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Klingon scientists ?
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I do not believe so, since the Enterprise was hunting the Bird of Prey in a general area, and I'm not any character said they were constantly pursuing at warp.
Then they should have smoked the Romulans and cut them off at the pass.
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Cut them off at the pass? I detest that cliche - bang!
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(Even before seeing your name and avatar, I was reading that while imagining Michael Ansara's voice. He was Barbara Eden's hubby. Not sure who the luckier one was...
Wait, let me drink my four cups of coffee - it's too early for me to dredge up silly jokes yet. 
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Per Star Fleet Battles, the D7 has half the labs of the Enterprise.
The D7 is also a smaller ship, though...
Which sort of fits the idea the Klingons were an analog for the Soviets. The Klingon culture had scientists, they just spent more focus elsewhere.
The D7 was supposed to be their equivalent of the Constitution Class.
Is that in the Writer's Guide somewhere? (not a challenge, just curiosity!
)When you say equivalent, do you mean in terms of class or function?
Function. But both? The D7 seems to be the Klingon heavy cruiser in the TOS era.
But function first and foremost. Similar mission profile.
Is that in the Writer's Guide somewhere? (not a challenge, just curiosity!
Star Fleet Battles, mainly. P
I like to think that perhaps the Klingons had another type of vessel in service prior to Elaan of Troyius and the one that ghosted the Enterprise in that episode was the first one that the crew had ever encountered at that time, before at least they went away and changed the other Klingon episodes with the new effects! 
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I hate to say it but the science, at least part of it would have to be destroying life as well as preserving it. They might have a fish in a tank but are preforming vivisection on some poor human they picked up. I wouldn't that as being the only things a science officer or two would be doing. Controlling a situation, controlling a galaxy, what have you, would have to take an understanding of the basic biology and sadly, how to destroy it.
Nice that they never figured out how to off the Tribble.
Nice that they never figured out how to off the Tribble.
Totally agree. Such an exploitative and extremely pragmatic society would view science as a means to an end.
Identifying minerals, energy sources and exploitable food species.
And some astrophysics to map and identify the solar system's stability etc. After all, you don't want to have a comet smash into your new colony - do you??
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I'd expect Klingon society to have scientists. Even if only to maintain their tech base over generations and teach the next generation, and not start lagging behind other species (even if you'd buy new technological innovation from other species, you'll still need the knowledge to maintain/repair them, which wouldn't require just engineering skills but also knowledge of the scientific principles behind them. There's a reason that in our world, many engineers have a fairly solid grounding in science, too, even if they're not scientists themselves).
The Klingon Kang's own wife was a science officer aboard his vessel (in TOS S3 "Day of the Dove").
Given that one of their top warriors and Starship commanders saw enough worth in a scientist to marry one, (and in the end she was much like Spock once presented with cold hard facts); I would posit that scientists not only existed in the Klingon Empire, but some probably held high positions in both the military and the political spectrum of the Empire - at least in the TOS era.
It started with the TOS feature films and continued into TNG - where Klingons suddenly didn't gives a damn about the condition of their ships, scientific or technological advancement - and pretty much became knuckle dragging brutes who just wanted to fight above all else. And in my opinion did they depiction of the race a big disservice.
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And as the Star Trek franchise has moved forward in recent years, all subsequent films and episodes have tried direct con the Klingon Empire to conform more with the TNG version than the original Klingons depicted in the TOS era and the original series.
Given that one of their top warriors and Starship commanders saw enough worth in a scientist to marry one, (and in the end she was much like Spock once presented with cold hard facts); I would posit that scientists not only existed in the Klingon Empire, but some probably held high positions in both the military and the political spectrum of the Empire - at least in the TOS era.
It started with the TOS feature films and continued into TNG - where Klingons suddenly didn't gives a damn about the condition of their ships, scientific or technological advancement - and pretty much became knuckle dragging brutes who just wanted to fight above all else. And in my opinion did they depiction of the race a big disservice.
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And as the Star Trek franchise has moved forward in recent years, all subsequent films and episodes have tried direct con the Klingon Empire to conform more with the TNG version than the original Klingons depicted in the TOS era and the original series.
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The original Klingons were brave, aggressive, warlike, territorial, sneaky, cowardly and clever! Like humans but with a gravy skin and heavy brow! (Some of them anyway) The newer versions were just all honour, death, destroy this and that and boring! But still better than the conker heads of that other reality!
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But they did...it took time travel to bring them back.
In Deep Space Nine they stated that the Klingons had hunted down every last Tribble in the galaxy until that episode where they went back to Space Station K-7!!! Surely that must have saved Cyrano Jones so much time off his sentence of collecting them all up? 
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