Most intellectual Klingons?

[Lt. Tyler]

Which group of Klingons would you people say are the most intelligent, rational and sophisticated klingons in the Star Trek universes? Would it be TOS klingons? Would it be the klingons of the movie era and TNG-DS9-VOY? Would it be John M. Ford's Klingons of Star Trek literature? I'd love to get opinions. Thanks!

 

[Riker'sMailbox]

Disclaimer: just started TOS and no Klingons so far, have not seen the movies or read books either.

I think the DS9 Klingons were the most intellectual, but I think that has less to do with the writers writing them as intellectuals and more with the writers allowing us to see more than just warrior culture.

As for the most intellectual individual Klingon, that would be the Klingon doc in ENT that was trying to treat the augment virus sufferers, imo.

 

[The Wormhole]

TOS Klingons were definitely the most cerebral. Though DS9 for some reason had to turn Kor into a senile drunk, he really was a compelling character in Errand of Mercy.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Antaak and Kolos from Enterprise. Dr. Kurak from TNG. Mara from TOS. L'Rell and/or the House of Mo'Kai must be the greatest medical minds in the galaxy.

K'Ehleyr and B'Elanna were pretty smart, although they were hybrids, so who knows where that came from.

 

[Paradise City]

Gorkon and Chang are the two names that spring to my mind. Martok had a pretty refined understanding of things. Worf is an astute political operative.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Late DS9 Worf was definitely a force to be reckoned with. Early TNG Worf seemed to have serious mental lapses. Somehow, they meld seamlessly in the middle.

 

[Lt. Tyler]

Does anyone remember the Q episode in the first season of TNG where Riker gets the Q powers and makes that female klingon appear and Worf says "She's from a world now alien to me". I thought that was very interesting and does not mesh with the later Worf and his semi close affiliation with his klingon home world.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Klingon who interrogated Nero from the deleted scenes in ST'09. Face hidden by a helmet. Loved that voice.

 

[thribs]

The one in Endgame who invented time travel.

 

[Herbert]

Does anyone remember the Q episode in the first season of TNG where Riker gets the Q powers and makes that female klingon appear and Worf says "She's from a world now alien to me". I thought that was very interesting and does not mesh with the later Worf and his semi close affiliation with his klingon home world.

It is an interesting line but then again the characters weren't even close to being fleshed out in season one.

 

[JoeZhang]

Does anyone remember the Q episode in the first season of TNG where Riker gets the Q powers and makes that female klingon appear and Worf says "She's from a world now alien to me". I thought that was very interesting and does not mesh with the later Worf and his semi close affiliation with his klingon home world.

At that point, the Klingons are part of the federation and Worf's backstory is fluid to say the least.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

In TNG we saw a Klingon scientist. In DS9 Grilka was very intelligent, and the prosecutor in Rules of Engagement was quite intellectual in his understanding that the chance to be the victim was a rare one that would help them in the war.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Kang

 

[johnnybear]

Kang definitely! Kor too! Koloth was more for comedy relief and Kras was just a cowardly snake who killed one of the Capellans just to get the weapon without any fuss!
JB

 

[Kor]

Kor, of course.

Kor

 

[Abi Smith]

The Klingon Atticus Finch, Colonel Worf from The Undiscovered Country.

 

[thribs]

The Klingon Atticus Finch, Colonel Worf from The Undiscovered Country.

But he lost. Wasn’t a very good lawyer.
Should have got Denny Crane

 

[Kor]

But he lost. Wasn’t a very good lawyer.
Should have got Denny Crane

It was a show trial. He would have lost no matter what.

Kor

 

[FormerLurker]

Kras was just a cowardly snake

Kras was just...crass.

 

[johnnybear]

He was the Klingon with the most human DNA I'm guessing! Where else do we ever meet such a yellow Klingon?
JB