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Spoilers The Kahless clone from "Rightful Heir" might be the real Kahless

They've definitely opened an unneeded can of worms with the time crystals.
The whole thing raises questions about the Klingon scientist in Endgame who built the time machine Janeway stole. Seems odd to go through such a song and dance when there's a monastery full of time crystals on hand.
Since I don't think Worf's childhood vision of Kahless and the clone's knowledge of the vision was ever explained on screen, I wonder if the time crystals are involved? I think this would be packing way too much narrative importance into one mcguffin, but it's possible if the crystals have the ability to send visions to the past they may be how the images of the 7 red bursts were sent to Spock.
Okay, I'll admit, I thought the same thing.
 
The whole thing raises questions about the Klingon scientist in Endgame who built the time machine Janeway stole. Seems odd to go through such a song and dance when there's a monastery full of time crystals on hand.

Also about what shifted in the Empire that caused them to give up on their seeming ban on time travel.
 
Also about what shifted in the Empire that caused them to give up on their seeming ban on time travel.
It might have ended because they might have succeeded. We know they were working on a timesuit at the same time as Mrs. Burnham. Their time traveler might be the source of the signals.

The whole thing is kind of a can of worms and cool possibilities, depending on how one looks at it.
 
Borrowing from the greats is always a winning formula, regardless of the league. With the Klingons now the keepers of the dark secrets of time, and refusing to use them lest X, we're into Harry Potter territory in making them the true heroes of the universe, the Severus Snapes of the galaxy. Of course they're then entitled to dark looks, seemingly evil and spiteful actions, and eldritch mutterings.

Meanwhile, the less heroic leads are free to try their hand at being Frodo Baggins...

Timo Saloniemi
 
Boreth-Kahless is the original Kahless. In that, he was created by the monks via cloning (as admitted in the episode), but at some point after the Dominion War, he traveled to the ancient past and created the Empire. Then told everyone to meet up with him on Boreth, the time crystal planet.

Then, much later, the monks on Boreth took a hair from the long-gone ancient Kahless and cloned him...
 
Boreth-Kahless is the original Kahless. In that, he was created by the monks via cloning (as admitted in the episode), but at some point after the Dominion War, he traveled to the ancient past and created the Empire. Then told everyone to meet up with him on Boreth, the time crystal planet.

Then, much later, the monks on Boreth took a hair from the long-gone ancient Kahless and cloned him...
So the Kahless is an ontological paradox, who has no actual origin. Like Kirk's glasses.

Ironically, what you describe probably would actually make him supernatural, as he literally came from nowhere.

Also, if the truth came out the entire Klingon religon would be revealed as a sham, as Kahless was just re-enacting things (fighting Molor) that he already knew he would win. Easy to be brave in those circumstances.
 
The Kahless Clone failed to capture the imagination of the legend, needs more work and development to make the character interesting. DISCO could bring the character back in attempt to capture the imagination.
 
If someone managed to clone Jesus, or a Semitic man from that period somehow determined to most probably be the historical Jesus, and then brainwashed the clone into believing himself to be Jesus, would we make him the ceremonial King of Israel? Even if he displayed no supernatural powers?

Just a thought I had. Might be too controversial to explore.
 
So the Kahless is an ontological paradox, who has no actual origin. Like Kirk's glasses.

Ironically, what you describe probably would actually make him supernatural, as he literally came from nowhere.

Also, if the truth came out the entire Klingon religon would be revealed as a sham, as Kahless was just re-enacting things (fighting Molor) that he already knew he would win. Easy to be brave in those circumstances.

If I want that I'll stick to the original, its a lot more fun parthonogetically speaking. Thank you, All You Zombies...

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