Spoilers The Klingon government in this series

[The Overlord]

I am wondering about something, do the Klingons have a government in this series? In the later TOS era and TNG, it was established that the Klingons are rued by a High Council, which is made up of representatives of all the great Houses in the Empire and the head of the Council is the Chancellor. We do not see a Klingon Chancellor in Discovery so far and it seems like the Klingon Houses do whatever they feel like with no governing body to mediate their actions.

T'Kmuva seems to be able to become defacto leader of the Empire because he comes up with the idea to attack the Federation and due to his cloaking tech. After he dies, Kol is able to become defacto leader of the Klingon Empire, by taking credit for T'Kmuva's accomplishments and taking his cloaking tech for himself. After he dies, the Klingon Houses seem to just do whatever they want, with no unifying leader.

So is there no High Council or Chancellor in this era, is the Klingon Empire so fractured that those things do not exist at this time?

 

[The Wormhole]

So is there no High Council or Chancellor in this era, is the Klingon Empire so fractured that those things do not exist at this time?

Apparently

 

[Hythlodeus]

So is there no High Council or Chancellor in this era, is the Klingon Empire so fractured that those things do not exist at this time?

it doesn't, hence T'Kuvma's attempt to reunite the 24 Houses hence the whole f$/&"ing plot of DISCO

 

[The Overlord]

it doesn't, hence T'Kuvma's attempt to reunite the 24 Houses hence the whole f$/&"ing plot of DISCO

But that begs the question, what happened to those things, because they seemed to have existed in the Enterprise era and how did they come back by Star Trek 6?

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/M'Rek

 

[Tim Thomason]

My guess is there is no Chancellor, or the Houses have elected an ineffectual or powerless one. It could be an interregnum where the Chancellor died some years back (maybe even M'Rek 100 years ago), and the 24 High Council Houses don't want to give up any of the power they've obtained in the interim. This is the same Council, that, 200 years ago, deposed the Emperor and last of Kahless's line.

They are still having growing pains, but I'm guessing that losing this war a few hours from now will convince them that a single, focused army is better than 24 meandering groups. Whoever becomes Chancellor next will probably be the first powerful Chancellor in a long time (maybe ever).

 

[Timo]

We see a Council Chamber of sorts in the finale, and no doubt there's a Chancellor slouching on a throne somewhere and hoping nobody will bother to stab him for being such an inoffensive piece of decoration.

The Chamber is captivated by a demagogue. The six or so Houses that agreed to stay with T'Kumva at the Binaries were enthralled by one, too. Probably par for the course, and irrelevant to the Klingon forms of governance as such. Klingons don't need to be ruled except in certain times of crisis, and our two mad Kahlessians here got two such crises whipped up: a messy little war, and a bomb beneath the feet of the Councilmen. The first gambit didn't work. It remains to be seen whether the second one will.

Perhaps the next Chancellor will be Tyler, prompting all proud Klingon warriors to ask their facestylist for a smooth forehead and odd facial hair?

Timo Saloniemi