KLINGON: Cultural Index 

I liked in one episode of TNG, the Klingon lawyer said the court was his battlefield and that court cases were viewed as battles. I imagine whatever profession a Klingon had they viewed it through the prism of warfare.

Nog confronting Martok was a pretty good example of gaining Klingon respect.

I have a personal theory that Klingon ridges is protection for a complex olfactory system leading from their big, beautiful noses. That a Klingon can smell if someone is going to attack, which makes them better warriors and can smell if someone lies, which makes them so assured of others intentions. I know it's not cannon. Just fun to think about

It was interesting to see how Martok viewed marriage: A war. He even relished in the idea that Sirella would, in the end, emerge victorious.

What does it say about me that I feel robbed that the Klingon have an Emperor but we'll never hear a "FOR THE EMPEROR!" battlecry

In a time after Star Trek TOS, and before TNG, a book was written by John M Ford titled "The Final Reflection". This book tells a tale during the early years of the Federation and Klingon Empire's interactions but from a Klingon point of view. Much of this books work on Klingon culture was used in later iterations of movie and TV Klingons. Give it a read if you can find a copy somewhere.

There once was a Klingon named Kahless, Who loved to shop for his boots at Payless, He started wearing gold chains, the Klingons thought him insane, So from then on, they called him Drip Bayless.

I like how for Worf's wedding he pushed Dr Bashir, a guy who always gets so uptight about "do no harm", so far he is ready to beat the stuffing out of him LOL

Glory and Honor to House Martok!

♫ And what is with the Klingons? Remember, in the day They looked like Puerto Ricans and they dressed in gold lamé Now they look like heavy metal rockers from the dead With leather pants, and frizzy hair, and lobsters on their heads ♫

It's Kahless, not Khaless... honorless petaQ!

I hope this doesn't seem narcissistic, but could you do a video on how humans are depicted in various fictional series such as Star Trek, Doctor Who, ect... ect. I think it's interesting to look at how we represent ourselves, for better or worse across various franchises.

We should forward this video to the writers of Star Trek: Discovery

I wonder if any Klingons learn about Samurai and Vikings and think “These people used to be interesting....what the he’ll happened”

they cant help but CLING-ON to there traditions^^

That cook is the voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy!!!! Damn even BGM got Honor!!!!

I would absolutely love a historical timeline video of the Klingons from you guys, and I really hope that there are enough people with this same line of thinking so that you guys may be persuaded to make it. :)

Competition between Scottie´s Haggis, with Worf´s Gagh! The great Star Trek cook off!!

God every time I see STD "Klingons" I die a little inside...

i have always thought that the Klingons were like the ancient Vikings

I think it would be cool to learn more about Kahless and then the non-warrior Klingons

expanding on how family and romantic relationships work could be interesting

I would love a cultural index exploring Klingon history with the races they subjugated, the Fek'Ihri and the Hur'q.

I just found this channel and I'm loving it! I would like to know more about the house structure and what keeps Klingon society from civil war.

Currently learning Klingon on Duolingo, after my copy of The Klingon Dictionary had been gathering dust for the last 25 years.

Essentially, they're Space Vikings. 😜

Sweet thanks guys the Klingons are hands down my favourite Species across sci-fi

Would you please make a playlist of all your ST cultural indexes? I'd love to just sit and let them play. Haha. They're so good!

I love you. Im so glad i found your channel

Wow that’s like Thor for Star Trek which is insane. 10/10 well done gentlemen well done indeed.

Klingons: We killed our gods. You haven't experienced Nietzsche until you've read him in the original Klingon.

Excellent video, guys! Just excellent!

Very good videos .... as a Star Trek fan for 30 plus years and as a Cultural Anthropologist I give you 3.9 out of 4 tribbles for this video! If you ever need a "scientist" to pepper your stuff with anthropological brickabrack it would do great honor to my house, but remember the 111 rule!

i really like ur vids... keep it up!

Subcribed keep it up and keep it correct, keep up the great job! Ty

love all your culture index videos on species from StarTrek, could you make one on Betazoids, please?

I would def like to see more of like Klingon life and religion. Their dating and marriage practices and their military and war like thinking. I know I’m probably going to drop but love the Klingon race very interesting

according to trek cannon there is one ancient race that has often came close to almost ending the klingons in the form of the Hurq. An ancient race that Invaded the Klingon homeworld over 1000 years ago in trek cannon

Klingon ships are always cool, Trek Yards do a good job explaning things, BUT you are very enjoyable to listen to voice clear and even tone, you did get some help on this on.

1:11 sombrero space ship!

Without the Klingons, there is no trek. They were there from the beginning. Quapla!

majQa'! I have always loved the thlIngan culture. I would love to see a more in-depth view detailing the pre-warp culture and how greatly they might have differed from their current warrior state. Qapla'!!

Thanks for vidz gratz on sub's

The bit about klingon asassins needing to follow honor codes makes "the undiscovered country" even more interesting? They were desperate as all hell trying to achieve their mission, It kinda goes to show just how devastatingand brutal a klingon could be without their strict codes

Man, I wish there were more Klingon videos. Like the life and mythos of Kahless, Klingon history and rites.

Klingon proverb, Great deeds, great songs.

Yes, please, a timeline video!

I'm glad we see a glimpse into Klingon civilization which shows depth, and well, "humanity". Klingons are not all "warriors", or space pirates, or maurauders, or blood thirsty mindless grunts. Yes, they DO have a culture dominated by the military as has happened with certain human societies on earth, and they are are also more aggressive in nature than humans, vulcans and andorians, but you cannot thrive as a civilization if every member of said civilization is a brute warrior. They too have artists, scientists, politicians, philosophers, writers, etc. You can't be a successful species that created one of the largest galactic powers in the quadrant by being a PURELY barbaric warlike race which is often (if not always) how they're depicted. Their toughness, their population numbers (they populate a lot more than people realize), their aggressive demeanor, their strength, all have served them well, but that isn't enough to maintain a galactic empire, even if for most of its history it was highly decentralized and fragmented between the great houses. In Star Trek, which is mostly in space, we often see the Klingons in only ONE aspect, which is their military, and fair enough, you see their space ships interacting with the Federation which are mostly fighting ships, and you see their warriors who command these ships. But Klingons are as smart as we are and as complex as we are. I literally applauded when I watched this scene the first time.

You should open up each off these with the Borg Species # classification. Would add a certain level of validation to these discussions of various species. I wonder if the Borg classify themselves similarly? As in perhaps species 0001?

These videos are so cool.

The Klingon nuance has waxed and waned so much over the series. I loved the contrast in TNG between Worf's fundamentalist ideals with the realities of Imperial politics and administration, perhaps best embodied by Gowron. Neither man's perspective was entirely dismissed or entirely embraced. The series, and audience, are naturally going to find Worf's perspective more sympathetic, and the integrity he shows and values is indeed attractive; but it's also true that Worf lived most of his life with the _idea_ of the Klingon Empire, not the day-to-day realities of it. He engaged with it as it suited _him_ rather than the leaders and political figures within it, who had to first make themselves relevant, by service or confrontation, to the existing context within the Empire.

Thank you Lt. Cmdr. Prahl

Second voice is WAAY to low ... :(

I love the Klingon!

This was excellent

What is that animated TOS battle at the beginning? I think I've seen it somewhere but I can't remember.

Nice

do a video on klingon haberdashery

I would love to see you guys do one on the Klingon timeline

I really want to hear more about the Klingons from you guys.

Love the channel. Hate having to ride the volume knob to balance your voices.

Klingons the Scotts of star trek.

Damn that one klingon woman is rocking the gun show.

So glad Klingons are being further developed by CBS "We start talking about new scripts, and I get really deep into the canon, and especially with Klingon history. And there's still lots of cool stuff coming [within] the cultural theater. [We’re trying to] make Klingons as real of a species as they can be, because growing up on all the different planets under the Empire - [look at how much cultural variation] we [humans] have for just a few thousand years, on one planet, how many different foods and architecture and designs that we have as culture on Earth. The Klingons growing up on multiple planets, of course, would have a very varied sort of aesthetic."Glenn Hetrick

Who builds Klingon ships if every one is a warrior? Who does the honor less work like cleaning the toilets? Who repairs the toilets? Who enforces their civil laws on the daily level? The main civilian Klingon I can think of is the chef cooking on DS9s promenade.

Success indeed!

I can confidently say that your videos and channel are leagues upon leagues better than Star Trek Discovery.

Interesting.

This was sweet 🎂

Q'apla! Klingons are the Viking/Samurai warriors in space! And prune juice is their version of the green spirit: Absynth! So, when Worf orders a prune juice, he's imbibing nothing short if a 90% shot... 😅

Great video. Thank you for not poisoning it with the Star Trek: Discovery abominations.

Do a video on the Goa'uld from stargate. They are my favorite sci fi bad guys

Vikings and Klingons are very simlar in culture , i bet that was by design .)

ship and there history how do klingons earn their ships names

How about a video about the Klingons relationships with other races and civilizations? The Federation and the Romulans are the most obvious ones to cover, but they have also had conflicts with and expressed opinions shared across their culture about Cardassians, The Founders, The Jem'Hadar, The Ferengi, The Breen and The Borg. If we take Star Trek Online into account, they've also had things to say about The Undine and The Iconians.

The court fell into a low murmur as Worf's address was cut short. A dark figure stood in the entrance to the Great Hall. "Forgive my late arrival." It spoke. Worf moved instinctively to the foot of the Chancellor's steps. The figure walked now towards him flanked by 6 Bek. 3 either side. The light illuminating a Male Klingon, but no one Worf recognised. Or was there something? "I had heard the Council had fallen into a sorry state. I was not prepared at just how far." The Klingon stopped a short distance before Worf. Far enough to take two steps before he could engage with a blade, but close enough. Worf sized this threat up and down. He WAS familiar, but... The other Klingon gave a single guttural command and his Entourage broke off and stood down and walked to the side. He then looked at Martok a churlish grin on his face. "A good thing then, that I have brought a gift that might alleviate the problems of the Council"

My biggest question regarding Klingons is how a warrior race gets its butt handed to them by almost every race in the series! Vulcans are strong for sure, but humans can handle a fight with them (old man Captain Picard got ambushed by 2 and won with the aid of an old woman). In Deep Space 9 a Trill Dax fights and wins against Klingons with Batleths, and even a skinny-armed Bajoran held her own when they tried to take Dax’s symbiont! Commander Sisko laughed when a Bajoran male punched him in the face, but a female took on and out Klingon mercs. I don’t know, sounds like they have one helluva hype man

It is crazy how the differences in the selective pressures in habitable biospheres the diversity is exclusively foreheads noses ears eyebrows and skintone. It is almost like it is actually dictated by the limitations in production costs for costume design.

Next aspect of Klingons: using any particular screen shot something less than 4 times in a given vid

I'm intrigued by Klingon politics. For example, how does a person become Governor of a planet in the Empire? What type of government positions can a member of the Klingon High Council hold simultaneously? For example, as a Member of the Council and/or Klingon General and Governor? What type of central command structure is there for the Empire? Do the individual Houses have their own military? If the Empire, as a whole, has a military and each of the 24 houses have a force, then there are at least 25 branches for their Defense forces

October 2017: 10k subscribers. October 2020: nearing 98k subscribers. Not a bad track record, Rick.

I'd be interested in more about the structure of Klingon Government. 1) What type of actions must a Chancellor have the support of a majority of the Council before it goes into effect? What type of actions can The High Council do to override the decisions of the Chancellor? 2) How similar or different is the office of Chancellor of the Empire to that of President of the United States? 3) what is the command structure for their Fleet?

11:54 Yep, the Hurq are totally gone. They won't be coming back. Nope. Mark Hale won't be running into them at some point in STO.

We need some info on hybrids... Half Klingon half..... Human Vulcan (I think that this would be the most ruthless hybrid) Romulan (highly emotional but nonetheless brutal) Borg? (Well not a hybrid, but their ruthlessness added to the consensus would make them rather wanton to conflict, even more than average)

3 of the boys were ambitious.

You should definitely do a video on why they have ridges, including the extra censory receptors the Discovery Klingons have in their ridges.

I always reckoned the physical differences between TOS and later were because the KE was a polyglot, multi-species empire just like the UFP.

Worf and Riker are like brothers 👍 👍

I would definitely like to see an entire history of the Klingons who were they before warp technology who were the herc why do they have ridges and then why did The Ridges simply go away for a little bit until later on.

Can you do a cultural index covering the Yautja, the alien race in Predator?

One few empires to have the role of Emporer as a cerimonial

6:15 oh I seee. Darmok and Jalad

10 thousand subs 4 years ago; Now 117 thousand.

I would love to know the Klingon take on Golf .

Do Nietzcheans from Andromeda

YEEAAAAA

NEED A BORG ONE!

How does Klingon law work? It is very different and you see it evolve between Enterprise TOS and TNG eras.

Who would win in a war Kilngons or Sontarans?

Glory and honor to the House of Grilka!