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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 78 points 5 months ago

You know, Klingons, for all the cheese they got saddled with over the decades, were sometimes given some truly amazing moments like that one. They're this hyper macho, warrior driven and hide-bound culture, but they value friendship in a beautiful way. They really get loyalty to a friend in a way that no other in-universe culture does.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months ago

Also, Klingon men and women are both warriors and either can go to Stovokor if they have an honorable death.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 13 points 5 months ago

Yeah but women can't head Klingon houses save for special circumstances

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

And yet there was a woman running the empire in Discovery. 🤷‍♂️

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 months ago

Hundreds of years passed between Discovery and DS9, cultures evolve and not always in a good way.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Only about 100 years.

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago

Whoops, true. I somehow had it mentally placed closer to Enterprise than TOS.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Klingons are like those ancient warrior tribes that seemed barbaric at surface level when historians first studied them, but were found to be a lot more rooted in community, duty and survival once you get to know their ways. They are a product of surviving in the environment they did

[-] Tammo-Korsai@kbin.social 77 points 5 months ago

They also grasp mental health better than people might think. Such as Martok and Worf watching Garak face his claustrophobia in order to save them:

Martok: There is no greater enemy than one's own fears.
Worf: It takes a brave man to face them.

And this admiration is coming from people who consider the Cardassians to be bitter enemies, which is even more astounding given how devious and dishonourable Garak can be.

[-] Infynis@midwest.social 10 points 5 months ago

To be fair though, both Worf and Martok are among the best Klingons. Somehow, I don't think Duras, or even Gowron, would have felt the same

[-] armus@startrek.website 67 points 5 months ago

How do non-binary Klingons defeat their enemies? They slash them

[-] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

This is fantastic

[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

It took me way too long to get that...

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah, Klingons can get it! Especially those Duras sisters.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago

"he's only got ONE? And it's TINY!?"

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Oh fuck I forgot about the Klingon double dick

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

i'm still convinced they simply have two urethrae rather than two dicks, which seems impractical. two urethrae would explain the double-stream, and, especially, why they were parallell/pointing the same direction. if a klingon had two dicks, the two pee streams would be going in two seperate directions, and that's not what we saw in the episode.

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

Why was the pee stream in an episode? What are they putting in Star Trek now?! WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE???

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Look! We're edgy now! They just did drugs, and now there's a klingon peeing!"

-- Kutzman, probably

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It was in an episode of the first season of Discovery, which I pretend mostly didn't happen and the show actually started with season 2.

[-] Blackout@kbin.social 17 points 5 months ago

If you fight with honor then you deserve respect from everyone

[-] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

It's wholesome, but it's also got a little too much "Geico caveman" energy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

Remember when they tried to turn those ads into a sitcom and it crashed and burned?

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Remember being surprised when somebody failed trying to stretch a commercial that was different takes on a single punchline into a sitcom?

Me neither.

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Can't be worse than young Sheldon

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I don't know. I didn't watch it because why why would I watch a TV show based on an insurance commercial?

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

Is that a Klingon walking past the ad?

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 5 months ago

I love this a lot.

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I love his shit eating grin when the other Klingon sees Jadzia.

Don't you remember the great Kurzon Dax?!

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

But seriously FUCK YOU IF YOU'RE A TRIBBLE!

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