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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 78 points 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Only about 100 years.

[-] ahornsirup@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 4 points 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

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

[-] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

This is fantastic

[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 22 points 10 months ago

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

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

Oh fuck I forgot about the Klingon double dick

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

If you fight with honor then you deserve respect from everyone

[-] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

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

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 months ago

Can't be worse than young Sheldon

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 10 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 10 months ago

Is that a Klingon walking past the ad?

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 10 months ago

I love this a lot.

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 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 10 months ago

But seriously FUCK YOU IF YOU'RE A TRIBBLE!

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