My favourite part of DS9 was when the Cardassian citizens finally got tired of living in a decaying power under military dictatorship and ousted them to form a civilian government, and were promptly invaded by the Klingons who said they'd been taken over by Changelings.
The same Klingons who espouse honour and courage in everything they do, but fly cloaked ships, massacre civilians, and live under a blatantly corrupt oligarchy.
I think the key to understanding the Klingons in TNG and DS9 is understanding that without a definitive external enemy the Klingon Empire starts devouring itself - the Klingons devolve into internal strife and petty piracy. Remember that while Star Trek canon can be fairly squishy (not even counting whatever bullshit nu-Trek is doing), peace between the Federation and the Klingons was imposed by god-like aliens (how long that mandatory peace lasted is up for debate). You could make the argument that the Klingon Empire, which was presented as a fairly unified structure in TOS, started to fall apart when they could no longer fight the Federation.
My favourite part of DS9 was when the Cardassian citizens finally got tired of living in a decaying power under military dictatorship and ousted them to form a civilian government, and were promptly invaded by the Klingons who said they'd been taken over by Changelings.
The same Klingons who espouse honour and courage in everything they do, but fly cloaked ships, massacre civilians, and live under a blatantly corrupt oligarchy.
Klingons are Americans.
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I think the key to understanding the Klingons in TNG and DS9 is understanding that without a definitive external enemy the Klingon Empire starts devouring itself - the Klingons devolve into internal strife and petty piracy. Remember that while Star Trek canon can be fairly squishy (not even counting whatever bullshit nu-Trek is doing), peace between the Federation and the Klingons was imposed by god-like aliens (how long that mandatory peace lasted is up for debate). You could make the argument that the Klingon Empire, which was presented as a fairly unified structure in TOS, started to fall apart when they could no longer fight the Federation.
They do talk sometimes about how the Klingons have enslaved a ton of worlds, but don't really show it
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