Have you ever noticed that in Star Trek one never sees a Klingon geek? With few exceptions, somehow every member of the race appears to be an angry stupid warrior. These Klingons couldn’t build a starship to save their lives, so there are obviously Klingon engineers, computer programmers, and all varieties of other geeks.
I envision a new Star Trek series entitled Klingons: The IT Crowd which follows the exploits of the IT department of a Klingon starship. Always getting their achievements ignored, they spend their time playing board games and asking if the problem was solved by turning the device off and on again.
For exmaple, as a prank, the IT crew modifies the transporter to make a warriors head materialize backwards. His compatriate, ever the typical Klingon idiot, tries to twist it back to its correct position thus breaking his neck and killing him. Hilarity ensues.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:06 am
While the Klingons are, by nature, warriors, they are not necessarily stupid. It isn’t like the jocks that used to beat you up in high school; Klingons are predatory in genetics, not just traditions. Case in point: in the TNG episodes “Birthright” (parts 1 and 2), Worf finds a camp of Klingons who had been taken prisoner and not killed in battle (25 years before) as everyone thought. Because of honor and all that stuff, they even told their children that they had moved to this isolated place to escape the war. The youngins were thusly unfamiliar with Klingon traditions, weapons, etc.
In these episodes, Worf teaches them and eventually takes one young man on a hunting trip, which awakens in him the need to hunt, the ability to smell out prey, and the rush that comes from battle, albeit a hunt and not a war. From this, we see that the Klingons as a race are predators; it has nothing to do with their levels of intelligence.