Klingon Warriors

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Honour

The life of a Klingon Warrior is hard and dangerous.  Maltz was the only member of Commander Kruge's crew to survive the Klingon attack on the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 in orbit around the Genesis planet.  A Klingon's life is not only threatened by his enemies.  During his service under Kruge, it would have been Maltz's duty to try and kill his superior officer.

Other members of the crew were killed by Kruge for petty offences.  However, Maltz's eventual capture may have brought dishonor upon him, because it deprived him of a glorious death in battle.

The Klingons are a proud warrior race, and conflict is at the heart of their culture.

The war with the Federation during the 23rd century was fierce and bloody confrontational, and there were many who bitterly apposed the Khitomer accords which finally brought hostilities to an end.

An even bloodier scenario was encountered by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-C - the catalyst for the peace treaties - when it journeyed through the temporal rift and into an alternate world where the Klingons and Federation were still engaged in a disastrous war.

 Klingon Honour 

The legendary Sword of Kahless, the first Bat'leth, embodies many tenets of Klingon honour; legends speak of its mystical power.

The Klingon culture is based on a complex system of duty, honour and fealty; this intricate web of oaths and obligations holds the warrior ethic of the Klingon Empire together, in the face of a harsh universe.

Maintaining honour is a difficult thing, of which not all Klingons are capable.  Some ignominious individuals are protected, so that appearance of honour is maintained.

The most infamous case is Worf's discommendation in 2366, which protected the House of Duras and the Klingon High Council, despite a hideous act of betrayal by Duras's father, 20 years before.

Had the truth been revealed, the Klingon way of life would likely to crumbled, and the empire may have fallen.  Worf did not, however damage his own honour through such a deception.  As Kahless once said "Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat."

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