By Joshua Tyler
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The fourth episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy dropped a bombshell revelation: The Klingon homeworld has been destroyed in an accident, and almost all of the Klingons are useless. Followers of the sequence and the Klingons specifically will know which means that not solely are the Klingons useless, they’ve additionally been despatched to hell.
Klingons Consider In A Very Particular Afterlife
As established over many years of creating this alien race, notably via the eyes of Worf (who has been in additional Star Trek episodes than every other character), the Klingons have a really particular set of beliefs across the idea of dying. For Klingons, dying is a take a look at, not an ending. What issues isn’t that you die, however how.
Klingons who die effectively find yourself of their afterlife, a spot known as Sto-Vo-Kor. Solely those that die with honor, ideally as warriors, are welcomed into the good corridor to battle, feast, and sing with Kahless (a reputation Starfleet Academy pronounces prefer it’s being stated by a strangled fish) and the honored useless.
A Klingon who dies in another means goes to Gre’thor. Gre’thor is the Klingon underworlddominated by Fek’lhr, a demonic determine who punishes the dishonored. It’s a place of everlasting struggling, the place cowardice, betrayal, or an unworthy dying is paid for eternally.
In different phrases, should you don’t die as a warrior, you go to Klingon hell. You already know what’s not dying as a warrior? Dying in a silly accident the place your planet blows up.
An Unintentional Dying Is The Most Horrible Factor You Can Do To A Klingon
The worst factor that might ever occur to the Klingons, worse than something you may ever presumably think about, is the complete race being worn out by an accident. And that’s what Star Trek: Starfleet Academy simply did to almost each single Klingon in existence.
For Klingons, it’s a destiny so horrific that had they recognized about it prematurely, the complete race would have probably mass-suicided quite than permit their descendants to face this insulting and horrible dishonor. That’s not hyperbole; in conditions like this, Klingons normally do the Hegh’bat ritual, which is principally assisted suicide.
In Klingon perception, intent issues greater than the act itself. Rituals like Hegh’bat are thought of honorable deaths when the warrior’s continued existence would convey dishonor. And creating descendants who will dishonor the complete Klingon race positively qualifies. Worf, Martok, Kor, and each different Klingon who has ever lived would have positively taken the Hegh’bat to keep away from this destiny for his or her race.
Klingons Aren’t The Solely Ones In Hell
Not one of the writers of reveals like Star Trek: Deep House 9 or Star Trek: Enterprise would have ever completed one thing like this to the Klingons. They wouldn’t have completed it as a result of they understood the advanced lore behind the race of aliens they’d created. Additional, they’d know that particulars like this are the principle purpose the Klingons are so uniquely beloved and likewise generally hated, amongst the entire many Trek creations.
The writers (assuming it’s not simply ChatGPT) of Starfleet Academy not solely don’t care about this stuff, they don’t know them. Which implies the Klingons aren’t the one ones in hell now, so is each Star Trek fan who’s been watching and loving the franchise for greater than 5 minutes.
How Star Trek Followers Can Give Klingons The Honorable Dying They Deserve
Whereas watching “Vox in Excelso”, the Starfleet Academy episode the place the Klingons are despatched to everlasting torment off-camera, I decided of their reminiscence. I’ll do what they weren’t allowed to do, and finish my lifelong Star Trek relationship, with honor.
Midway via the episode, I exited Starfleet Academy on my Paramount+ app, deleted it from my tv, and unsubscribed from the community. You are able to do the identical. Do it for Worf. For Martok. For Kor. For Koloth. For Kang. For crazy-eyed Gowron. For Dax. For Grilka and the Home of Quark!
It’s higher to die as a warrior than stay as a slop eater.