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Humanoid
warrior race, originally from the planet Qo'noS. A proud, tradition-bound
people who value honor, the aggressive Klingon culture has made them a military
power to be respected and feared. In Klingon society, the death of a warrior
is not mourned, especially a warrior who has died honorably, as in battle
or the line of duty. In such cases, the survivors celebrate the freeing
of the spirit. Klingons believe in an afterlife but there is no burial ceremony.
They dispose of the body in the most efficient means possible. Klingon tradition
holds that the son of a Klingon is a man the day he can first hold a blade.
Another Klingon ritual is the R'uustai, or bonding ceremony, in which two
individuals join families, becoming brothers and sisters. The Klingon body
incorporates multiple redundancies for nearly all vital bodily functions.
This characteristic, known as brak'lul, gives Klingon warriors enormous
resiliency in battle. Despite the considerable sophistication of Klingon
technology, significant gaps exist in Klingon medical science, in part due
to cultural biases that injured warriors should be left to die or to carry
out the Hegh'bat. Klingons have no tear ducts. Klingon blood is a lavender-colored
fluid and also red-colored.
