What attracted you to "the Klingon way of life"?

[Ambassador Lady K'Zin]

posted on 2-9-2003 at 08:43 AM

I've started a new thread for this side-topic...

Since I see this side-topic developing into a potentially lengthy discussion, I've established a new thread specifically to discuss the ancient art of Mok'bara. It can be found here:

http://klingon.org/smboard/index.php/topic,34

That way, this thread can continue to stay on it's original direction, and yet anyone interested in Mok'bara has a specific place to ask questions or to post more information about it, OK? Thanks for your cooperation on this one...

[qelIy]

posted on 2-9-2003 at 08:41 PM

getting back to the original question, what attracted me to the Klingon way of life?
i was attracted by the language. where i live i don't have access to the various Star Trek tv series. after learning tlhIngan Hol i have been surfing around trying to learn more about Klingons.

[LordMaul]

posted on 2-17-2003 at 07:02 AM

I'm becoming a Klingon...

What attracts me to the Klingon life...i guess it their tough a*s outlook on life, myself i'm a Hindu and belief in the Swami' s and Yogi's of India but i find that Religious (any religon whether it be Christianity or Judaism) to make you weak i mean it's good to Love all Serve all like my swami Sai Baba says or as Christ said to "Love they neighbor as they self" but people are so complicated it 's hard to trust people.

Life is a battle whether it's a battle for your studies finding a great job or just going to your job paying your bills or trying to stay in shape and control your hunger pains...we live in a world where we are bombarded of perfect bodies yet live in a society of mass fast food and desk jobs..to me i've always struggled with my weight and self-esteem i like the klingon attitude of dealing with lifes difficulties taking shape of my body i'm enrolling in Boxing and fencing classes to keep my mind and body sharp.

Whenever i can't go to a class or play sports and i'm not in the mood to go to the gym or go on a treadmill i scream "I am a klingon!" Klingons are not weak and lazy and it gives me the energy to run an hour on the treadmill! that what attracts me to the klingon way !!

K'apla everyone ! Does anyone else feel like this ?

[qelIy]

posted on 2-26-2003 at 04:54 PM

there is more to my story. it was suggested that i add to it. i suppose it is kind of strange. i was hired to sing some really obnoxiously sappy tunes. while playing around with the lyrics during rehearsals i started singing about klingons. (the first song was the klingon from ipanema - about revolution and romance interfering with military discipline

while looking in the internet for appropriate vocabulary to make the lyrics authentic i discovered that people actually speak klingon. i ordered tkd, learned klingon and started singing tlhIngan Hol lyrics.

[SheDragon]

posted on 2-27-2003 at 04:27 PM

Greetings all,
I too am a newbie in the group, but not to admiration of the Klingon race. Being of an advanced age and a Trekkie since the beginning of the original show, I have always identified with the Klingon in the various Trek incarnations. My physical size (almost 6' and over 200) for a female is fairly normal for a Klingon and my long time interest in learning and teaching the Korean martial art of taekwondo just adds to my surety that there must be Klingon in my ancestry somewhere. I have not chosen a name yet since I haven't studied the language enough to make an intelligent choice. I look forward to using this forum to pick up information, contacts and links of good quality. I am in the process of making a headpiece and am something of a seamstress so costuming shouldn't be a problem. I think the most important part of your appearance is in attitude anyway and that I have had for years.

SheDragon (for now)

[qaS]

posted on 5-29-2003 at 07:43 PM

tlhIngan jIH

I, like many others, started as a pj-wearin' feddy fan. Kirk was my idol, and Klingons were dull-witted meatheads who liked to break stuff....and then there was General Chang. General Chang, for me, was everything I *wanted* to see a Klingon be: ruthless, cold, and yet intellectual, philosophical...Chang was what i was waiting for, and he upped the coolness-bar for all of Kling-dom like only two others (Kor and Martok) have. Chang is the reason *I* am Klingon. We're not just warriors, we're artists as well.

[qurgh]

posted on 5-29-2003 at 08:33 PM

Well said. I think General Chang is a good example of a "smart warrior". Yes, he's a solider, but he thinks with his head and is very educated. I would much rather have a discussion with him than talk to a lot of these belching Klingons that seem to be around these days.

Klingons are all artists. Some have chosen the art of war, some the art of science, some the art of language, some the.. you get the point. It's all art, it's not blindly following along like a targh on a rope.

Klingons are passionate people, they is passion in everything they do. They aren't mindless gibbering morons....

[kmtal]

posted on 8-17-2003 at 11:05 PM

I'm intrigued Sum(by) the Klingon language

[qoSagh]

I am glad that I decided to stop lurking this morning...lol

As for what brought me to Klingon Fandom, hmmmm interesting question. My first foray into organized fan clubs was a Doctor Who club. I met some great people there, but all the club did was sit around and talk. I didn't know what was missing but I knew something was. I met a firend who was in a Feddie club, ehich I almost joined but never did, mostly because all they did was sit around and talk, this time over meals. I also had begun to notice the cliques and factions that form in fandom and this didn't seem right in the Doctor Who or Federation themes.

I had grown up on sydicated TOS and saturday morning animated Trek. I had Star Trek clothing a a kid, but so did a lot of people. I don't remember really wanting this a much as having it. My brothers had all the models and some really ancient toys that would be worth alot right now if we hadn't played with them.

After I got out of High School and started working, I ended up with a long weekend off after Thanksgiving and decided to go to New York for the annual Creation Thanksgiving Convention. My family didn't really understand this but put up with it. Two things happened that weekend. I got my first costume/uniform as an adult (a Starfleet TOS era Class A tunic, in red, which I still have and bought just to wear with my kilt). And I joined the first Klingon Club that I have been in.

I had seen Klingons at other conventions, and I always thought they were cool. At this convention Klingons were working as security and pretty much seemed to enjoy being in charge of the herd. I found two Klingon clubs that day, one that had a table set up to recruit members and one that had set up a small conference room as a makeshift High Council chamber. I eneded up joining the one with the room. I almost walked out that first night when the club meeting became almost violent. Then one of the older members (who became a life long friend, and just passed away last October) told me to sit and watch for a minute. What I had seen with fist pounding and throwing things off of tables, was role playing. Live physical role playing. These people were not just dressing like Klingons they were being Klingons. I was hooked. After this meeting everyone went out to eat together. It was although it pre-dated Redemption, the living embodiment of tonioght we Drink for tomorrow we may die.

Over the years I have made many friends through Klindom, I even married one of them. Although neither of us is as active in fandom as we once were, we just had our 10th aniversary. I have often used Klindom as an escape from reality in the sense that at work I often see mans inhumanity to man. Sometimes it is nice to step into a world g0verned by honor, loyalty & strength. A human beating up a weaker Human is wrong. A Klingon Beating up a weaker Klingon is expected.

Of course computers were not what they are now, when I became Klingon, so this may be an unfair comparison. I do however see the irony in my distaste of clubs that just sit arround and talk, and the fact that most of my recent Klingon activities entail sitting arround and posting on message boards.  

[vlodnak]

Where to begin?

I am very attracted to their sense of honor and their very CLEAR view of right and wrong.

I am also a Klingon Language student, and am involved in helping others to understand the language and culture on a few other sites.

I am a member of a role-playing community known as "Federation Space" (SHAMELESS PLUG:  Federation Space RPG) where I play one of TWO full-blooded Klingons in the game.

If any of you should wander over there and decide to join, I'll take the recruitment points if you don't mind... just tell them Avark sent you.  

But back to Klingons... I love them.  And I aspire to their highest standards, however I regret that I may never achieve them completely.

[EnkiDu BaQ]

I am fairly new to this forum, but felt that I should post here. What brought me to be a Klingon was the sence of Honor Duty and Loyalty.  As far as the attitude, that can be felt.  If you have the honor, the sence of duty and the loyalty then you automatically have the attitude.

I have found in some Klingons that they think the Attitude is what matters most.

This is a misconception.  The pride of being an Honorable Klingon is what is important.  

If more people would include the Klingon values in their daily lives this world might be better off.

I was raised on TOS in the 60's and one thing stood out in that show and in all the others that followed.  It was the ideals of all people working together, no racism, no hatred, no greed and no want.

If the real world would strive for this then maybe we would all be better off.

I am Native American, and I see a lot of the same values in the Klingon Culture as in the Indian cultures.  Also there is a lot in the Sameri Culture of Japan.  If you are confronted by "normal" people that say Klingon is only a made up thing, tell them to check out the American Indian or the Sameri and they will find the same thing.

I will now get off my soap box thank you

Sr. Lt. Enkidu vestai-BaQ
 

[qoSagh]

I wholeheartedly agree, the attitude comes from the honor, loyalty, duty, ect. not the other way around. A good way to think of this concept is to remember that Klingons are arrogant because of their strength, not strong because of their arrogance.

While it would be nice to see more honor in real life, one of the things that makes Klingons attractive for most of us is how foreign they are to real human life. I wonder if the Klingon code of honor would be so attractive in a more honorable human society?

[tapez_sonof_chang]

I wholeheartedly agree, the attitude comes from the honor, loyalty, duty, ect. not the other way around. A good way to think of this concept is to remember that Klingons are arrogant because of their strength, not strong because of their arrogance.

While it would be nice to see more honor in real life, one of the things that makes Klingons attractive for most of us is how foreign they are to real human life. I wonder if the Klingon code of honor would be so attractive in a more honorable human society?

the warrior follows his code of honor - irregardless of the outside  - for honor is granted only to those who exciresize it


a dishonorable petaq deserves no honorable treatment.


 

[G'Vera]

I was first attracted to the Klingons while watching reruns of TOS in the '70's. It was one of the few shows that my father and I actually sat down and watched together.  

John Colicos was what did it for me. At first, I hated the Klingons, but something about them just kinda grew on me. The ideas that they were espousing; honour, strength, duty, and the fact that they were based on the Ancient Japanese Samurai code really spoke to me. Once TNG started, and Worf was on there, I was REALLY hooked on them as a species. The back story that the writers came up with for the Klingon characters fleshed them out in ways that no other species had, not even the Vulcans, as far as I was concerned.

I had met a few people that were part of a Federation fan club in 1994, and they told me about a convention that was happening in early 1995 that Mark Lenard was appearing at. I decided that I was going to go as a Feddy Klingon person. I had the TNG uniform top and a drawn-on forehead for that con. There I met a few people who were involved in a group called KAG/Kanada, living in the city that I was living in.

I was interested in the group because of the fact that they were doing community events and doing them costumed. That intrigued me.  When I got back, I contacted them, and have been part of the group ever since. Almost 10 years as part of the same club, still getting Klinned up for events, and still loving it.