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There's a DS9 episode featuring a klingon lawyer (I forget which episode it is). THe lawyer has a few pieces of dialogue where they view the legal process as a battle just like any other klingon views a fight. Since then it's been my head canon that plenty of klingons are around doing plenty of stuff other than fighting but view it in terms of hunting, battle (with something) and honour. I wish more of this were touched on in Trek.

Like ... klingon monks and religion ... what's the culture of pursuing that for a klingon?

they got the warp drive from the hur'q.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Hur%27q

"I find honor.... in blowing up that black hole! Klingons are born to fight and conquer... physics! Today is a good day to die... for science!"

I’ve thought about this a lot. Not this specific thing, but Klingon culture generally.

Like their culture is all about death in battle and glory and honor.. so sure maybe they don’t have doctors (those redundant organs help a lot) but what about farmers and cooks? What about builders, bankers, literally anything other than warriors which are necessary for a society to function?

If nothing but death in battle is worthwhile to pursue, how does their society not entirely collapse? Or is the focus on battle a newer shift on their society, now that they have access to other societies to do the grunt work?

I always imagined it was because of the Hurq invading. Like we know that the Vulcans were warlike at one point, so maybe the Klingons were more... normal? Maybe they had a sect of warriors that basically took over after the Hurq invaded and slowly they became a warrior culture?

I'm reminded of this Whomp comic where the one who invented the Warp Drive was the one trying to escape the planet