Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:Daniel Carrera wrote:
Christian Einfeldt wrote:
That depends on what century you are in. In later centuries, the Klingons were part of the federation.
What??? Are you sure? In which century was that? Certainly not in the TNG series.
Weren't they. Isn't that why Word was on the ship. Relations were still a little tenuous, but they were part of it. The romulan though, they were not.
Ok. Time to settle this, as OT as it is (what the hell, it's the weekend).
At one point the Klingon Empire had an outpost on a world called Khitomer. It was attacked by the Romulans and almost everyone was killed except for a young Klingon boy. The boy was rescued by an Earth (Federation) starship and the Romulans were driven off. The boy, whose name was Worf, was taken back to Earth and raised by a Russian couple. When he grew up, he joined Starfleet and at the time of TNG was the only Klingon in Starfleet.
Meanwhile, as a result of the Federation ship assisting the colony on Khitomer, the Federation and the Empire entered diplomatic relations which resulted in a peace treaty called, appropriately enough, the Khitomer accords.
Forgive me for stretching this a bit but, an important incident happened prior to that when the Enterprise C (predecessor to the TNG Enterprise D) went to the defence of a Klingon outpost Narendra III, the Enterprise was destroyed while fighting against three Romulan warbirds. This act of bravery in battle was what eventually helped bring peace between the two races or at least averted the war. See Yesterday's Enterprise.
(I'll go back to lurking again)
So during the era of TNG (and DS9) the Federation and Klingon Empire were on good diplomatic terms and often had common enemies, particularly the Romulans, whom the Klingons despise, and in DS9, the Dominion, who attacked from the other side of the Bajoran wormhole from the Gamma quadrant...
Christ, I know *way* too much about this stuff.
Rod
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