I'm watching TNG s4e26/s5e1 "Redemption". There's a scene where Worf's honor is restored, by grabbing and bloodying Gowron's d'k tahg. This got me thinking, Klingons absolutely adore blood rituals. Presumably, 24th century medicine makes contracting an STD a trivial issue. However, 21st century equivalent medicine would be far more limited.
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ryper@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 117d
"Blood-borne diseases" would make more sense, given that you're talking about blood and not sex.
charonn0@startrek.website · 18 pts · 117d
These are Klingons we're talking about.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 117d
Yup, that was just foreplay.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 117d
HIV and hepatitis are both bloodborne and sexually transmitted. To be most accurate, you'd be correct. But comedy for the meme community allows STD to also be correct
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 117d
You're not doing it right, then.
Krusty@quokk.au · 28 pts · 117d
You forget that anatomically Klingons are very redundant and are excellent healers and have extremely strong immune function. Like in Voyager, those organ harvesting people wanted the half-Klingon because she's(Torres) immune to the plague (phage) decimating their people.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 117d
Someone needs to make a meme comparing regular white cells to Klingon white cells.
Human white cells be like
Klingon white cells be like
essell@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 117d
You think gowron has crazy eyes?
Those are actually really massive crazy white blood cells!
Dasus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 117d
They ran out of internal threats so they're seeking them from the outside, makes sense.
sundray@lemmus.org · 23 pts · 117d
"Our STIs are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth."
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 117d
This may explain Klingon blood being red sometimes and pink sometimes. Maybe one or the other is just a symptom of space syphilis.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 117d
It's another example of survival bias .... we only automatically count the survivors of any given situation but never think of the individuals that died in the process.
Klingons survived through that period of their history because so many others had to die needless, pointless, helpless deaths because of infections, diseases and suffering while a few went on to become stronger more resilient individuals.
It's the same in human history ... we got to the modern age with a much stronger immune system because so many millions had to die hundreds of years ago before we developed immunity.
Thorry@feddit.org · 7 pts · 117d
Klingons have very different anatomies and immune systems to humans, it's a good chance blood borne diseases don't even affect them all that much.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 117d
It's possible, but we aren't really given any evidence of this
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 117d
They are extremely violent, and sustain countless injuries throughout their lives. They likely evolved to be able to resist infections and heal quickly.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 117d
It's been a while but how was the augment virus spread amongst the klingon population
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 117d
Wasn't that an engineered thing?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 117d
Engineered, yes. But it still had to spread somehow
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 117d
It became airborne.
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 117d
It was never a problem for your mom.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 117d
Kahless got the clap…
SouthFresh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d
With Glory, it’s just a hole
daannii@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d
Idk they have pretty robust immune systems
I mean it cured the phage
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 117d
At least, according to the think tank.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 3 pts · 117d
If we allow Discovery as evidence, Klingon technology has been in steep decline for centuries, only recently falling to as primitive as 24th century Federation technology.
It's possible that Kligons had better medical treatments available in the 21st century than in the 24th.
TheDoozer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 117d
Wait... so the Klingon Empire was essentially Angry Idiocracy? I wonder what the Pakled society looked like a thousand years before we saw them...