Quote Originally Posted by Mark Hall View Post
There was an interesting theory floating around that said (and I'm paraphrasing, and may miss some stuff)

Most of the Klingons we see are the warrior aristocracy of a race where that is ceasing to mean anything. As daily life becomes more egalitarian for the Klingons, that your grandfather was a great warrior means a lot less, and so the warrior aristocracy clings HARD to notions of honor and worthiness through combat and other traditional things... because they're slipping away. Worf, being raised away from those traditions, clings particularly fiercely, because they help give him identity; his brother, Kurn, is a bit more pragmatic.
That WOULD be an interesting angle; a bunch of angry douchebros posturing and shouting in defiance of their encroaching irrelevance, thoroughly deconstructing the idea of a warrior culture.

Klingon #1: "Imma great warrior!"
Klingon #2: "Okay."
Klingon #1: "Seriously, I fight really good!"
Klingon #2: "Yes, thank you."
Klingon #1: "I took seven heads in the battle of-"
Klingon #2: "That's nice."
Klingon #1: "I fought like a-"
Klingon #2: "Yes, yes, yes, now let me fill out the tax return in peace."

A shame it isn't canon.