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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[–] 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

"Blood-borne diseases" would make more sense, given that you're talking about blood and not sex.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Someone needs to make a meme comparing regular white cells to Klingon white cells.

    Human white cells be like

    Klingon white cells be like

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    "Our STIs are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them a millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth."

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    This may explain Klingon blood being red sometimes and pink sometimes. Maybe one or the other is just a symptom of space syphilis.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It's been a while but how was the augment virus spread amongst the klingon population

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago

    It was never a problem for your mom.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    With Glory, it’s just a hole

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Kahless got the clap…

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Idk they have pretty robust immune systems

    I mean it cured the phage

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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