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Could someone explain the whole story behind why there's no Emperor of the Klingon Empire, and why they needed to clone the Kathless guy.
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StarshipTitanic wrote:Could someone explain the whole story behind why there's no Emperor of the Klingon Empire, and why they needed to clone the Kathless guy.
Kahless had no heirs, or if he did his line had died out. Only a true descendant of Kahless was permitted to take the throne.
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I'm not entirely sure as to the whole story, or even if there is one. I suspect that the Klingon government just gradually moved away from the full blown dictatorship that having an emperor implies towards...whatever the hell form of government that council is considered (oligracy? I'm pretty sure they're not elected, so it's not democracy). Emperors were pretty much a thing of the past even in TOS according to Gowron's quote, "There hasn't been an emperor in 600 years!"

Cloning Kathless wasn't a plan of the Klingon government, with the High Council deciding that they needed a new emperor. Some religious sect did it, hoping he could purge the corruption from the emperor. Gowron then allowed Kathless to become a symbolic empire to avoid another civil war.

EDIT: I'm not sure that's the exact quote, but it's pretty close.
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Trogdor wrote:I'm not entirely sure as to the whole story, or even if there is one. I suspect that the Klingon government just gradually moved away from the full blown dictatorship that having an emperor implies towards...whatever the hell form of government that council is considered (oligracy? I'm pretty sure they're not elected, so it's not democracy). Emperors were pretty much a thing of the past even in TOS according to Gowron's quote, "There hasn't been an emperor in 600 years!"

Cloning Kathless wasn't a plan of the Klingon government, with the High Council deciding that they needed a new emperor. Some religious sect did it, hoping he could purge the corruption from the emperor. Gowron then allowed Kathless to become a symbolic empire to avoid another civil war.

EDIT: I'm not sure that's the exact quote, but it's pretty close.
I think that's pretty much it. The Monks of Boreth made the clone to fix Gowron's corruption. Now they have something similar to the British. Kahless = Monarchy, Chancellor = Prime Minister.
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