Warriors of the Klingon Empire come to drink and sing songs of past glory

I like to hear from the Warriors of the Klingon Empire.

I like to hear from everyone on the following 3 questions.

1. Is Star Trek a religion?

2. Are you a Star Trek purest, a moderate, or a liberal ? (purest is someone who cannot or will not accept the changes in the movies and from the new movie, a moderate can go either way, they like some, but hate others, and liberal is someone who jumps full force into the new movie and the changes it brings. )

3. The state of Star Trek Fandom, are we becoming a endangered species, or are we holding our own, or are we growing still.

Take the time to answer these questions on the network, or email the loutrekshow@gmail.com and let us know what you think.

I look forward to seeing what my Klingon Brothers and Sisters think of my questions.

K'Rad

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Permalink Reply by QlarH sutai-Qorej on August 20, 2011 at 8:49pm

Is Star Trek a religion? --According to the Terran'ghan 'historical documents" series Futurama, it will be, around c.2600...But a religion? Ask a Jedi in the UK, who recently successfully listed their 'religion' in the British Census...or the 'Presleyterian Church', 12 'churches' and 37,000+ 'congregation members', who ardently believe that Elvis was 'proof' he was the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Anything can be made into a religion...Star Trek showed the belief systems of many worlds: Vulcan gods, the RTemple of P'Jem, Mt. Seleya, Vulcan's Forge, Ghol's Kohlinahr school, & Surak's general School of Logic; the Efrosian Church of Vaal; Beta III's Landru cult; Sigma Iotia II's worship of the Book, "Chicago Gangsters of the 1920s"; the Megans' fear of the Salem Withc trials, because Earth's former Magekind had fled due to religious persecution; Lwaxana Troi's Holy Rings of Betazed & Sacred Chalice of Rixx; The Edo Lord, the semi-interdimensional protector of the Edo innocents; the Mizarian Vulcanoids' worship of 'The Picard'; Benjamin Sisko, born on Earth of a Human and a Bajoran Celestial Prophet, becomes The Emissary of the Prophets, and the Pagh-Wraith cult which opposes Bajoran belief in the wormhole aliens; The Ocampan reliance and belief in the Caretakers, the Nacene noncorporeal aliens who'd accidentally wrecked Ocampa; Voyager's discovery of the Borg's Perfection principle, seeking enlightenment by capturing the Omega Particle, and Unimatrix Zero, a "haven of rest" for certain Borg drones; The Voth denial of the truth of their 'Distant Origin," from Earth's dinosaurs, running against their established belief; the NX-Enterprise's discovery of "Contrary" Vulcans, heretics to Logic, and the Xindi's belief in the Providers, the Sphere Builders, who manipulated them into terroizing Earth. And of course, Kahless the Unforgettable, as the founder of the Klingon Way of the Warrior (and DS9's Gaians, who's Worf-descended Sons of Mogh carried on that belief). But ALL these featured religions and others are only to frame a story, not set down revelation. Star Trek is about another Vulcan (fictional) belief & tenet: IDIC, infinite diversity in infinite combination. We are all able to discern the Truth of this multiverse, and the methods by which we do so, enrich us all...Could there be Klingon Christians, Kahless' Crusaders? Google it and see. Jewish Romulans? Cardassian followers of Buddha? Why not? But Star Trek does do one thing spiritually: Trek frees the mind, as a living faith (not religion) frees the soul.
Are you a Star Trek purest (sic, purist), a moderate, or a liberal? --I accept "Canon" Star Trek, i.e. what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG)...So, THAT is why we have not one race of bumpy-headed "Bikers of the Galaxy"--But FOUR Kindred of FULL Klingon Warriors, some honorable, some not, who have been chronicled in the 'historical documents' of Earthrs' several Trek series. The QajIn'ghan or Smooth-head klingons of Qaj, of whom I am one (very moody, Greenish-brown, facial hair but with split large bushy eybrows and chin hair, from the Original Series) ; The QlIn'zhanghan or Crest-head Klingons of Klinzhai (Single large ridge from nose to back of skull, no side ridges, from ST the Motion Picture); The Sons of Kling, aka the WaDIch Ridge-headed Klingons of Qon'oS (Worf and company, including Star Trek III's Commander Kruge, and seen in the TNG-era series); and finally the QItumbaH'ghan, The Kindred of Kitumba, the perjoratively-called 'Sloped' Klingons (very faint ridges, some nearly hairless Klingons, of whom Colonel Worf and Genral Chang number themselves, from STVI: The Undiscovered Country). As Worf explained in "Trial and Tribble-ations:" "They are Klingons....They are not (products of) genetic engineering or a plague...(It is) a matter we do not speak of to outsiders.") So though allowances can be made for the (disputed) Augment storyline, "Canon" Star Trek has largelyestablished Klingons as themselves, not "stick people". So, I am a purist, from the Klingon perspective. The other Star Trek is fun, even Enterprise and the "reboot" universe.
The state of Star Trek Fandom, are we becoming a endangered species, or are we holding our own, or are we growing still? --Growing, though Trekkers and Klingon fans are a different breed than Star Wars fans...Like the Difference between Lord of the Rings fans and Star Warriors (ask Clerks II)...The Jedi and Sith playfight with their lightsabers & Mandalorian armor--we fight with phasers and Klingon disruptors. They claim more box office, but we have more produced hours of entertainment, and a whole new universe to discover now. We simply have more stability, more "legs" in the industry, and better stroytelling...When was the last time you had a "Clone Wars" DVD-watching party? Cooked "Sith weiners" at a BBQ, instead of "Klingon WarBurgs"? klingons are the best fans because we GET fandom--it's not fanaticism, or flash in the pan, or repeats of the same plot in three movies worse than each of the last. We give Trek punch, power and a dignity that no other fandom has, hands down.