# Things Klingons tell their children

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 28, 2002, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-klingons-tell-their-children/134303 "2002-10-28T22:35:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-klingons-tell-their-children/134303/61 "2002-11-08T14:51:05Z")

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Don’t look at me, it was the targ, I swear!

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**Author:** ![andymurph64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@andymurph64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andymurph64)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-klingons-tell-their-children/134303/62 "2002-11-08T19:29:58Z")

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> by Tristan  
> Totally off topic, but how did such an aggressive unstable culture manage to make it to space? Feel free to start a new thread about it…

No cite but I seem to remember reading some Trek book answering this by saying that the Klingons were a low tech culture that was contacted by a peaceful, advanced spacefaring one. They learned technology from them then attacked and killed them. Maybe kind of like the Romans or Spartans getting space travel.

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