Homeworld:

Qo'noS

Goverment:

Klingon Empire

Leader:

Chancellor

Society:

- Warrior race, who value honor & combat
- Society was based around Great Houses of noble lineage
- Tradition was an essential part of their lives
- Had rituals for almost everything

Highlights:

- Kahless was a legendary mytho-historical Klingon figure; he founded the Empire
- 2154: Tried to use Augments' DNA to improve themselves;
- Caused an airborne, mutagenic plague to spread through the Empire
- 2256-2257: Klingon-Federation War occurs, ends with a peace accord in Paris
- 2267: Sign the Treaty of Organia, establishing a delicate peace with the Federation
- 2293: Praxis explodes, the Khitomer Accords treaty with the Federation is signed
- 2344: Enterprise-C is destroyed defending Narendra III, cementing the Alliance
- 2346: Romulans commit the Khitomer Massacre, killing almost all of the colonists
- 2367-2368: Klingon Civil War between Chancellor Gowron & the House of Duras
- 2372: Invade the Cardassian Union, withdraw from the Khitomer Accords
- 2373: Reinstated the Khitomer Accords due to the Dominion threat
- 2373-2375: Aligned with the Federation & Romulans during the Dominion War

Mythology:

- Kotar & Shelka, the first Klingons, killed the gods who created them
- Fek'lhr was the Guardian of Gre'thor (Hell)

Foods:

- Heart of Targ
- Rokeg Blood Pie
- Gagh

Beverages:

Bloodwine

Classification:

Humanoid

Life Expectancy:

150 Years

Blood:

Varied from dark red to lightish pink

Anatomy:

- Ridges on their nose & forehead which continued over the skull
- Two sharp fangs with crooked or sharpened teeth
- Multiple redundancies in their organs
- Pregnancies ran thirty weeks

Augment Crisis:

- All infected, were changed, they lost their ridges & looked more Human
- These alterations were even passed on to their children
- By 2270, a cure was found for the mutation, restoring all their features

Abilities:

Physically stronger than most humanoids