<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:44 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kechpaja@comcast.net" target="_blank">kechpaja@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<span class="gmail-"></span><br><span class="gmail-"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">
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</span>Isn’t that inconsistent with the TNG episode “Heart of Glory”, in which the bodies of two Klingons who “died well” (in a battle with the Worf) are referred to as simply empty shells? IIRC (the Wikipedia article doesn’t seem to discuss this) the Enterprise crew are told by the Klingon commander to simply dispose of the bodies by the most efficient means possible.<br></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">​</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>qangtlhInmey pIm pablaH tlhInganpu'.</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">"<b>lo'laHbe' lommey</b>" seems to be the dominant belief of Klingons in the TNG-DS9-VOY era, or at least one of the most common beliefs, but that doesn't mean it's universal. Aren't T'kuvma and his followers a minority sect? (Depending on how DSC plays out, perhaps the belief's association with T'kuvma is why modern Klingons have abandoned it...)</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Also, I figured out one of the puns: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle</a><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div></div>