yeah that was the thing that i thought hard to believe. A big battle between Staryfleet and Klingons for the control of a planet, wero, casualties, and not a sigle Klingon raises their eyebrows even more?
Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"
skfsh@startrek.website 1 day ago
I wonder how much do the Klingons know that Starfleet pulled its punches?
alx@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Limerance@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Ritual combat is something Klingons have a lot of cultural understanding and respect for. This fits right in.
skfsh@startrek.website 4 hours ago
Aha. This is the reasoning that made the whole thing click for me. Thank you!
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 20 hours ago
I don’t think the Klingon leadership were ever lying to their people about why the war happened. I think everyone involved understood the simple soulist truth that a war is whatever the combatants can agree is a war, and therefore a bloodless war as a formality of cultural respect and independence is perfectly valid.
The realist viewpoint of “a war has to be between two people who hate each other and if they don’t then it’s not a real war” is not culturally universal. In fact, this episode reminded Me of what I’ve read of war in indigenous Australia. Wars did not usually involve any loss of life before colonisation.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Given that the shields barely has a scratch, at least the bridge crews have to know
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 1 day ago
I think they’re probably fully aware, at least amongst their leadership. They’d already been offered the planet for free, after all.
I think it was about respect, not trickery.