tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 25 06:30:41 1994
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Re: Re: Age, Experience
> On 18 Aug 1994, Thibaud Salle wrote:
>
> > Okay, enough of our chronlogicla ages. Are we not KLINGONS!!???
> >
> > By the way, what is the lifespan of Klingons? More or less than Humans' ?
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> > Thibaud Salle' [email protected] [email protected]
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> I dunno, but I think the statistical average lifespan for a
> Klingon would be significantly shortened due to the belief that it is an
> honor to die in battle and that trying to survive to live to a ripe old
> age is a mark of great shame. For example, in the TNG episode where Riker
> serves on a Klingon vessel, he meets a crewman who greatly ashamed that his
> father surrendered to the Romulans and is now old and wasting away of
> natural causes and did not die like a true warrior. I think the average
> lifespan of a Klingon would be greatly impacted by their behaviour as
> opposed to physiological longevity.
>
> yoDtargh
No, I beleive the shame was because the father
a) surrendered, rather than die honourably, and
b) Was a prisoner... of the rommies, no less.
I always thought it would be something of an *honour* to be a long-lived
tlhIngan, as you would have to be one *tough* old bird to have not only
survived in your youth, but as yu grew older and less physically capable,
to be able to best young warriors in their prime!
"Age and cunning will always overcome youth and skill!"
--tQ
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