Chapter 26 - Klingon Mating Rituals (Patreon)

There was a scene in the movie Star Trek: Generations where the mad scientist Soren struck Lursa and caused her to bleed. Stopping her men from retaliating, B’Etor asked if he had been initiating a Klingon mating ritual. I had looked it up in the Klingon cultural database; that was actually the start of several of them, by either the man or the woman.

My research on the topic, during a moment of whimsy when I was on the Enterprise, had actually borne that out. The Klingons had as varied and as rich a sexual life as any other race, though on average perhaps more vigorous and violent than most. A dominance/submission component was extremely common in most of their sexual acts, perhaps because of the rise in importance and influence of the warrior caste in the past few centuries. Interestingly, the women of that race were just as likely to be the dominant in that sexual encounter as the male, oftentimes moreso, as their libido tended to be quite a bit higher on average than the males of that race. The stuff you learn, huh? Now that also had never appeared in the shows.