Star Trek: 10 Reasons Why Living With A Klingon Would Suck

9. Diet

Klingon Food Okay, I'm a meat-eater, through and through. I like my steaks medium-rare and topped off by blue cheese and garlic. I enjoy pork, bacon, ham and any other meat you can scam off a pig. I will not eat worms. We were first introduced to Klingon gak'h on Star Trek: TNG's"A Matter of Honor", we were supposed to be grossed out. When the Klingon officer pulled a pile of the writhing worms out of a pot and exclaimed "gak'h is best served live". To me, that signals a red alert that I'm not living with a person who eats like this. I mean, the obvious nausea factor €“ these things look like giant tapeworms taken from the intestinal tract of a giant bovine €“ do you really want to see these things at the shared supper table? Obviously not. But if the food is best served live, then what about storage? Do you keep it in a tank? Do you feed the food food? Going shopping to buy food for food does not make a fun grocery trip. Oh, and the beverages. Contrary to the Klingon way, blood and wine do NOT go together. I like my fruits and vegetables animal by-product free, thank you very much. Also, if I'm going on a bender, I want my alcohol processed by my liver, not feeding it.
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John Kirk is a Teacher-Librarian and currently a History/English Teacher with the Toronto District School Board. But mostly, John teaches Geek. Comics, Sci-Fi (Notably Star Trek), Fantasy and Role-Playing and table-top games all make up part of John’s repertoire, There is a whole generation of nerds-in-embryo who rely on him to make sense of it all, to teach that with great power comes great responsibility, that the force will be with us always and that a towel IS the most useful thing to have in one’s possession. When John isn’t in the classroom, he can be found in his basement writing comic reviews for www.popmythology.com and features for Roddenberry Entertainment's www.1701news.com.