The Klingon Tea Ceremony in Star Trek is the perfect embodiment of Klingon culture

The Klingon Tea Ceremony is the perfect embodiment of Klingon Culture in Star Trek.

Star Trek has brought fans one of the greatest alien races in all of science fiction with the Klingons. The Klingons are warriors, who love to battle. Modern-day Vikings in space, but with forehead ridges. They’re one of the more intimidating, yet fascinating cultures fans can explore in Star Trek, but if you don’t have the time to deep dive into their culture and lore, looking at their iconic Tea Ceremony is all you really need to do to properly view them.

The ceremony sees the Klingons (usually) ingest a tea brewed from a poisonous plant. Doing so is done to show one’s bravery as while the plant is toxic to Klingons, most survive the ordeal. While they’re under the effects of the tea, the Klingons then recite poetry to one another, usually about battles and such. As Worf stated, this was all done to teach Klingons that,  “…death is an experience best shared, like the tea.”

Properly summing up just how unique and intriguing the Klingons are.

The Klingon tea ceremony should be the focus of an episode

The only time we’ve seen the tea ceremony took place was in the Next Generation, “Up The Long Ladder” in season two. In the episode, Worf and Dr. Pulaski engaged in the ceremony together, after Pulaski was able to salvage Worf’s dignity following a fainting spell on the bridge.

The tea would potentially kill a human, yet Pulaski shot herself up with an antidote of sorts and hopped right on into the ritual.

Considering how unique the ceremony is, Star Trek would do well to actually feature it in a full episode, with the effects and bonding ritual being the backbone of the story. These are the types of episodes that usually stand out most to fans and highlighting the Klingon culture would just be a wonderful thing to do.

Assuming they don’t look like purple orcs, that is.