STAR TREK TOP FIVE: TOS Klingons

This week’s Top Five was suggested by Dr. Peter Bryan — follow him on twitter Peter Cullen Bryan and marvel at his pop culture analysis.

The Klingons are the counterbalance to Those Old Scientists — an authoritarian regime of warriors, beholden to no one but their own honor and the glory of the empire. TNG and DS9 did a lot of heavy lifting to give the Klingons depth and culture, but it’s a testament to the following characters that in only a handful of episodes, TOS created such an enduring legacy on pop culture.