Discommendation was a form of punishment found within the Klingon Empire. In discommendation an individual would be stripped of their honor and status. The punishment extended to the individual's family, for seven generations, reducing the house to the lowest echelons of Klingon society, and sometimes ejected the individual from the Empire all together. However, discommendated Klingons still retained some basic rights, such as the Right of Vengeance. (TNG episodes: "Sins of the Father", "Reunion"; TOS comic: "Beneath the Skin")
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| - Discommendation was a form of punishment found within the Klingon Empire. In discommendation an individual would be stripped of their honor and status. The punishment extended to the individual's family, for seven generations, reducing the house to the lowest echelons of Klingon society, and sometimes ejected the individual from the Empire all together. However, discommendated Klingons still retained some basic rights, such as the Right of Vengeance. (TNG episodes: "Sins of the Father", "Reunion"; TOS comic: "Beneath the Skin")
- The ceremony in which this punishment was meted out was simple. The Klingon about to be discommended would state, "tlhIH ghIj jIHyoj." ("I fear your judgement.") He would then be called "biHnuch" ("Coward") by the highest-ranked Klingon present, who would subsequently cross his or her arms in front of his or her chest, and turn his or her back on the recipient, while others followed suit one by one until almost all Klingons had their backs turned. The speed of this gesture varied, from formal ceremonies which were done slowly to summary punishments which could occur as quickly as the Klingons in judgment could move. (TNG: "Sins of the Father" )
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| - Discommendation was a form of punishment found within the Klingon Empire. In discommendation an individual would be stripped of their honor and status. The punishment extended to the individual's family, for seven generations, reducing the house to the lowest echelons of Klingon society, and sometimes ejected the individual from the Empire all together. However, discommendated Klingons still retained some basic rights, such as the Right of Vengeance. (TNG episodes: "Sins of the Father", "Reunion"; TOS comic: "Beneath the Skin")
- The ceremony in which this punishment was meted out was simple. The Klingon about to be discommended would state, "tlhIH ghIj jIHyoj." ("I fear your judgement.") He would then be called "biHnuch" ("Coward") by the highest-ranked Klingon present, who would subsequently cross his or her arms in front of his or her chest, and turn his or her back on the recipient, while others followed suit one by one until almost all Klingons had their backs turned. The speed of this gesture varied, from formal ceremonies which were done slowly to summary punishments which could occur as quickly as the Klingons in judgment could move. (TNG: "Sins of the Father" ) Crossing the arms in front of a person's own body could also be used as a slur to remind a Klingon of his dishonor. (TNG: "Reunion" )
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