Never forget.

11/9/2007 3:16:47 PM

aiight

11/9/2007 3:17:11 PM

pre-anniversary?

11/9/2007 3:18:43 PM

omg time warp

11/9/2007 3:19:09 PM

wait

what?

11/9/2007 3:19:31 PM

Nov 9 2346

Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive.

11/9/2007 3:20:09 PM

^ Wrong!

A number of other Klingons from Khitomer were later discovered to have been captured and imprisoned by Romulans on penal colony Carraya IV. The Romulans had originally planned to trade them as hostages, but the Klingon government refused to believe that any Klingon warrior would be captured rather than fight to the death. These Klingons chose to live in exile on Carraya IV rather than dishonor their surviving families by revealing their POW status.

[Edited on November 9, 2007 at 3:23 PM. Reason : PWN'ED BITCH]

11/9/2007 3:23:09 PM

The Khitomer Massacre was a Romulan attack on the Klingon colony on Khitomer in 2346.

Nearly all of the 4,000 Klingon colonists there were killed. The attack was engineered by the Klingon traitor Ja'rod, while the Romulan-Klingon Alliance was still technically in effect. The ambush was part of a larger Romulan offensive against the Klingon Empire, which had begun in 2344 with the attack on the Klingon outpost on Narendra III.

Mogh, father of Worf, was killed in the massacre but his son was among the colony's few survivors. Worf was rescued by Sergey Rozhenko of the Federation starship Intrepid, which was the first ship to respond to the colony's distress call. Worf never forgot the massacre, and hated Romulans for most of his life.

A small number of Klingons, including L'Kor and Gi'ral, were captured by the Romulans after the attack. They were interrogated for three months, following which the Romulans attempted to exchange the prisoners for territorial concessions. The Klingon High Council refused to accept that Klingons would allow themselves to be captured, and would not negotiate. The Romulans would have executed the prisoners, but Tokath argued successfully that they should be allowed to live. The Romulans placed the Klingons at a remote camp on Carraya IV, under Tokath's charge; there the prisoners and their guards remained, raising families together, forgotten by the outside world until they were discovered by Worf in 2369. Several of the Klingons' children, including Toq, left Carraya with Worf, although to preserve their family honor Worf did not disclose their true origins. (TNG: "Birthright, Part I", "Birthright, Part II")

From 2366 to 2368, Mogh was generally considered among Klingons to have collaborated with the Romulans to enable their attack on Khitomer. In fact, it was the traitor Ja'rod, who gave the colony's defense shield codes to the Romulans, which was, however, covered up by his son, Duras. In 2364, Worf tried to challenge the accusation, but in vain: although Chancellor K'mpec knew that Ja'rod was the traitor, he allowed the lie to stand in order to protect peace within the Klingon Empire. Worf dropped the challenge and was discommendated by the Klingon High Council. Only Worf, Duras, K'mpec and Captain Picard knew the truth at this time. (TNG: "Sins of the Father")

After civil war broke out late in 2367, Chancellor Gowron permitted the truth to be revealed, and restored the honor of the House of Mogh. (TNG: "Redemption", "Redemption II")

The site of the massacre is memorialized by an obelisk. (VOY: "Memorial")

11/9/2007 3:24:58 PM

I was like, I've never heard of this



and now I realize that you guys weren't talking about real life

11/9/2007 3:26:50 PM

pwnt

11/9/2007 3:30:59 PM

11/9/2007 3:32:07 PM

11/9/2007 3:46:16 PM

i don't get why he's sad

11/9/2007 3:46:51 PM

cause the content on tww is crappy

11/9/2007 3:47:19 PM

I'm glad I didn't know what this was

11/9/2007 3:48:34 PM

how old is it? curious if that 'So my new place doesn' have internet' thread is mine

11/9/2007 3:49:30 PM

that was a while ago. sometime early last semester

11/9/2007 3:51:48 PM

yea, my new place at the beginning of this year didn't have internet

11/9/2007 3:53:28 PM

I was thinking more along the lines of the Camp Khitomer incident where Colonel West attempted to assassinate the then Chancellor of the Klingon High Council Azetbur.

[Edited on November 9, 2007 at 3:57 PM. Reason : incident.. not massacre]

11/9/2007 3:55:30 PM