How Do You Run a Klingon Empire?

Star Trek has spent almost 60 years delivering the ins and outs of Starfleet and the Federation, detailing the history of its greatest triumphs and greatest crises. But one of its most enduring factions has had its structure shrouded in mystery and myth for almost that entire period too… and no, it’s not the Romulans. It’s the Klingon Empire.

The Klingons have been one of Star Trek‘s most fleshed-out alien species—charting their evolution from sworn enemy to stalwart but…