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I’m wondering whether there are any canon-friendly Klingon banners or flags that I can fly in public that are not the very, very nazi looking red-white-black one.
I live in Germany and the alternative might even put me into legal trouble based on whether the judge is having a good day or not, and I just don’t want to take any chances or arouse any undue attention from neighbors who don’t know anything about Star Trek.
I know there’s the green-yellow-red emblem that’s much better, but the only full flags that I can see are butt-ugly, non-rectangular green banners from DS9.
There’s also this really cool looking one from Star Trek VI apparently, but I don’t know what the canon implications are or where to get one:
Any ideas?
Don’t. Flying a Klingon flag is a recipe disaster. Pretty much any non Trekkie is going to think you are a nazi
As a fellow german I can confirm that such a flag triggers strong nazi vibes.
That is the entire point of the post. I was not talking about the red-white-black standard one.
This comment speaks the truth
By all means, have you read any of the post? That’s the entire point.
Depending on if you could have a print shop make one for you, maybe a white flag with the Klingon-cardasian alliance emblem instead?
Along the same vein, here’s all the cannon emblems according to the wiki
The Cardassians are the literal fascists of the Star Trek universe. Might not be good to associate with the species that is intensely nationalistic while you live in a country that has laws against displaying fascist symbols.
@mycatiskai @startrek I’ve always been uncomfortable with how much Star Wars fandom has embraced the iconography of the Empire.
Was recently at Disney world and in the Star Wars area there was only one small store with only Empire/First Order stuff and dozen or so places with 90% Rebel Alliance.
I don’t think there is much ambiguity in Star wars that the Empire/First Order is the bad guys and have no redeeming qualities
Hell if I know how expensive a custom flag is to get printed but
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both look pretty good. Worry less about canonicity and more about if the aesthetics work for you.Dunno, that just looks like an off-center misprint of the Japanese flag. :P
So what I think you want is the DS9 era Klingon emblem.
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According to this article this is the banner that was used on the Promenade in DS9. This is a “chair drape” (whatever that is) but maybe you could use it as a flag, convert it to a flag, or have a custom flag made based on this?
not the very, very nazi looking red-white-bla
Fascinating, I never would have thought a Klingon flag was Nazi.
I mean, it’s a red flag with a white circle in the middle featuring an abstract bold black symbol in the middle. Any German including me sees it as a nazi flag immediately.
