You really have to appreciate Riker in this scene. He's actively working to make sure that he can blend in more with the Klingons, that his behavior on their ship will be a pleasant surprise to them. And he was quite successful at it. Even the duty of eating Klingon meals, which the other senior officers around him found disgusting, he approached with gusto and made every effort to enjoy them instead of just tolerate them.
Best part is, anything he couldn't stomach could be recycled anyway and tried again as something else. Given carte blanche to study Klingon food, why not? The only hiccup was the "live" part of their diet.
So Klingons eat animal hearts, live insects and blood pie? As someone who lived in the Philippines. I can say a Klingon restaurant will be very popular in the Philippines and Malaysia. Edit: No, I'm not Taiwanese. I just happen to live in Taiwan at the moment.
Riker was considered the closest thing to a fellow Klingon to Worf after this episode, which is why he asked him to assist his suicide when his spine was crushed. I wish they did not forget this when Worf got married. They should've had Riker as the best man.
This scene inspires me to eat with the same gusto - poking and stabbing at my food, lifting food above and into my mouth, gesturing and pointing with my spork, speaking with food in my mouth, picking up and eating from different dishes, and grunting and nodding approval.
I wish Worf had been in this scene, he could provide an insight to the food, and have a small mention of how his parents used to research Klingon food when he was a child, since he would refusedto eat any human food!
It makes me wonder how much Worf would have actually have known though, having not lived in the Empire at all. He was probably only exposed to popular dishes, or perhaps Klingon food that was tamed down by other Earth chefs. Similar to eating Chinese food in the US, very little of it is actually authentic Chinese, and unless you actually lived/go to China in non-touristy areas, you'll never be exposed to the real deal.
He lived with Jewish parents. The only thing they were good at was blood pie, according to another episode. My guess his childhood was Shakshuka and stuff like that.
i do this all the time. If im going to go to a restaurant with my family or a date, ill go first with a few friends and we'll order different meals. Then we all share it out and decide what we like and dislike. Good way to know what you like and dont make yourself look silly by ordering something you dislike.
Obviously you've never been to an authentic *Hawaiian* family luau. The food will fight back! Especially the baby octopi poke. Those are known to grab your utensils to fight you. Mmmmmm.... 🐙🍴
@@jesuszamora6949 It's not bad at all. French food can be quite delicious, if you know what to pick, same as in every other country. He was probably making a joke on the fact that the most known foods that are loved by the French are Escargots (cooked snails) and Cuisses de grenouille (frog legs), which grosses many people out, given where the food originates from, but both are actually quite delicious.
@@Xylarxcode Honestly, I don't see the big deal people make about those two. And I'm not even sure how froglegs would be gross. Looks like your typical deep-fried food. Snails wouldn't be my first port of call, but it's not like they're eating tarantula or something.
Man, Riker is acting like Klingon food is KFC! Damn, did he smoke weed before that meal or is Klingon food really that good? Will you please pass the Serpent Worms, so I can find out!
I mean all food is weird when you think about it too much. "Would you like some Hen, sir? It is a small bird that we have smothered in the fluids of its excrement, rolled in a plant that we have ground up, and thrown into a fire. You may submerge it in fat on the fire, if the flame is not to your liking." = Want some KFC? Baked or fried?
The rokeg blood pie, heart of targ, and the gagh looks especially appetizing. You add a little blood wine, and some Romulan ale and Saurian brandy to wash it down with, maybe some Vulcan plomeek soup for the first course, and a little Thalian chocolate moose for desert. Dang, now I'M getting hungry!
Now this is one way to enjoy and appreciate another culture by enjoying the cuisine. You can often be delightfully surprised at how delicious an experience it can be.
I find Picard and Pulaski's disdain for the food hilarious, given that later into the franchise, more and more people decide to eat and enjoy Klingon food, so much so that one of DS9's popular restaurants is the Klingon Restaurant.
Same as all so-called 'exotic' foods. Call it disgusting now, but after a few days of it, you'll wonder how you ever considered your old fare to have any flavor at all.
I imagine most people started out small when it came to the Klingon restaurant, try a couple of things that don't look as bad, enjoy them, and then start to experiment more with it.
The next generation is definitely a wussy version of the federation. Deep space nine shows much heartier individuals, and how the Klingons frankly have more guts in dealing with things than humans. The Enterprise has a very snobby view of the world, and when Captain Kern decided to shake things up they acted like a bunch of whining children.
Fandom Goggles on -As a cook myself I believe that Klingon cuisine is mostly raw and fermented meats +vegetables are present as Riker seems to be crunching on a cabbage like vegetable.
kxmode: In the toilet bowl, or whatever they use, it will look like numbers 3, 4, and 5. I imagine Klingons would have more stuff to excrete than just pee and poop, since they have weird redundancies in their physiology.
@Kevin McDougall It's a very potent alcoholic beverage that is best served warm and may or may not contain blood (it's never been officially confirmed). Few non-Klingons are capable of tolerating its effects; it is said to be twice as strong as whiskey.
So much of that stuff looks good. Partially because they made it out of "real" food stuff that was just unusual. Like Pipius claw actually being chicken feet, just with one toe removed and covered in glaze instead of sauce. Lots of that stuff probably was super edible.
I love the scene, I love the food (mad props to the mad props department!), disappointed with the title there. Nasty?? Riker did not seem to think so, and the Klingon restaurant on DS9 was always busy, so opinions may vary. And as it all basically looks like Southeast Asian cuisine, from tentacles to live meal worms, and in some cases Cajun food as well, with a dash of Norwegian, German, and British... so different tastes. I figure some calamari with some blutwurst and some black pudding, and any Klingon would be happy!
I am very interested in knowing what they ACTUALLY used to represent the Klingon food!! I'm sure there's a Star Trek lore text on the subject somewhere....
memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Pipius_claw edible to humans and is in fact a delicacy in certain parts of the world. memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_targ I doubt you would want to eat that uncooked. memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bregit_lung you can eat that but you have to know how to prepare it. memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rokeg_blood_pie you should enjoy that.
What they used for Klingon food in this scene, according to Star Trek Cookbook and property master Adam Sims (and yes, Frakes really ate this crap): Pipius Claw: Chicken feet but with the middle "toe" cut off and put in a base liquid. Bregit lung: Animal tripe (layer of stomach lining/skin, sometimes used in breakfast sausage) Gagh: Oriental udon noodles with soy sauce Rokeg blood pie: pumpkin pie mix with fruit juice and beets Heart of Targ: real animal heart and other organs such as beef kidney Rakta'jino: Real, aged java with espresso beans. Mollusk: Just octopus tentacle, boiled or cooked. Zilm'kach: fried apricot.
I want the backstory on where the writers got the inspiration. My guess is they went to a traditional Asian seafood restaurant that has live seafood in tanks around the dining area. One of my favorite places was like that before the pandemic forced them to close.
@@winstonmarlowe5254 I agree, though I have heard that it is possible (if not advisable) to survive entirely on meat, but not on vegetables. A combination of both remains probably the best of all.
If I remember right, Riker's dad was quite militaristic. I can see him making young Will do field training eating foraged bugs, uncooked seafood, and all sorts of barely edible things to train him to survive. Calories are calories and learn to turn off your revulsion triggers..
"This bird seems as though it has been lying out in the sun for quite some time" "You are aware that we cook most of our foods?" "Ah, I was told to prepare for that... I will try some of your burned, replicated bird meat."
That was literally me at any foreign restaurant I've ever visited. I've always been the adventurous eater, and Riker's tenacity for cultural assimilation is literally on the Borg level right here. Cheers, Riker!
Jacky the Clown In reality it's even worst than that...my grandfather told me that (I'm European) in the worst period of WW2 food was so scarse that in large cities people would end up eating mice (the lucky ones) and even boiled tree bark or leather shoes.
Apparently a number of humans go on to appreciate Klingon food as the two peoples get a bit more familiar with each other. Bashir is shown to eat it unflinchingly during his date in one episode.
The food on that table looks like it would be eaten by a Klingon on a diet. You're expected the type of people they were to have giant plates with large portions of meat and large steins of drinks.
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy sit down to dinner. The waiter brings them their food, still wriggling on the plates. Kirk: "What is this? Bones, give me readings." McCoy: "It's raw Jim!" Spock: "Would you and the good doctor care to share my big salad captain?"
Apparently what they used to make the foods were: Pipius Claw: Chicken Feet with the middle toe cut off. Perfectly edible. Heart of Targ: Raw animal organs from a local butcher. (Edible but needs to be cooked first) Rokeg blood pie: Pumpkin pie mix with food colouring and whole beets. (Edible!) Bregit Lung: Tripe. Edible but needs to be prepared properly or else it's pretty gross. What he ate at the beginning was probably some kind of kelp or a big slice of boiled ginseng, Gagh is probably made of coloured noodles or shaped gluten/agar (or cuttlefish tentacles for some varieties), but to eat it would likely be similar to eating live octopus tentacles, what he gave Picard was probably instant coffee with mushrooms sticking out, and what he ate at the end seemed like an ordinary pickle. Enjoy!
The Reason Pulaski said "What kills us kills them." is because one of the key components in the Klingon diet is Arsenic which is lethal to humans. It's likely that by "Palatable" they mean Arsenic free.
"We know so little about them." - says the Captain who beat the felgercarb out of three Klingons and killed a fourth in his quest to clear Worf's name.
No judgments. I've worked in the grocery business for many years and I've served plenty of people who bought their hot lunches. To each his or her own.
Funny us humans could find a way to stomach that. RIker is clearly enjoying it, and Bashir mopped up a plate of the stuff in DS9, so clearly we are capable of liking that.
From what I understand, the thing about Klingon food is it's roughly kept as close to raw or simple prep. Qagh/Gagh is one of the ones where the serpent worms are kept alive and then prepared in a variety of ways....some are prepped with diluted blood (which, depending on what kind of blood they're fed changes the taste) and then fed a myriad of herbs (which are poisonous to the worms). Some items like qul dir (fire skins) have a short cook time before you must eat it, and then everything else rides the line between marination and fermentation. They even have a loose variation of haggis, in which the food is partially digested in an animal, and then the animal is killed and said food is harvested out of the stomach of the animal. The only real issues are that Humans are physically inferior to Klingons, so they're only able to enjoy so much of it. For example, Arsenic is something a Klingon can eat, but a Human cant. Klingons also have redundant internal organs (multiple livers and kidneys), so they're probably able to process or filter out a lot of toxins and poisons, which would allow them to endure harsher conditions and subsist off of what food they may be forced to scrounge up.
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You really have to appreciate Riker in this scene. He's actively working to make sure that he can blend in more with the Klingons, that his behavior on their ship will be a pleasant surprise to them. And he was quite successful at it. Even the duty of eating Klingon meals, which the other senior officers around him found disgusting, he approached with gusto and made every effort to enjoy them instead of just tolerate them.
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@@missbleach8767 Hi bleach, I'm a coyote. :)
Don't knock it til you try it is the motto for when trying new foods
you kidding? Riker banged an entire Klingon cruiser in a later episode. He obviously knows eating them.
Best part is, anything he couldn't stomach could be recycled anyway and tried again as something else. Given carte blanche to study Klingon food, why not? The only hiccup was the "live" part of their diet.
Riker's horror when he subsequently discovered that gagh is best when served live was hilarious.
I wouldn't call it horror. He was surprised but he adapted quickly.
But he learned to eat it properly.
Better in beta canon where he finds out that you dont chew them….. chewing releases a stomach parasite
Anyone surprised at a culture eating something while it's still alive obviously never went to a clam bake.
Interestingly both he and Picard end up developing a taste and fondness for it
It's a smart move, try to figure out which Klingon foods you can stomach before going on a Klingon ship.
Right? Better get used to it before you make yourself out as a fool to the klingons who are more animal than man...
@@kg4boj racist
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind They're no more animal than your average human
@The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind boomers are racist how does that logic work dumbass
@@MasterMacLeod It's literally a different species...
Imagine Gordon Ramsay in a Klingon kitchen...
"This Gagh is raw!"
Gagh is best when served live
"This tastes like baktag, you verengan Ha'DIbaH!"
You kiss your mother with that mouth?
Then Neelix jumps on his back and the classic fight music begins....
Da da da da da da da dunn dunn dunt.
I don't like it klingon foods not wanting eating not good. I can't believe not do this.
So Klingons eat animal hearts, live insects and blood pie?
As someone who lived in the Philippines. I can say a Klingon restaurant will be very popular in the Philippines and Malaysia.
Edit: No, I'm not Taiwanese. I just happen to live in Taiwan at the moment.
Encourage trekkies to make a klingon-inspired restaurant there, you'll get more tourists, I bet :D
As a guy who has eaten Filipino food, that statement is so damn accurate. Half the stuff I had in pot lucks were soaked in blood.
In China I saw a booth where they were selling larva, centipedes, spiders and scorpions.
JTN AKL
As an American you make me miss the Philippines.
charlesvan13 kentucky fried spider.
“What kills them kills us.”
Oh, I forgot to mention that what doesn’t kill them, still kills us.
She said "what kills us kills them".
No you are both wrong, She said "Usually, what kills us kills them" With Usually being the key word.
@@RaymondJonesrejlive If you're the main character, nothing kills you.
Yeah, but have you ever fkn tried ghargh?
That's true
Riker was considered the closest thing to a fellow Klingon to Worf after this episode, which is why he asked him to assist his suicide when his spine was crushed.
I wish they did not forget this when Worf got married. They should've had Riker as the best man.
I think Alexander did good as best man.
@@mikegallant811
Alexander is more annoying than Wesley
He only doesn't take the title of most annoying because he was in fewer episodes.
wasnt the wedding during the war? might be hard to transfer riker during a war for a wedding...
Man.. I'd love to see both Riker and Worf eating klingon food together at the same table, talking about random shit and having a good time doing it.
Am I the only one who loves Will Riker? I think he was an excellent character and one of the TNG standouts, along with Picard and Data.
Don't forget your prune juice! Worf loves it.
@@MegaTechpcno, you are not the only one, I also like riker he is one tough ass. 💪
@@josephinethornton3823 I can see Riker not blinking at anything Worf eats except prune juice. That one he would take a double take on.
@@jonathansotelo4877what about Riker's failed attempt at cooking scrambled eggs? Worf was the only one who enjoyed them.
When I was a kid I used to pretend I was Riker whenever my grandma served nasty food, I even ate a lot like Riker
This scene inspires me to eat with the same gusto - poking and stabbing at my food, lifting food above and into my mouth, gesturing and pointing with my spork, speaking with food in my mouth, picking up and eating from different dishes, and grunting and nodding approval.
im with ya on that comment great scene
It's kinda like how I get with a whole turkey leg (meat on 'the bone'). Gnawing and humming and chewing.
Well, Just be sure your food doesn't stab back.
Just like Mom used to make!
Such is the way of the maximization of life. Thanks Riker. 😂
An under appreciated role on scifi tv. Coming up with foods that look 'alien'.
Riker should have taken a bottle of prune juice as a gift for his new captain. Honorable gesture and a silent joke…lol
Hadn't been written yet. This episode was in the second season; prune juice was introduced in the third season.
A warriors drink.
I wish Worf had been in this scene, he could provide an insight to the food, and have a small mention of how his parents used to research Klingon food when he was a child, since he would refusedto eat any human food!
Yeah, I too have always wondered why the writers didn't have Michael Dorn in this scene for that very reason.
It makes me wonder how much Worf would have actually have known though, having not lived in the Empire at all. He was probably only exposed to popular dishes, or perhaps Klingon food that was tamed down by other Earth chefs. Similar to eating Chinese food in the US, very little of it is actually authentic Chinese, and unless you actually lived/go to China in non-touristy areas, you'll never be exposed to the real deal.
He lived with Jewish parents. The only thing they were good at was blood pie, according to another episode. My guess his childhood was Shakshuka and stuff like that.
Yes he later on gets a taste for prune juice.
He sounded like quite the little shit growing up
As a Navy Vet, saw the same thing while dining at an Army Base.
Best fried chicken that I ever had in the Navy turned out to be rabbit.
"The Navy gets the gravy, but the Army gets the beans!"
I was doing a rotation in Hoenfels, Germany 20 or so years ago, the cook in their DEFAC was a 5 start chef they hired from a NY hotel.
i think I saw the same in my Air Force base, im pretty sure it wasen't dead either...
i do this all the time. If im going to go to a restaurant with my family or a date, ill go first with a few friends and we'll order different meals. Then we all share it out and decide what we like and dislike. Good way to know what you like and dont make yourself look silly by ordering something you dislike.
That crunchy thing that Riker ate makes me want to try this shit.
Rick Grimes it looked like a pickle lol
We Hoo-Manns love crunchy things.
The "less palatable" Klingon foods are what they serve at the Olive Garden.
lol
The all-you-can-eat breadsticks may very well be Klingon pain-sticks!
Obviously you've never been to an authentic *Hawaiian* family luau. The food will fight back! Especially the baby octopi poke. Those are known to grab your utensils to fight you. Mmmmmm.... 🐙🍴
LOL!!!!
@@thekingofwaffles8403 LOL X 2
I love the irony of a Frenchman turning his nose up lol...
How bad is French food, aside from escargot and tarte de boeuf?
@@jesuszamora6949 It's not bad at all. French food can be quite delicious, if you know what to pick, same as in every other country. He was probably making a joke on the fact that the most known foods that are loved by the French are Escargots (cooked snails) and Cuisses de grenouille (frog legs), which grosses many people out, given where the food originates from, but both are actually quite delicious.
@@Xylarxcode Honestly, I don't see the big deal people make about those two. And I'm not even sure how froglegs would be gross. Looks like your typical deep-fried food. Snails wouldn't be my first port of call, but it's not like they're eating tarantula or something.
@@jesuszamora6949 I've tried snails. It tastes retched. And the texture is worse.
@@SiriusMined Different types of snails must taste different. I've had sea snails and they basically had a texture and taste resembling clams.
normally the sound of someone chewing and eating is repulsive to me, but I found this funny as heck.
depends on whether the person is sitting next to you.
Dr. Pulaski is ready to hurl! LOL!!!!
Man, Riker is acting like Klingon food is KFC! Damn, did he smoke weed before that meal or is Klingon food really that good? Will you please pass the Serpent Worms, so I can find out!
PUH-LEASE!!!!!! More like Popeye's Chicken--That's the shizz-nit!!!!!
There was that bit about the Klingon Restaurant on DS9 being popular, so much of it is probably amenable to human taste buds.
Riker enjoys Klingon foods. In the novels he ordered the wrong item from the replicator and ended up in Sickbay from ingesting poison.
KFC these days IS Klingon food.
I mean all food is weird when you think about it too much.
"Would you like some Hen, sir? It is a small bird that we have smothered in the fluids of its excrement, rolled in a plant that we have ground up, and thrown into a fire. You may submerge it in fat on the fire, if the flame is not to your liking."
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Want some KFC? Baked or fried?
Gagh is always best served live!
It's not even moving!
Maybe they're sleeping?
Yesterday, I didn't know how to eat Gagh.
kxmode I did, too. I RUclipsd it.
It's a line from the episode in the video clip.
One of the best "alien food" scenes. I'd love to see more.
I'm actually willing to try out all these Klingon foods, truth be told.
Yea. I wouldn't mind knowing what gagh tastes like.
Not I, I'm such a picky eater I'm not even willing to eat "normal" food most of the time >.
I've been wanting to try gagh ever since this episode first came out when I was a kid.
(Especially with a nice pint of blood wine!)
Can't even get my nephew to try Jam or Honey.
Yeah, I'd probably be game for a bowl of gagh, and a cup of bloodwine. It'd be an interesting experience.
Nasty? It made me hungry while I was eating.
The rokeg blood pie, heart of targ, and the gagh looks especially appetizing. You add a little blood wine, and some Romulan ale and Saurian brandy to wash it down with, maybe some Vulcan plomeek soup for the first course, and a little Thalian chocolate moose for desert.
Dang, now I'M getting hungry!
You never want to mix Romulan Ale with Saurian Brandy. Not with Heart of Targ anyway. What are you? A caveman?
Hahaha!
What do you call the guy who mixed Saurian Brandy with Klingon Blood Wine?
I don't know, but you wouldn't want to get into a fight with it.
Cagedguitarist401 LOL
Good one!
All those in one sitting come on this isn't the synthahol were talking about you'd be lucky to have any of your liver left with that mix! XD
Now this is one way to enjoy and appreciate another culture by enjoying the cuisine. You can often be delightfully surprised at how delicious an experience it can be.
The look on Picard's face is magic.
I loved this scene and how enthusiastic Riker was too. This episode featured Brian Thompson as well as a klingon.
I really liked Lt Klag.
Featured *both* Brian Thompson as well as a Klingon?
oh yeah that voice! "Maybe we can get one of the females to BREASTFEED YOU!!" how could I forget that voice...@@drewsarkisian9375
I find Picard and Pulaski's disdain for the food hilarious, given that later into the franchise, more and more people decide to eat and enjoy Klingon food, so much so that one of DS9's popular restaurants is the Klingon Restaurant.
Especially the infamous Raktajino
Same as all so-called 'exotic' foods. Call it disgusting now, but after a few days of it, you'll wonder how you ever considered your old fare to have any flavor at all.
I imagine most people started out small when it came to the Klingon restaurant, try a couple of things that don't look as bad, enjoy them, and then start to experiment more with it.
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The next generation is definitely a wussy version of the federation. Deep space nine shows much heartier individuals, and how the Klingons frankly have more guts in dealing with things than humans. The Enterprise has a very snobby view of the world, and when Captain Kern decided to shake things up they acted like a bunch of whining children.
I miss that show so much growing up as a kid late 80s and through the 90s. Commander riker would be a good host for bizarre food Star Trek edition
1:38
"Remember, Number One, when I said I envied you?"
"That's right, Captain, you did."
"I lied."
Fandom Goggles on -As a cook myself I believe that Klingon cuisine is mostly raw and fermented meats +vegetables are present as Riker seems to be crunching on a cabbage like vegetable.
lol i love how Dr. Pulaski prounces gagh perfectly and riker says it like he has no idea
Imagine when number 1 has to go number 2
kxmode: In the toilet bowl, or whatever they use, it will look like numbers 3, 4, and 5. I imagine Klingons would have more stuff to excrete than just pee and poop, since they have weird redundancies in their physiology.
lol
And so the bathroom on board the Enterprise was ruined forever
Surely, he'd create a rift in the time/space continuum.
And it'll be coming out wriggling LMFAO
It takes a special individual to make Captain Jean-Luc Picard raise an eyebrow and stare at him like "...wow."
Oh but no klingon meal is perfect without bloodwine
Twice the strength of Whisky. I'd try that anyday. :)
Johan Brodd yup
heroin is pretty good too
+aviationXXXtreme It's gotta be 2309--THERE IS NO FINER VINTAGE!!!!!
@Kevin McDougall
It's a very potent alcoholic beverage that is best served warm and may or may not contain blood (it's never been officially confirmed). Few non-Klingons are capable of tolerating its effects; it is said to be twice as strong as whiskey.
That last crunch at the end was so satisfying.
I love how Riker is just scarfing all down
If there ever were to be a Star Trek theme park, I'd expect to eat every one of these Klingon dishes.
"Well, these ARE the more palatable choices."
This is why I've always loved Riker. He gets stuck in no matter what.
U know u a good actor when u make that stuff look good....i want some now..lol
To be fair, that Klingon octopus looks kind of good.
Yeas
You gotta be squidding!
Eric Iverson I love squid.
Eric Iverson
Needs to be grilled first, then sprinkled with some sea salt. Yum.
So much of that stuff looks good. Partially because they made it out of "real" food stuff that was just unusual. Like Pipius claw actually being chicken feet, just with one toe removed and covered in glaze instead of sauce. Lots of that stuff probably was super edible.
I have to admit that some of that Klingon food looks tasty.
It really does
IIRC the props used were real octopus, chicken feet, animal liver, and other basically edible things arranged to look weird.
Riker, you are a space lumberjack my dude. Respect.
1:05......."Here, have a soup drink with some caulliflower sticking out of it!"
Riker's really going to town on that Klingon food, guess this is proof he'll eat pretty much anything.
I love the scene, I love the food (mad props to the mad props department!), disappointed with the title there.
Nasty??
Riker did not seem to think so, and the Klingon restaurant on DS9 was always busy, so opinions may vary.
And as it all basically looks like Southeast Asian cuisine, from tentacles to live meal worms, and in some cases Cajun food as well, with a dash of Norwegian, German, and British... so different tastes.
I figure some calamari with some blutwurst and some black pudding, and any Klingon would be happy!
Cockroach
Riker really went to town on that food, you think he'd never seen food before.
Gotta love Klingons. Even their meals test their mettle.
Yup
the best thing is it seems hes even liking klingon food
Better and healthier than McDonald's junks.
More than likely.
Quapla!
Real warriors eat at A&W.
True. McDonald's is NASTY!
Well Klingon food is probably extremely high in protein value!
Ugh! Disgusting!
I mean, look at that gagh! It looks barely alive at all! And please tell me that targ heart wasn't actually cooked!
He was still new at this. Probably his first time and didn't know better yet.
Ugh! The horror! There's no bloodwine!!
It's all been surely replicated if served in ten forward. I don't know if replicated food could actually be moving around.
Why does this scene make me hungry? 😂 They are all about to get sick and I’m salivating 😂
Little did Riker know, he invented mukbang
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I am very interested in knowing what they ACTUALLY used to represent the Klingon food!! I'm sure there's a Star Trek lore text on the subject somewhere....
I'm with you. I need to know.. it looks good as Hell.
dominic labriola
Gagh is cooked udon noodles in seasme sauce.
Check Memory Alpha I think it has the info in the behind the scenes on this episode.
memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Pipius_claw edible to humans and is in fact a delicacy in certain parts of the world.
memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Heart_of_targ I doubt you would want to eat that uncooked.
memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Bregit_lung you can eat that but you have to know how to prepare it.
memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rokeg_blood_pie you should enjoy that.
FireHeart217 looks like beetroot pasta.
I dunno what the 24th Century equivalent of RUclips is, but I guarantee it’s got a channel dedicated to Klingon Food ASMR.
What they used for Klingon food in this scene, according to Star Trek Cookbook and property master Adam Sims (and yes, Frakes really ate this crap):
Pipius Claw: Chicken feet but with the middle "toe" cut off and put in a base liquid.
Bregit lung: Animal tripe (layer of stomach lining/skin, sometimes used in breakfast sausage)
Gagh: Oriental udon noodles with soy sauce
Rokeg blood pie: pumpkin pie mix with fruit juice and beets
Heart of Targ: real animal heart and other organs such as beef kidney
Rakta'jino: Real, aged java with espresso beans.
Mollusk: Just octopus tentacle, boiled or cooked.
Zilm'kach: fried apricot.
I want the backstory on where the writers got the inspiration. My guess is they went to a traditional Asian seafood restaurant that has live seafood in tanks around the dining area. One of my favorite places was like that before the pandemic forced them to close.
I imagine a lot of this was influenced by the "banquet" scenes from movies like Temple of Doom and The Dark Crystal.
"You don't like Gagh?"
"Why would I eat the food that my food eats."
My argument against vegetarianism.......
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Perfect answer Chris
@@christopherdean1326 Eating no vegetables at all is bad for you though...
@@winstonmarlowe5254 I agree, though I have heard that it is possible (if not advisable) to survive entirely on meat, but not on vegetables. A combination of both remains probably the best of all.
See.. Riker didn't just eat nasty Klingon food. He tore that stuff up. He stuffed his face like he hadn't eaten in a week 🤣
For some reason, every time I watch this I get hungry for Chinese food
It made me think of Korean food.
I was thinking the same exact thing! Especially when the server kept bringing more dishes
I love how Picard and Pulaski are squicked out, but Riker's enjoying it.
If I remember right, Riker's dad was quite militaristic. I can see him making young Will do field training eating foraged bugs, uncooked seafood, and all sorts of barely edible things to train him to survive. Calories are calories and learn to turn off your revulsion triggers..
Kids in movies will look at a table like this, take one bite, and say "oh no! I'm late for the bus!" and run out the door...
Fun fact: few hours later after consuming gagh, you will experience gagh again. With very same sound.
Riker must have starved himself for a day or two before eating all that. lol
***** lol
Look at that tummy after season 3. He probably didn't fast before the feast.
I'm surprised he was able to fit out the doors after that meal.
At least the meal was cooked, and not alive.
Charles Lord wtf are you talking about you filthy piece of targshit Klingon food is best raw!
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I love that this video was posted almost a decade and a half ago and the comment section is still rich with discussion and jokes. :)
You know, some of that doesn't look too terrible. And Riker seems to be enjoying the food.
Looks like a regular Saturday Dim Sum meal for me.
In a later episode a Klingon dines on human food at Picard's table. Funnier than this Riker scene.
"This bird seems as though it has been lying out in the sun for quite some time"
"You are aware that we cook most of our foods?"
"Ah, I was told to prepare for that... I will try some of your burned, replicated bird meat."
Tony Todd Commander Kurn Adoptive son of Lorgh actually the younger Son of Mogh. Brother of LT. Worf.
That was literally me at any foreign restaurant I've ever visited. I've always been the adventurous eater, and Riker's tenacity for cultural assimilation is literally on the Borg level right here. Cheers, Riker!
This never ceases to make me hungry every time I see it.
If you go a long time without food, anything, even a bowl gagh will look pretty tasty
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In reality it's even worst than that...my grandfather told me that (I'm European) in the worst period of WW2 food was so scarse that in large cities people would end up eating mice (the lucky ones) and even boiled tree bark or leather shoes.
Gagh. The only food named after the sound you make after eating it.
Apparently a number of humans go on to appreciate Klingon food as the two peoples get a bit more familiar with each other. Bashir is shown to eat it unflinchingly during his date in one episode.
This is what happens when the only way your society can justify chefs is by spinning it into some kind of heroic battle against vicious beasts
The food on that table looks like it would be eaten by a Klingon on a diet. You're expected the type of people they were to have giant plates with large portions of meat and large steins of drinks.
I imagine the pizza Riker makes now is better than that meal.
Actually some of it looks pretty good. Especially pipius claw.
Picard looks more curious than anything,and seems to be enjoying some of it.
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy sit down to dinner. The waiter brings them their food, still wriggling on the plates.
Kirk: "What is this? Bones, give me readings."
McCoy: "It's raw Jim!"
Spock: "Would you and the good doctor care to share my big salad captain?"
I'm sure it's pretty good with some sriracha!
+CCJJ160Channels You mean 100 proof booze,that way you will be too drunk to care,lol.
+Metalman200xdamnit Ohhh, maybe 100 proof booze and sriracha! Now, shoot there are times I do that anyway just with some chicken wings!
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Hey,to each his own,right?
Be funny if Klingons didn't have chili peppers and upon discovery of them..."This is a warrior's vegetable."
1:40 Kellogg's Corn Frakes.
Riker has wonderful table manners.
That strange foods guy on the food channel would fit right in.
Apparently what they used to make the foods were:
Pipius Claw: Chicken Feet with the middle toe cut off. Perfectly edible.
Heart of Targ: Raw animal organs from a local butcher. (Edible but needs to be cooked first)
Rokeg blood pie: Pumpkin pie mix with food colouring and whole beets. (Edible!)
Bregit Lung: Tripe. Edible but needs to be prepared properly or else it's pretty gross.
What he ate at the beginning was probably some kind of kelp or a big slice of boiled ginseng, Gagh is probably made of coloured noodles or shaped gluten/agar (or cuttlefish tentacles for some varieties), but to eat it would likely be similar to eating live octopus tentacles, what he gave Picard was probably instant coffee with mushrooms sticking out, and what he ate at the end seemed like an ordinary pickle.
Enjoy!
Mel I'll pass, even that doesn't sound particularly tasty.
I'm surprised no-one has had a go at opening a Klingon restaurant or a Star Trek/sci-fi themed restaurant, it could work.
The Reason Pulaski said "What kills us kills them." is because one of the key components in the Klingon diet is Arsenic which is lethal to humans. It's likely that by "Palatable" they mean Arsenic free.
"pipius claw" feels nice to the ear. It's like the name of a Dickens character. Mʳ Pipius Claw,
Riker is me every time I go to an ethic food place and want to order and try everything.
Everybody else: gross.
Me: SECONDS!!!!!!!!
Man that food looks delicious! I would tear up that Klingon food.
+James Halleluyah It's torture! I'm *so* trying not to order a Chinese takeaway!
+borgduck Indeed, the sound of him munching down that last bite will haunt my dreams.
Me too.
"We know so little about them." - says the Captain who beat the felgercarb out of three Klingons and killed a fourth in his quest to clear Worf's name.
Riker: Hey, is it cool if we put two tables together?
Is it weird that Klingon food makes me salivate?
No judgments. I've worked in the grocery business for many years and I've served plenty of people who bought their hot lunches. To each his or her own.
a stranger question is what human foods makes klingons drool? there's got to something in earth cuisine they might like.
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They like grilled meat, Turkey, chicken, maybe pig. Cooked on a rotisary. Our juices aren't right too weak.
Picard's all: "Nope."
Riker eats foreign foods with the same enthusiasm I do. If it disgusts someone else I enjoy it all the more.
I kinda wished worf was in this scene to walk up to riker and see that banquet and would sit with him and eat and help on certain dishes
Funny us humans could find a way to stomach that. RIker is clearly enjoying it, and Bashir mopped up a plate of the stuff in DS9, so clearly we are capable of liking that.
From what I understand, the thing about Klingon food is it's roughly kept as close to raw or simple prep. Qagh/Gagh is one of the ones where the serpent worms are kept alive and then prepared in a variety of ways....some are prepped with diluted blood (which, depending on what kind of blood they're fed changes the taste) and then fed a myriad of herbs (which are poisonous to the worms). Some items like qul dir (fire skins) have a short cook time before you must eat it, and then everything else rides the line between marination and fermentation. They even have a loose variation of haggis, in which the food is partially digested in an animal, and then the animal is killed and said food is harvested out of the stomach of the animal.
The only real issues are that Humans are physically inferior to Klingons, so they're only able to enjoy so much of it. For example, Arsenic is something a Klingon can eat, but a Human cant. Klingons also have redundant internal organs (multiple livers and kidneys), so they're probably able to process or filter out a lot of toxins and poisons, which would allow them to endure harsher conditions and subsist off of what food they may be forced to scrounge up.
Anyone in the milllitary has ate earth worms in survival training maybe not raw though lol
Errr, source? Or are you making all of this up on the spot? xD
just looking at this vid makes me so hungry.
One cannot truly appreciate the way it slithers down one’s throat until one has eaten it alive.
They "know almost nothing about them" yet apparently have their entire food repertoire
I think Klingon food looks delicious.