Open Council (Klingon High Council)
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The Open Council is invoked as the formal public forum required by ritual to adjudicate lineage evidence. K'mpec orders Kahlest to present her testimony there, converting the private confession into a staged, empire-wide potential reckoning.
Implied as austere and ceremonial — a place where verdicts become public and ritual consequences are enforced.
Future stage for public testimony and ritual judgment where discommendation or restoration will be pronounced.
Represents the theater of collective honor and the possibility of public accountability versus continued cover-up.
Formal: traditionally attended by Council members and public observers; not a private venue.
The Open Council is referenced as the required forum for Kahlest's testimony and the place where Worf's discommendation must be declared; it functions as the public stage whose decisions carry formal legitimacy and irrevocable social consequences.
Implied to be austere, ceremonial, and potentially explosive if the evidence is revealed publicly.
Site for formal tribunal and public adjudication of honor and lineage.
Represents the empire's public face and the theatre where private compromises will be exposed or enforced.
Public to council members and observers; high-stakes political visibility is implied.
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In K'mpec's private chambers the High Council's moral rot is laid bare: K'mpec admits the council framed Mogh and blamed him to protect a powerful family — Ja'rod, Duras's father …
In K'mpec's private chambers, the council elder quietly admits the truth: Ja'rod, Duras's father, was the real traitor. Picard exposes the cover-up and demands justice, but K'mpec argues empire-preservation requires …