"A house divided against itself, cannot stand." This is always pertinent, because it shows how we need eachother to survive.
I began reading this novel on Friday December 9, 2022. This novel is by Keith R. A. Decandido. This novel has 331 pages. I completed this novel on February 18, 2023. It had 389 pages.
"And if a kingdom can be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if Saten rises up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end."
The Gospel according to St. Mark 3: 24-26
"Only a fool fights in a burning house." Klingon Proverb
Klag had his father's arm grafted on, not as a cybernetic one, because he believed it to be more honorable the way he had it. They just lost gravity on their ship after the training.
"The Gorkan had been at the forefront of a very brief campaign against the Elabra; Hedygemoy, an upstart power that had attacked one of Gorkon's brother ships, the IKS Kravokh, with no provocation, and taken its captain and surviving crew prisoner's and not permitted them to die."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 6
KPE stands for Klingons Physians Enclave.
Captain Klag and Dr. B'Oraq were lovers.
"It was all well and good for warriors to exaggerate their feats over blood wine, but formal records needed to be free of such indulgences."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 18
Leskit took Kurek to a Vulcan dining hall. The restaurant had a quiet ambience inside. Viulcans didn't overcook their food and remove all the flavor, they just cooked it so the viruses and ailments would cease to exist.
"Quiet and solitude are usually a prelude to disaster."
Kurek
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido
"The natives of the planet had biological tools, spaceships--and weapons. They were quite effective. We were barely able to defend ourselves against their living spaceships and bioelectric weapons."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 57
Roddeck sufferered from brain damage which affected his hippocampus. He suffered from disassociative identity disorder. He woke up and couldn't recall where he was. He was a Bajorean Militia Member, a member of Starfleet Personnel. He was going to Deep Space Nine to speak with Dr. Bashir.
They get their commander to join them in their festivities.
"Secrecy was it's best security."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 88
"After the Har'q Invasion, Klingon technological development went into overdrive. Where most worlds--as G'joth had learned in his decades in the Defense Force developed powered ground travel, rather than air travel, than space travel, Qo'nos bypassed the first step and did the next two simultaneously, all in an effort to prevent another Invasion like that of Har'q."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido pp. 94-95
They were traveling to Goran's house by vikok, the ride was bumpy and unpleasant.
"Alien this world may be, but anywhere in the empire, a kitchen in use smells like a kitchen in use. Spices, sauces, and raw meats all wafted across Wol's nostrils, reminding her of the hours before the evening meals growing up."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 112
"The moment she decided to study at the Starfleet Medical Academy--a process that itself was a mighty battle against the bureaucracies of two large interstellar nations--she had commenced a war. That war had seen dozens of battles some of which she has lost and left her bloody, but none of which led to her defeat. What's more she had won more than she had lost, and if the very existence of this conference, regardless of what happened during it, counted as one of her finest victories."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 126
B'Oraq compared herself to Lukura. Lukura was Kahless's wife who spread all his word. Without her Kahless wouldn't be remembered as he was today.
B'Oraq found herself by people who were dying. She found the two doctors from the lecture. They helped tend to the sick on the ship.
"Without honor, we are nothing." Wol
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 209
The children were beaten after Klag left them by the guards.
"You are Klingons! When Klingons are trapped, they fight their way out or in an attempt."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 248
"There is a galaxy full of opportunities. It is past time you learned what they were." Worf
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 295
"Honor is well and good when you have food in your belly, but if you starved to save face it did you no good."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 315
"It's easy to waste your time on a brawl when you know where your next meal is coming from."
Tabona
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 320
"Not having something is the best way to know you wanted it."
Kahless
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 344
"The cause of death was herniation of the brain stem secondary to subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by the aneurysm. Extensive subarchnoid hemorrhaging consistent with rupture of the anterior communicating artery rendered him unconscious, with a subsequent increase in intercraneal pressure causing the brain stem's herniiation."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 350
Martok got rid of the Klingon Physians Empire and replaced with The Klingon Medical Authority. B'Oraq will not be on the board because she is too high profile.
"There is little cause for enjoyment in this place. But while the adults have no hope, the children should have some. They should dream of better things, the way we did."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 365
"Ships can be rebuilt. Honor cannot be."
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido pp. 386-387
"He understood that the universe was an infinitely more complicated place than he'd imagined, and he knew just how difficult it was to keep a secret--and how important it was, as well."
Toq
Klingon Empire: A Burning House Keith R. A. Decandido p. 388-389
