Saw someone on another, somehow worse website chortling that people were calling them out for flying a "Nazi flag" when, lol, it was just the Klingon flag I wanted to reiterate:
This is not "the Klingon flag". It has never shown up in canon as a Klingon flag (or it hadn't). It's not listed on Memory Alpha or Ex Astris Scientia.
The Klingons have had many flag designs in canon...
...many of them more common than the one closest to the "Klingon flag" common online, which is inspired by the design that only ever appeared in Star Trek VI - and even then it was different, having a gold outline and stripe
(And the flag in Star Trek VI *was* designed to evoke the Nazis, so the fact that a film trying to make that comparison didn't really shows off how much this whole "it's not Nazi actually" doesn't work. And the rest of the franchise Klingons primarily as either an allegory for the Soviets [TOS] or post-Soviet Russia with a viking/samurai culture [TNG on] so of course that kind of iconography is unique to this movie. But you know, even if this was the canon Klingon flag, maybe don't fly the flag of Allegory Nazis??)
The image closest to the one that's now everywhere as The Klingon Flag Not a Nazi Flag It's So Funny You Think It Is Though is a viewscreen logo in the same movie. And even that has the gold outline
It's a relatively obscure design, and the one that's now everywhere online as The Klingon Flag isn't it! There is a design with black outlines, according to EAS, and it's...an obscure background flag in one episode of DS9 & one episode of Enterprise, and it doesn't look like this, either. Like a lot of Klingon flags it looks, you know. Alien, with Klingon script and odd shapes and patterns
There's frankly no good faith reading on this. This flag was never "the Klingon flag". It's an element of a flag inspired by the Nazis that was seized upon, edited to look more Nazi, and sold in such high quantities it now appears near-exclusively when you google "Klingon flag"...
...so much so that it was made canon by showing up in the background of the new shows, whose art staffs found it on Google.
Like yes. People obviously started this so they could have something close to a Nazi flag, but with plausible deniability. Silly normie, you aren't nerd enough to get that it's just a Klingon flag! But it was essentially made up for that purpose. It makes no real sense that this would take off to the complete exclusion of designs that actually appeared in dozens of episodes otherwise. And obviously most people buying it don't know that. But it's clearly where it started
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