Hyperbole to emphasize the importance of following orders in battle, even if you think it's a mistake.
Ours is not to reason why; Ours is but to do and die
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Hyperbole to emphasize the importance of following orders in battle, even if you think it's a mistake.
Ours is not to reason why; Ours is but to do and die
How about a Worfian view on on honor:
In war, there is nothing more honourable than victory.
Worf would absolutely jump out an airlock, drunk on honour, if it would actually mean victory.
But Worf wouldn’t jump out just to die for Gowron’s lulz.
4.) It’s a changeling and they’re testing to see how obedient the Klingons can be so they might become the Jem’Hadar of our quadrant.
I'm not sure that fits the frame narrative of it being a holodeck program, especially considering that the player using the program is assumed to be a human (in another one of these scenes, the program stops and Gowron rants about how he's going to have to start teaching the Klingon way instead of the human way).