Why, yes.Originally posted by REG
You mean the belated Coming-of-Age ritual with the painstick? The bonding ceremony with Jeremy Aster? The courting ritual with Kehleyr? The Right of Vengeance with Duras? The Discommendation? The Arbitration of Succession between Gowron and Duras?
Painsticks! Just the very term makes me want to laugh. Sounds like something children would say. Now agonizer sounds like something sinister, but painstick? Just makes me want to snicker.
"Oh, no, here come those terrible Klingons with their painsticks. Run for your lives!"
It's effect is that it turns the Klingons from a sophisticated and ruthless people to a bunch of guys who should wear loinclothes and carry broadswords.
"Uggh, me big bad Klingon, me play with painstick."
Also reminds me of Ash's "Boomstick" in Army of Darkness when he is talking down to the natives.