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I don't know, Kirk and company seemed to be pretty familiar with Klingon occupation practices during their day, which suggests that the Klingons at least had some.
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I kinda resist the idea that Klingons practice planetary genocide on a regular basis. (Murder & mayhem, yes). Remember that killing an entire population was *bad* even for the CARDASSIANS...re. their reaction to the Founder's proposal in the final arc of DS9.
But how many races have warp drive? Wouldn't it be likely that if the client state, excuse me, planet, DIDN'T have warp drive that the imperial state would refuse to hand the technology over? And in that case the locals wouldn't be able to get away and on-camera so to speak.
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I'm not sure I follow. Sure, the Cardassians were opposed to genocide then, but, uh, that's kind of because they were on the recieving end.
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Garak once tempted Worf with that "what's a little genocide between friends" rhetoric, in "Broken Link". This could indicate that he knew Klingons actually LIKED genocide, and thus Worf could see the reason and come in help of Garak. Or it could mean Garak knew Klingons LOATHED genocide, and Worf would take so much offense that he'd attack in rage, so Garak could kill him more easily and go on with his genocidal task.
Garak's aim of eradicating the Founders need not indicate a general Cardassian taste for genocide, though. Garak is an ends-justify-the-ends-of-entire-worlds sort of guy who kills when necessary, be it one person or billions. Dukat might not agree with him at all.
Cardassians might spread a reputation of themselves as genocidal monsters, though. They sort of did that for "Chain of Command" already, to entrap Picard. They might have used fear as a weapon in subjugation of Bajor and other planets. In actual fact, they are the most pragmatic-sounding race of them all, and they also are the only one with explicit subject and slave races and minions. I very much doubt they would support genocide, regardless of later-day Dukat's lunatic rantings.
Small-scale killing seems to be just a tool for them, though - in addition to the public executions of the occupation era, they can even rig the whole Terok Nor to automatically explode in case of a mutiny.
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Hey wait didn't the Dax mention something about the Klingons killing all the tribbles in (errr...I...can't remember the name of the espisode) isn't that genocide .
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Not in the strictest sense of the term, no.
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