Honestly, one thing I'll always be a little disappointed by with Star Trek is that they ditched the Klingon explanation.

So, with the movies and TNG and DS9, we got HONOR, GLORY! HONOR, GLORY!

In the old FASA RPG, they had a totally different driving force. Their entire thing was like... If you weren't expanding, you were dying.

They were huge expansionists, and that was their entire reason for doing what they did.

The honor and glory of battle, not so important.

Why do I like it more?

Why else would they buy cloaking tech from the Romulans?

I mean, Klingons.

They're all about honorable battle! The glory of vanquishing a mighty foe! etc.

Why would a culture so big on honorable combat buy a cheat code like cloaking devices? You can't say it's just a few, either, because every Klingon ship has one and they're used very liberally.

But for a race that's about finding new life and new civilizations, and boldly going where no Klingon has gone before, cloaking technology makes a lot more sense.

Like, they're still big on honor and all

The game wasn't written that early.

You've still got the split between the human looking ones and the rubber forehead ones

It's just that they explain that Klingons are big into genetic engineering and creating fusion races, while the rubber forehead is a mark of a pure, Imperial Klingon.