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I never "justified" anything. I wouldn't have cared if there were less than five "families". Can you guess why I chose five? And why it also is an arbitrary number based on power and hierarchies?
Look, I have no idea why you tagged me and dragged me back into this.
Read this:
If this doesn't satisfy you, nothing will. This was the first time I read this article, and I had never needed to because what it's saying is incredibly obvious to anyone who has read ten thousand pages of the Dune series, or has any understanding at all of Feudal hierarchies.Great House
The Great Houses were a Klingon feudalistic social organization that dominated the Klingon Empire. The twenty-four most powerful Houses were represented on the Klingon High Council. (DIS: "The Vulcan Hello")
Ronald D. Moore stated, "We've never explored the hows and whys regarding the naming of Klingon Houses. The House of Mogh reference was probably something that Worf carried on out of respect for his deceased father. This might be the right of a son – to perpetuate a single name for the House instead of supplanting it with his own." (AOL chat, 1997)
Ron Moore's concept of the conflicting, family-organized Great Houses was inspired by the Dune mythology created by Frank Herbert. In a Klingon-defining memo which Moore sent to Michael Piller at the outset of working on "Sins of the Father", Moore stated, "A Klingon regards the honor of his or her family to be valuable, above all else.
What you quoted above makes more sense. It is not what you stated in our initial conversation though and severre054's recent post indicated that STD was acknowledging the hierarchy that previous incarnations of Star Trek established. That is why you got "dragged" back into the conversation.