I have been watching ST TNG Episode Rightful Hair and the DISCO Where they went to Boreth I am thinking what if there are Two Monasteries there on the Planet one guards the Time Crystals and the other Followers of Kahless Go and Study and Meditate. The reason I think make more sense that there are two Temples is that the Time Crystals are so Powerful they must be kept Secret and Only the Emperor of the Klingons know about it. As do the Monks on Boreth and they put Taylor's Son there to be kept secret from rest of the Empire and only Vary Trusted Monks actually know about the Time Temple and care for it
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There's some very stupid people on Reddit and Ex Astra Sciencia who seemed to be so desperate for things to hate about the newest ST series that they convinced themselves that a single temple per planet was a sensible delusion to labour under. Probably the same people who think Klingons should all look the same, dress the same, and fly a single ship class across an interstellar empire consisting of dozens of billions of lives.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say the Klingon empire is the oldest remaining nation in alpha and beta quadrants (though they are definitely one of the oldest remaining ones). The First Federation may predate them, and the Orions are very ancient as well (though I suppose it could be argued that the Fesarian isolationism and the fact that the Orions are technically in a "dark age" of lost technology and civilization could knock them out of the running).
I don't have time right now to look up the exact dates the various civilizations went into space, but Dr. Rodger Korby specialized in medical archeology and had a focus on ancient Orion sites that had more advanced medical technology than the Federation did in the 2260s. In fact, that android installation on Exo III could very well have been Orion in origin (Ruk's pale skin color could have been something intentional like Data's odd skin color or it could have originally been a blueish green that faded over time for instance, and he is built enough like some of the bigger male Orions to have been patterned from one).
We know that the Orions once had a large interstellar presence, but that empire (or whatever it was ) collapsed so long ago that the ruins are of interest to many other groups, while the Gorn once had an empire that put the Klingons to shame, which also collapsed back down to the handful of worlds making up the Hegemony. We also know that Vulcan maintained a substantial trading empire of their own, although we have no idea how old it was (4th century being a lower limit, as the psychology of Vulcans before the Reformation would have precluded peaceful trading arrangements).
So no, the Klinks aren't anywhere near the oldest surviving Alpha/Beta governing body, they've just been around longer than Humans have been in space. But that applies to most of the interstellar governments, so there you go.
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Since the perspective of Star Trek is centered around humans, then it makes sense that any dates are based around humans not Klingons, Vulcans, etc. Also, it is possible that some aliens don't use the rotation of their planet around their star to determine time, but some other method. It would be pointless for any subterranean alien race or alien races orbiting a binary or tertiary star system to use their version of years as a measurement of time.
That being said, Qo'noS appears to orbit a single star; however, a date given in the "Year of Kahless" notation would be related to the orbit of Qo'noS around its sun, just as a terrestrial calendar on a theoretical Jovian station would be organized according to the length of an Earth year, not a Jovian year (which would be 12 Earth years long).