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[Star Trek] How did the Klingons manage to become technologically advanced enough to become a spacefaring race?

There are a few reasons I can see that would make it very difficult for Klingons to advance scientifically:

* Their culture reveres warriors.  If you're not going to be a warrior, why put forth all the effort to become a scientist if you're not going to get any respect for it?
* Klingons are innately aggressive, so it would seem that they lack the natural curiosity to even want to become scientists.  Furthermore, even if they attempted to become scientists, physical aggression isn't particularly conducive to science.
* How did they manage not to destroy their own civilization once they had the technology to do so?
gpt
The Klingons were invaded by the Her'q in the 14th century. During the invasion the Klingons managed to get warp techonolgy. This allowed them to conquor other technologies from other space faring races. 

Just because they are aggressive doesn't mean they don't respect science. Indeed it makes thesis defenses both literal and quite interesting as a scientist should be expect to honrably defend his designs and theories before his peers. 

They almost did destroy their civilization, Quo'nos was ravaged by many destructive wars and required major efforts to remain habitable. The high council as created by Kahless also played a major role in uniting the Klingon people against a galaxy of worthy foes!