Paradise here on earth for space cadets

STOCKHOLM — In search of a new and different vacation spot, with great food and cultural delights?

Look no further.

A theatre in Stockholm is playing host to a Klingon delegation seeking to promote tourism to Qo’nos (pronounced “Kronos”), the home planet of the ruthless yet honourable race of warriors from the cult TV franchise Star Trek.

The event shows off the best of the race’s culture, including opera, martial arts and culinary delights such as Gagh — a delicacy of well-seasoned live worms — and blood wine.

Along with a stage presentation — offered four times a week in English and Klingon — the lobby of the Turteatern has displays offering vacation packages to Qo’nos, extolling the merits of Klingon culinary tours (“the best kept secret of the Beta Quadrant”), and seeking to attract students to courses at the military academy (“find your inner warrior in outer space”).

Many fans were relieved to see that the visitors from Qo’nos resembled the Klingons from the 1990s Star Trek: The Next Generation, rather than from Star Trek: Discovery, the latest instalment produced by CBS.

The show runs until the end of March.