A Klingon meditation rite in which a youth sits in the heat of the lava caves of No'Mat until visions come, as Worf did when he saw his father.
The Rite of MajQa is a Klingon ritual of meditation. The participant stays for a long period in the lava caves of No'Mat, where the heat brings on a trance, and any vision of one's father received there is held to carry great weight.
Worf describes it in Birthright, Part I. Data, who has experienced a strange vision of Dr Noonien Soong after an accident in engineering, asks whether he should take it seriously. Worf tells him that as a boy he underwent the rite and saw his father Mogh, and advises him to find out what the image means.
The conversation rebounds on Worf, who has just been told that Mogh may be alive in a Romulan prison camp and has refused to believe it. Taking his own advice, he sets out for Carraya IV.