Timeline for Shakespeare "in the original Klingon"?
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| Mar 1, 2018 at 20:24 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | Good point about Chekov, he notably changed British astronomer John Burke to Ivan Burkov. | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 6:15 | comment | added | ilinamorato | @WolfieInu I would not think less of you. Over 18 months on, I find myself groaning quite a bit at that pun, but I regret nothing. :-) | |
| Nov 18, 2015 at 5:29 | comment | added | Wolfie Inu | Strongly tempted to -1 for "a running gagh"! :) | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 19:08 | comment | added | ilinamorato | @ValekHalfHeart - Spock's quote could establish Sherlock Holmes as a real person in the Trek universe (that would to imply that the adventures Data and Geordi play in TNG are dramatizations or fictionalizations of a real man's life, not fictional fabrications). This would fit more with Spock's character than playing a running gag. However, it's just as possible that an ancient Vulcan did say words that, translated, are identical to Sherlock's famous maxim - or are close enough that the original translator rendered them so. Still, I like the idea that Sherlock is real in the Trek universe. | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 0:32 | comment | added | ApproachingDarknessFish | Sherlock homes was a fictional character, so he couldn't actually be related to Spock (unless Sherlock was real in the Star Trek universe, but if that were the case, the quote might as well have actually been from a Vulcan). | |
| Apr 16, 2014 at 21:43 | comment | added | Bart Silverstrim | Side note - Mark Okrand developed the language, but the first groundwork for the language was from James Doohan... | |
| Apr 4, 2014 at 15:46 | history | edited | ilinamorato | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
a joke.
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| Apr 4, 2014 at 10:45 | comment | added | Liath | I always assumed it meant the original translation but I like this answer much more! | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 17:51 | comment | added | ilinamorato | I think that would be a great in-universe justification for it, sixtyfootersdude. Though it does sound like something the Klingons would do, stealing a violent playwright from a race of ptaQs who don't deserve him. :-) Same with Ferengi. "They think they know cowardice? They've never even seen cowardice!" | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 16:40 | comment | added | sixtyfootersdude | I always assumed that quotes above were universal translator bugs. When translated there were similar meaning earth expressions that meant the same thing. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 16:39 | comment | added | Stick | Without having really looked too deeply into it -- I always sort of thought it was because the typical old pictures of Shakespeare one sees (that sort of disembodied head in an oblong) vaguely resembles the Klingons of old… this is a better explain though | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 15:00 | comment | added | Valten1992 | Yes, that seems right. Thanks for the informative answer! | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 14:59 | vote | accept | Valten1992 | ||
| Apr 3, 2014 at 14:53 | history | answered | ilinamorato | CC BY-SA 3.0 |