tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 07 18:32:10 1996
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Re: nuq?
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: nuq?
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 96 20:32:04 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:56:42 -0700
>Steve Boozer writes in a reply:
>>the four "warriors" salute Gen. Martok with mugs of "bloodwine" (one
>>word) and "Q'APLA!" Changeling/Martok replies "Q'APLA!" (This is
>>definitely a greeting.)
>
>I always assumed that Qapla' was the klingon equivalent of Aloha and Shalom.
>
>tevram
It certainly seems to have become one. As I recall, Paramount has only
used Okrand's all-purpose greeting "nuqneH" just once, in "The Emissary."
When Special Emissary K'Ehleyr gets out of the long-range probe she
arrived in, Riker (upon realizing that she's a Klingon) says, "nuqneH,
qaleghneS" in a THICK Terran accent. She seems impressed: "You speak
Klingon!" Modestly he replies, "A little."
True, Frakes mangled it into something like, "nugneg kay-lock ness" but
once I realized what the line was I, too, was impressed. "Greetings. I'm
honored to see you." He might have overdone it a bit with -neS, but he may
have just been being polite--in that annoying Human fashion. (Though, a
Federation Special Emissary may well out-rank a Starfleet commander.)
Unfortunately, we've never heard "nuqneH" again.
Voragh