tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 15 12:28:35 1996
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Re: new word on DS9?
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>Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:22:51 -0700
>From: "Donald E. Vick" <[email protected]>
[ Re: guarding bodies of the dead ]
>(Interesting note: this is described as a *Romulan* custom in the
>novel version of STII:TWOK. Rampant multiculturalism? :)
Could be; I know it's also a Jewish custom, not to leave the body alone
before burial (I remember doing my part once for a few hours when the Rabbi
Emeritus of my synagogue died). I don't think predators are the (stated)
fear though.
Anyway, it's more Paramountisms to me; I'm not going to stress about
"*'aqmar" or whatever any more than I do about the other gibberish they
inflict on Klingon, or doubletalk they inflict on physics (and it's a good
point that in TKD we hear that they don't have much regard for the body of
the dead. Go figure what's in a writer's head. Then again, it COULD be
that *gasp* maybe Klingon culture isn't monolithic. Nah.)
~mark
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