tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 21 15:04:06 1998
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Re: Klingon on Voyager Finale
On Thu, 21 May 1998, David Trimboli wrote:
> From: Jimmyr17 <[email protected]>
>
> >Arturis said something to Torres on Voyager tonight. Anyone know what it
> >means? The closed captioning caught this "ku cha mee-roch" to which
> Torres
> >said thank you.
>
> Pay it no heed. It's the usual meaningless Star Trek gibberish they try to
> pass off as Klingon these days. And as you can see, it proves yet again
> that every single "Paramount-Hol" sentence uttered on those shows has the
> syllable "cha" in it.
>
> You see, what happens is this: the Star Trek writers know people like to
> hear Klingon, and they know basically what it sounds like, so they just have
> the actors choke up something with the syllable "cha" in it and call it
> Klingon.
Technically, though, as filmed Trek material it is "canonical" Klingon.
Just not "Okrand Canonical".
(Till he writes another book, that is.)
joel anderson * http://members.aol.com/JPKlingon * [email protected]
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