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[tlhIngan-Hol] Re: Klingon WOTD: 'ejyo' (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

> > This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, February 25, 2004.
> >
> > Klingon word:   'ejyo'
> > Part of Speech: noun
> > Definition:     Starfleet

Tyler:
>As used in canon:
>
>{'ejyo' luch rurbe'qu' tlhIngan Duj luch. Hos law'qu' luch law'qu' je lo' 
>Duj nuH pat Hub pat je. motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH De' Qatlh cha' tlhIngan Duj 
>jIH'a'. motlh pIm 'ejyo' Dujmey.}
>
>Klingon starship design is vastly different from Starfleet technology. A 
>huge amount of the ship's
>power and technology is devoted to its weapons grid and defensive systems. 
>Unlike most Starfleet vessels, the main viewer on a Klingon ship is 
>usually overlaid with a complex target acquisition grid. (SP3)

As discussed in the literature:

   For example, {'ejDo'} means "starship". The syllable {'ej} also
   occurs in {'ejyo'} "Starfleet." There are, however, no known
   Klingon words {'ej}, {Do'}, or {yo'} that have anything to do
   with Starfleet, starships, the Federation, or space vehicles of
   any kind. It is quite likely... an Old Klingon word... that is
   used nowhere except in the noun {'ejDo'}. Of course, without
   further study, that remains pure conjecture. (TKD 20)

   The entirety of a government's military apparatus is its {QI'},
   usually translated simply as "military". The word is rather general
   in that it may apply to a nongovernmental military organization as
   well, such as that of a group of rebels. Though many Klingons
   themselves are apt to describe the Federation's Starfleet as a type
   of {QI'}, this is not really an appropriate use of the term, since
   {QI'} refers to the military only, while the functions of Starfleet
   are scientific and diplomatic as well. This misapplication of the
   term may, in part, be responsible for the frequent misunderstandings
   between the Federation and the Empire. (KGT 51)


Cf. also {'ejyo'waw'} "starbase" -- presumably referring only to Starfleet 
facilities.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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