tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 08 12:16:04 2004
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Re: DCKL translation problems: {tova'Daq}
Quvar wrote:
>{tova'Daq} is listed as the noun "mindsharing"
From KGT:
Thus, Federation Standard has no word meaning the same
as Klingon {tova'Daq}, a sort of mind sharing or insight
into one another's thoughts" (KGT 204)
... there are some words that simply do not translate. One
must resort to descriptions rather than simple one- or two-
word translations, and one must be a quite facile in the
language and knowledgeable of the culture to understand the
concepts. The Klingon notion of sharing of minds noted above,
{tova'Daq}, is an example of such a word. (KGT 207)
*Tova'dok* was described in DS9 "Soldiers of the Empire". Here's the
relevant part of the script:
DEEP SPACE NINE: "Soldiers of the Empire" - REV. 03/03/97 - ACT ONE
(www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/519.txt)
INTERIOR CAPTAIN'S OFFICE
Worf is meeting with SISKO.
SISKO
I told the General I'm inclined to
grant his request for your
services, commander. I can
certainly understand why he'd want
you along -- you're a fine
officer. But I'm not sure why you
want to go on this mission.
WORF
It is... a great honor to be asked
to serve under General Martok.
(beat)
And... he saved my life in the
Dominion prison camp.
SISKO
Oh? You didn't put that in your
mission report.
WORF
It was a personal matter -- not
something that belongs in an
official report.
Worf pauses, trying to put this into terms that a human
can understand.
WORF
(continuing)
You... know that I was forced to
fight the Jem'Hadar guards in the
camp...
(off his nod)
Each day they would call me to the
ring and each day I would fight.
But then, there came a day when
I... wavered.
SISKO
You mean you didn't want to go
back into the ring?
WORF
No. I mean that I considered
letting them kill me. It seemed
like the only way out.
(beat)
Just before I went into the ring,
Martok turned to wish me
success... and then he saw what
I was planning -- saw it in my
eyes. It was a moment of Tova'dok.
SISKO
Of what?
WORF
There is no human word for it. It
is a moment of... clarity between
two warriors on the field of
battle. Much is said without the
need for words. In that moment,
Martok knew what was in my mind.
(beat)
Once I realized that he saw my
intention to give up, I could no
longer go through with it. I went
back into the ring... and fought
once more.
A quiet beat as Sisko studies the face of this man he
knows so well and yet doesn't know at all. Worf
immediately feels uncomfortable.
WORF
Perhaps it is something that a
human cannot understand...
>Is this in ST3 what Spock has done to Dr McCoy, and then Sarek with
>Captain, brain-connection
>through the hand and stuff. Then there is a german word:
>Gedankenverschmelzung, isn't it?
My feeling is that this isn't telepathy per se, but rather a heightened
instinct or "hunch". That being said, {tova'Daq} may well be the word
Klingons would use to describe the Vulcan mind-meld, or telepathic linking
of minds.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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