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Re: Klingon WOTD: quch (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: quch (verb)
• Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:51:11 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, February 6, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   quch
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     kidnap

Never used in canon.

Related verbs:  {jon} "capture"

Related nouns:  {voHDajbo'} "ransom" and {vub} "hostage".

Cultural notes:

   ... taking a hostage is not a courageous act. Nevertheless,
   under certain circumstance, Klingons do take prisoners... Kruge
   seemed to violate the norm when he and his men came across a
   group of Federation citizens­Lieutenant Saavik, David Marcus,
   and a young Spock­on the Genesis planet and seized them. His
   intention was to interrogate them and learn about the Genesis
   torpedo, not to hold them as hostages. (TKW 97)

[Klingons can split hairs with the best of them!  <g>]



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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