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[Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'vatlh javmaH: wovqu'
After a long recess I'm going to resume posting
my serialized story, nuq bop bom. A recap for
anyone who has forgotten, or hasn't been reading.
If you'd rather read it for yourself, skip the
spoilers below and see the whole saga to date,
including reader corrections, at http://nuqbopbom.blogspot.ca
The Klingon patrol ship Dugh, captained by vajar
HoD, was disabled in deep space by a nacelle
explosion. Their vessel was detected by a
Yelwitian merchant ship under the command of
Captain Mahoun. Thirty three years earlier, the
ship on which Mahoun then scrubbed decks was
captured by the battleship lotlhwI', escorted by
the ship on which vajar then served as a guard.
Mahoun spent some time in a brig guarded by
vajar. vajar called a doctor to treat Mahoun's
gangrene and Mahoun left vajar with an
unshakeable memory of a song he sang. Mahoun has
enough knowledge of Klingon honour not to offer
assistance directly, but instead gave vajar an
opportunity to ask for a message to be carried to
the planet gharben loS and given to a Klingon
representative, without losing face, under the
guise of delivering a recording of the song. The
representative is agricultural researcher 'eSSIm,
and despite the difference in species and
Mahoun's previous bad experience with Klingons,
the pair begin a relationship. Mahoun is fluent
in Klingon, for reasons no one can figure out. At
first Essim believes Mahoun to be a spy and is
leading him on in order to help the Empire and
redeem her family for her father's dishonourable
acts, but eventually is dissuaded of that notion
and the relationship continues sincerely.
After an encounter with pirates and attempts to
maintain their failing ship systems, the
surviving crewmembers of the Dugh (vajar HoD,
helmsman Hota'ro' and Ensign ghutar) are rescued
by the battleship veS, under the command of
General qImyal. She uses both implied threads and
implied bribery to grill vajar repeatedly for
information he doesn't have and which she doesn't
clearly specify, and accuses him and his crew of
various crimes. ghutar makes lots of friends--he
has a talent for making people around him feel
honourable and act on that sense of honour.
Hota'ro' used to serve on this ship but left
under circumstances not yet quite clear, and is
reunited with her girlfriend, qaH'eng, the
assistant chief of engineering. vajar spends his
time being frustrated with the bureaucracy and
his failing hearing, but they do come up with a
scheme to prevent qImyal from taking control of
their ship or their duty assignments.
The battleship veS arrives at gharben loS, its
mission to resupply 'eSSIm, and they stay a day
to grant shore leave. The battleship's doctor is
the one who assisted Mahoun in vajar's brig, and
he reveals to Mahoun and 'eSSIm that he hid a
data capsule from Essim's father in Mahoun's arm,
and offers to remove it. Mahoun refuses, but
tells Essim he will have it removed on his own
planet by his own doctor and give it to her. No
one, including Mahoun, seems to be able to answer
the question of what the song is about.
We left off vajar's story in deep space at the
rescue site, where the veS engineers are still
working to stabilize Dugh for transport. The
story now picks up back in the bar where we left
the Dugh crew and qaH'eng, and a reasonable
quantity of beer. A slight temporal rewind for
the parallel story, as has been my habit here.
If you encounter errors, anything that doesn't
make sense, or just need a recap of anything, let me know.
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nuq bop bom 'ay''a' Hut
160
wovqu'
tachDaq pay' jatlh ghutar, ?pebej!? vajar 'emDaq
SIq. bejmeH tlhe'egh vajar. Hovmey cha'taH
Qorwagh'a' 'ach Hovmey tlhopDaq HuSlaw' *Dugh*.
tachDaq tlham tu'lu'mo' lolHa'law' *Dugh*.
torchu'pu' 'ej bIngHey bej 'et. tlham Hutlhmo'
logh, ram.[241] SomDajDaq yIt wovmoHwI'mey
qengbogh nuvpu'. wovqu' wovmoHwI'meyvetlh.
wovmoHwI'mey motlh bIHbe' pay' 'e' tlhoj vajar.
pe'meH Sechmey bIH. *Dugh* lulaghchoHpu'
jonwI'pu'. pay' pur vajar 'ej HughDaq chuS tlhuH.
?Qo'!? jatlh Hota'ro'.
jatlh qaH'eng, ?peleS. poS HanDogh luchev neH.
qaStaHvIS yaH poHwIj peQchem lIngwI'
wIngaDmoHta'. nubmo' bIQSIp ngaSwI' *veS* SomDaq
wIHIjbe'. *veS* pIrmuSDaq 'uchchugh luHwI'
tIHmey, *Dugh* ngaSlaH *veS* pIvchem. cha' rep
pIq gharben cha' wIghoSchoH. chorgh rep pIq
wIpaw. pa' tejvaD luch wIHIjlI' ghIq Qo'noS wIghoS.?
?chong!? jatlh ghutar. "wo' vergh vI'av."
?maj,? jatlh vajar, 'ach DujDaj lupe'lI'mo'
loghSutmey tuQtaHbogh nuvpu' bItbej. yajHa'be'
qImyal DaH 'e' Sov vajar. vajar tojpu' 'ej buQpu'
'e' nID. jonwI' ghaHmo' Hota'ro' bang'e' *Dugh*
Dotlh ja' 'e' Sov qImyal. vaj Hota'ro' ghaH je
voqHa' vajar 'e' chup. wanI'vam rurbogh
wanI'meymo', loghDaq yIntaH vajar 'ej Duj mach
ra'taH. woQ Quj muSchu'. Suv neHchugh vay' vaj yISuv!?
ja'chuqlaw'taH Hota'ro' qaH'eng je. latlh raSDaq
taghlaw'pu' mu'qaD veS, jeStaH ghutar 'ach mu'mey
QoylaHbe'mo' vajar 'ovlaHbe'. mogh 'ej qejchoH.
tachDaq ratlh neHbe'. QumwI' ghajbe' 'e' tlhoj.
tatlhlu'be'pu'. jatlh, ?Hota'ro', QumwI'lIj DaghajtaH'a'??
jatlh Hota'ro', ?ghobe'. jIchechtaHvIS
vIchaghlaw'pu', 'ach *Dugh*Daq vISambe'pu'.?
jatlh qaH'eng, ?naDev Qapbe'.? Hung pat bopbogh
mu'mey jatlh ghIq QumwI'Daj lel. vajarvaD nob.
nobHa' vajar. jatlh ?jIHvaD Hung yIrI'. DorwI' vIpoQ.?
rI' qaH'eng, ghIq jatlh, ?ghoSlI'.?
chuSqu'choHpu' mu'qaD veS. Soj lujaDtaH 'op
jeSwI'pu'. qejmo' vajar tIvbe'. Hu' 'ej tachvo'
yIt. tugh chol be'. wuSDaj rIQmo' ghov. be'tlhar ghaH.
?vajar HoD,? jatlh, ?DorwI'lI' jIH. nuq wIghoS??
SuchwI' chaw'Daj much vajar. jatlh, ?pa'wIjDaq. 'oHtaHbogh Daq vISovbe'.?[114]
SuchwI' chaw' nuDbe' be'tlhar. jatlh, ?QongwI' pa' mIch cha'Daq tu'lu'. Ha'.?
pa'Daq vajar Dor 'a lojmIt lupawpu'DI' mevbe'.
QongDaqDaq tlhej. tugh qejbe'choH vajar.
---
SKI: vajar is grumpy, and then the security
commander named be'tlhar cheers him up.
---
[114] This might not make any sense, but then
vajar has been drinking and is cross and grouchy,
so I'm not too worried about mangling the line.
jIHtaHbogh naDev vISovbe' ? ?I don't know the
here where I am.? So 'oHtaHbogh Daq vISovbe' --
?I don't know the place where it is.?
[241] By request of someone who was tired of
ships having to be right-side-up in space. It
still doesn't break the Star Trek universe rules,
though, because seeing as Dugh is disabled, it's expected to be taH or yoy.
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