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charghwI'vo:

DaHram Dochmey law' vIghItlh vIneHpu' 
'ach tlhIngan Hol mu'ghomwIj vIlIjpu'
jI"wing it"nIS

DaHpo' Qu'pa'Daq mu'ghomwIj vIqem.
DaHram juHDaq 'oH'e' vIqembe'.
jIQuchbe'.

Okay, so I'm cheating with DaHpo' and DaHram, but they seemed
AT LEAST as appropriate as the ever so popular po'vam and
ramvam. Also, I'm going to bag it and pull out some canned text.

Back to the movies...

I'm trying to transcribe ST5 and I am finding it quite 
difficult. There are many inconsistencies with other canon and 
a lot of it is simply difficult to figure out what words they 
are trying to say. If anyone else has already done this, please 
correct me where I am mistaken.

Thanks in advance,
charghwI'

First of all, is the woman Klingon named Vixis (Spice 
Williams)? I am presuming so. Subtitles are in parenthesis and 
more literal translations and comments are in square brackets.

Vixis: tlha HoD, DoS wIpuSta' (Captain Klaa, we have a target 
in sight.)
Vixis: nejwI' tIQ (A probe of ancient origin.) [Ancient probe.]

Klaa: qIpmeH Qatlh'a' (Difficult to hit?) [Note: this is an 
expansion on the definition in TKD of qIp.]

Vixis: Qatlhqu' (Most difficult.)

Klaa: maj (Good.)
Klaa: nuSeHmeH Hoch nuHmey (All weapons to my control.) [I am 
absolutely positive that either I have this line wrong, or they 
have blown it entirely. It sounds like, "For the purpose that 
all weapons control us."]

Klaa: Ha' (Scope.) [Again, this is a wild guess. It sounded 
like {Hay'} or {qay'}. His gesture looked like he might have 
been saying, "Come on, let's go!" and the syllable sounded as 
much like this as anything else.]

Klaa: (Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's metal.) 
[I could not figure this out at all. It sounded like {vaj 'on 
buD Daj ngeHbej DIvI'}, which which begins with gibberish, and 
then borrows from a later line.]

Klaa: nuSuv DoS vIpoQ (I need a target that shoots back.) ["I 
demand that a target fights us." Note that the verb {poQ} is 
treated as a verb of speaking, not requiring {'e'}.]

Vixis: (Captain, new data, hostages on Nimbus III.) [Again, I'm 
at a loss. I heard something like {HoD yoq Se' tlhaH yIbo' poQ 
De' lI' HevtaH}, which begins with garbage and ends with a 
clipped "receiving useful information." Did anybody else 
understand this better?]

Vixis: tlhIngan ghaH wa' vub'e' (One of the hostages is a 
Klingon.)

Klaa: latlh (And the others?) [I would have expected {latlhpu' 
je}.]

Vixis: wa' tera'ngan je wa' romuluSngan (One Terran and one 
Romulan.) [Shame on Okrand! What's with the placement of {je}?]

Klaa: vaj wo'Dujchaj ngeHbej DIvI' (That means the Federation 
will be sending a rescue ship of its own.) ["Then the
Federation 
will certainly send their empire-ship." I wonder why he didn't 
call it a {ToDDuj}, since Okrand put {ToD} as a noun in the 
appendix for TKD. You don't suppose her pronunciation or my 
hearing is that far off, do you?]

Klaa: nImbuS wej wIghoS 'e' yInab (Plot course for Nimbus III.) 
["Plan that we follow a course to Nimbus III." Note that {ghoS} 
is being used as a transitive verb with the location as object.]

Klaa: reH DIvI' Duj vISuv vIneH ("I've always wanted to engage 
a Federation ship.) [I would tend to translate this as {I want 
that I always fight a Federation ship." I would have placed the 
{reH} between {vISuv} and {vIneH} for the meaning of the 
subtitle.]

[next scene:]

Vixis: nImbuS wejDaq 'ejDo' *EnterprI'* nuqlu'pu' (The Starship 
Enterprise has been dispatched to Nimbus III.) [I know the verb 
is wrong. Did anybody else make better sense out of it? I'm
also 
surprised at the pronunciation of "Enterprise", which I would 
have stated as {'enterpIS}.]

Klaa: 'enterprI' (Enterprise?)
Klaa: "Kirk" Duj 'oH (That's Kirk's ship.) ["It is Kirk's
ship."]
Klaa: "Kirk" vIjeylaHchu' (If I defeat Kirk...) ["If I can 
clearly defeat Kirk..."]

Vixis: qIbDaq SuvwI' HoSchu'na' Hoch Dun puS (You would be the 
greatest warrior in the galaxy.) [This line is definitely 
chewed up. It begins with "Warriors in the galaxy, then has a 
word that does not seem to know whether it is a noun or an 
adjectival verb, and it ends with the second half of a 
{law'-puS} comparative. Did anybody else understand this?]

Klaa: nom yIghuSqu' (Maximum speed.) [Very much go fast!]
Klaa: Qapla' (Success!) [Well, he got THAT one right.]

[next scene:]

Vixis: chorghSaD qelIqam HIv chuq 'e' vInoH (Estimating attack 
range in 8,000 Kellicams.) ["I estimate that the range attacks 
8,000 Kellicams." Yet another mess. Could it be that Okrand 
hired some student to write these lines?]

Klaa: (Stealth approach, slow to one quarter impulse power.) 
[Sorry guys. I can see his lips clearly in profile and I still 
can't make out what he is saying here. It sounded like, {Hosbe' 
rebegh vaj qI' yIghoS}. The last word is the only one I am 
relatively sure about. Surely somebody else got this line? Not 
only could I not understand the Klingon, but I can't figure out 
how *I* would translate the English to Klingon. At least Okrand 
could make up new words...]

Klaa: ghoSo'rup (Prepare to cloak.)
Klaa: So'wI' yIchu' (Engage cloaking device.)

[next scene:]

Klaa: "Kirk" DujHomDaq ghaH Daq (Kirk! He is on the 
shuttlecraft!) [Note that he omitted {lup-} from the word for 
shuttlecraft. Also, this seems like a strange use of {Daq}.]

Klaa: (Alter the attack course!) [To me, it sounded like he 
said {qIngqang yIDungmoH}. Total gibberish to me.]

Klaa: yISo'Ha'rup yIghuS (Stand by to decloak for firing.) [Did 
I scramble this one as well? It seems redundant about being 
prepared, but it says nothing about firing.]

Klaa: 'enterprI' yIghoS (Bear on Enterprise.)

Vixis: 'enterprI' 'oH DoS'e' (Enterprise targeted.) [Enterprise 
is the TARGET."]

Klaa: yIbaH (Fire!)

Klaa: HeDaj yIqIm (Track her course.) ["Pay attention to her 
course."]

Klaa: (He is good.) [It sounded like {poghuH} to me. Any ideas?]

[next scene:]

Klaa: He pagh pagh pagh DoD cha' yInab (Plot course zero, zero, 
zero mark two.) ["Plan course 0,0,0 mark 2.")

Vixis: 'ach HoD veQ wIghoSchuq veH tIn wI'el maH'e' (But 
Captain, that course will take us into the Great Barrier as 
well.) [I don't know what {veQ} is doing in there, but the rest 
of it sounds like, "But Captain, if we follow garbage, WE will 
enter the Great Barrier." Maybe the word was {Hevetlh}?]

Klaa: "Kirk" wItlha' DaHqu' (Where Kirk goes, we follow.) [I am 
surprised to see {-qu'} tagged to {DaH}, but I'd interpret it 
as "Immediately, we follow Kirk"]

Later, without subtitles, the superior officer commands Klaa 
with a word that sounded like {yIja'gen}. I have no idea what 
that last syllable was supposed to be. They also made a couple 
mentions of {QI'tu'} (Paradise), which they pronounced as 
{qI'tu'} and there was a {maj} and a {bej} near the end.

charghwI'

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