tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 24 12:06:33 1994
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Re: Big time exciting KLI news
>
> >On Fri, 23 Dec 1994, KLI Round Table Acct wrote:
> >> The Klingon Language Institute is proud to announce that we have just
> >> received a license from Paramount Pictures, making us officially the
> >> source for Klingon studies.
> >
> >*sniff* *sniff* I... We... It's... WOW!!! I hoped, but I never really
> >dreamed. I guess there really is a Santa Clause! Congratulations Everyone!
> >
> >janSIy }}:+D>
>
> Well, I guess I'm just a killjoy, or a party-pooper or the like. Other than
> making the KLI "legal" I don't see anything good about it. I have this supreme
> *loathing* for Paramount, to put it *very* mildly. The *only* thing that is
> Paramount that I will even *consider* having anything to do with is Trek. As
> far as I'm concerned, they're not just Ferengi, but the most *dishonorable*
> sort of Ferengi that one can imagine. The only reason that I haven't *totally*
> boycotted Paramount and their products is because of their strangle-hold on
> Trek. Mark my words...they'll find *some* way to make a profit off of the KLI.
> Maybe not this year, or the next, but eventually. They are without honor.
>
> And I tried to keep my flame-thrower on the setting right below "crisp" so I
> wouldn't melt anyone's keyboards. It was the lowest setting I could use.
>
> Rant mode off (*growl*),
>
>
> Alicia
> STREK-L Moderator/Trek Mother :-)
> Cmdr. A'lia
> CEO in Charge of Brussel Sprouts, USS Radish
> Founding Member, STHL (But I'm feeling *much* better now!)
> STREK-L@PCCVM Refugee
Hmm...I admire your restraint....
The fact is that if the KLI never got the OK from the Big P it would
hyave been squashed beneath a very large loathsome leagle boot and Dr.
Schoen was well aware of this fromthe very inseption of the KLI.
To that I give him credit. He has acted honorably.
Sometimes it is better to turn a potential enemy into a friend than is to
wage war with them.
Seldom is that an unwise stratagy.