tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 25 09:15:26 1995
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Re: }}} KSRP (was KBTP)
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- Subject: Re: }}} KSRP (was KBTP)
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 08:15:26 -0500
Richard Kennaway writes:
> ghunchu'wI' writes:
> >I'll accept the fantasy that Shakespeare's writings are translations from
> >the "original Klingon" for two reasons: 1) ST6 "The Undiscovered Country"
> >claims that they are;
>
> Does it? I didn't read General Chang as seriously claiming that, but
> rather as suggesting that the Klingon version of Shakespeare amounts to an
> independent, original work of literature (a reading with which the KSRP is
> equally consistent).
Something that I like to consider regarding the KSRP (and that I am
utterly convinced the movie authors DID NOT think of)... In the Vonda
McIntyre book (Enterprise?) which tells of Kirk taking command of the
Enterprise, a team of vaudevillians is taken on a tour of the remote
outposts, as kind of a morale boost from Starfleet. One of the
company is a pretentious old actor who "retells" Shakespeare (awfully)
in modern idiom. At the end of the story, where Kirk and company have
(briefly) made peace with a group of Klingons, it turns out that the
Klingons are utterly DELIGHTED with the actor's version of Shakespeare
and take him off on a tour of the Empire. It is, in my imagination, this
source that I like to think lead Chang et al to believe Shakespeare
was originally written in Klingon.
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