tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 28 17:25:02 1996
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Re: ST:K credits
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: ST:K credits
- Date: Tue, 28 May 96 19:25:12 CDT
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 27 May 1996 23:20:21 -0700
>>>Who is doing the singing in the credits of Star Trek: Klingon? Any of you
>>>out there? I haven't yet worked out what they are saying (it's tough with
>>>many non-synchronous voices, and I'm still far from fluent).
>>
>>Oh, it's the bridge crew. As you can see, I've only now gotten that far in
>>the CD Rom.
>
>Does anybody knows exactly which Klingon words they are singing? On the
>CD-ROM, under the directory wav, there is a wav file with the name
>anthem1.wav, we must suppose that should be a Klingon Anthem?
>From various hints posted here on the list, and the "Making of the CD"
appendix to the ST:K novelization, this is probably what Paramount/S&S
have come to call "the Klingon national anthem": Qoy qeylIS puqloD.
According to the appendix, Okrand wrote (or, at least, translated via FAX)
the words for this "anthem", so if anyone who has played the CD (I don't
have the hardware) can transcribe and post them, we'd all benefit.
SoHDaq qeylIS qa' yInjaj!
Steven
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