tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 02 19:51:12 1996
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The Undiscovered Country (was Re: KLBC question)
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- Subject: The Undiscovered Country (was Re: KLBC question)
- Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 22:50:37 -0400
96-09-02 13:02:56 EDT, jatlh trI'Qal:
> I really don't think you can translate
> "Star Trek" as <"Hov "Trek">, but that is more accurate than what you had.
> You probably would have been better off leaving "Star Trek" together in
the
> English:
I, too, prefer to leave it in the English, but one might consider {Hov leng}.
> ""Star Trek" jav: Hatlh tu'be'" cha'wI'
>
> <Hatlh> means "countryside". I've always understood "Country" in the
movie
> title to mean something like France, or the United State, or China, etc.
"The Undiscovered Country" is a quote from Shakespear. It occurs in Hamlet's
"To be or not to be" soliloquy in Act 3 Scene 1. It refers to death: "But
that the dread of something after death, -- The undiscover'd country, from
whose bourn no traveller returns . . ."
Our Hamlet writers translated "the undiscover'd country" as {Hegh tlha'
qo''e' tu'bogh pagh}, "The world which no one finds follow death."
The title in Star Trek VI really twists this meaning. In fact, "Star Trek
II: The Wrath of Khan" was originally titled "Star Trek: The Undiscovered
Country" (by Nick Meyers), and the title made sense; Spock died in the movie.
Now it's use means very little to me. (I think I read this in Shatner's
"Movie Memories" book.)
In this case, I think Katie's rendition of "The Undiscovered Country" is as
good as any other, except for a missing suffix or two: {Hatlh tu'be'lu'bogh}
SuStel
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