tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 09 10:57:45 1997
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Re: Age of Ascension
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen wrote:
> This weekend marks the Bar Mitzvah of my youngest nephew, and so tomorrow morning
> (far too early in the morning) my wife and I will be travelling to California for
> the festivities.
>
> This of course got me thinking about Klingon parallels (more than one fan has
> attempted to suggest that Klingons are the metaphorical jews of Star Trek, but I
> don't want to get into any of that) and once again my overactive dream life
> rendered up a serving of sureality which I feel only fitting (and therapeutic) to
> share.
>
> In my dream it was Saturday and I was at the synagouge. I was called up to the
> podium by the rabbi to say the blessing of the torah (as I will be this weekend)
> but instead of the Hebrew blessing I began speaking in Klingon, doing the whole
> age of ascension monologue (in second person of course, pointing to my nephew),
> going on and on about crossing the river of blood and how he had to show us his
> heart yakka yakka yakka. Then, reaching into my coat pocket I took out my
> fountain pen (yes, I really have one of those in my pocket), walked over and
> stabbed the boy with it. He endured the pain honorably and I turned to the
> congregation and proclaimed "DaHjaj loD ghaHchoH."
>
> And then I woke up.
>
> Um, okay, that's it for me. See you all when I get back next week. Don't burn
> down the KLI while I'm gone.
>
> Lawrence
>
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Hi
a question to that,
is it possible that klingon and hebraic (the language, i don't know the
proper english term) is somewhat similar?
Semper fi
R. Weber