tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 28 08:20:10 1997
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Re: "Soldiers of the Empire" and KGT
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: "Soldiers of the Empire" and KGT
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:19:18 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (message fromMarian Schwartz on Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:07:26 -0700 (PDT))
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>Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:07:26 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Marian Schwartz <[email protected]>
>
> qoror here. Frankly, all of Marc Okrand's shameless catering to the
>Paramount writers (Separ, mevyap, lIngta', etc.) disgusts me. It's also amuses
>me, and I can't quite analyze it. Here's something very underhanded based on
>"Soldiers of the Empire." First it describes a ritual done pretty much verbatim
>in that show, then "...and then [the captain] reverts to the ancient language
>form no' Hol and says, {Delaq Do'}, meaning something like 'Take your stations,'
>a phrase never heard in any other context."
> AAARRGGGGHHHH!
Actually, it could have been worse. I'm actually moderately pleased with
how he's handled it, even though it is rather strained (but what choice did
he have?) The problem is that more people know of Klingon from the
episodes than will ever read his books, and the episode-writers just aren't
listening and aren't learning and will keep writing gibberish. It's
unfortunately hard to tell a bumpy-headed fanatic at a convention that
what he's been seeing on TV is wrong (how can it be wrong? after all,
isn't Star Trek a film of actual events? [OK, maybe people don't believe
THAT]), and yet the alternative is to admit everything some slack-jawed
scriptwriter saw fit to bang out, thus demolishing any semblence of
structure in the language. So he's taken an alternate route, finding ways
to make these Klingon sayings, but not part of the "normal" tlhIngan Hol,
which thus can still maintain its identity.
And in some senses, it makes the language a little more realistic and
believable, granting those fun dialects and borrowed words...
~mark
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