tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 26 09:32:53 1997
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Re: comic text
|qoror here. I've discovered a comic book of The Next Generation that
|includes a decent amount of Klingon in it, and I thought I'd relate it to you.
|
|(The topic is: Q [a mischievous omnipotent being] has turned the entire
|crew of the Enterprise into Klingons after Picard, referring to Worf, said,
|"I wish I had a hundred like him.")
Interesting. Could you provide us the complete bibliographic citation
(author, title, series, imprint, and ISBN if any)?
|First, Troi says "nukneH," in bold. (Luckily, all the Klingon is in
|bold.) Later, Picard says to Q, "naDev vo' yIgghos!" followed by "vaj bIHegh"
|"Or die!" (All the Klingon is "translated".) Obviously, the writer heard
|"bIje'be'chugh vaj bIHegh" (or saw it in TKW), remembered "Hegh" means "die,"
|and decided "vaj bIHegh" meant "or die." We're also treated to "NUCH!" when
|someone tries to attack pIqarD from behind. (These people have been
|transformed, so they're not strictly Klingon.)
Is there any more? I like to collect uses of Hol by writers. Even if
their spelling and grammar are (shall we say?) a bit shakey, they sometimes
come up with imaginative expressions--which can easily be corrected.
|But the most amazing bit is that there's an extremely minor character,
|just for the sake of the panel he appears in, an "Ensign Mandel."
Nice touch. Someone's obviously done their homework.
-- Voragh