tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 30 03:37:43 1997

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RE: batleth (sp?)



I don't know that we've ever seen one *used*, but Worf had two 'aqleHmey
in his batlh bey' on the Enterprise (don't have an episode reference
handy, but 5th season or later TNG). It looks exactly as described: cut
a betleH in half and attach a stick to it for a handle. The Jem'Hadar
weapons do indeed look a bit like 'aqleHmey too.

pagh

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Steven Boozer [SMTP:[email protected]]
	Sent:	Thursday, November 27, 1997 11:05 PM
	To:	Multiple recipients of list
	Subject:	Re: batleth (sp?)

	On Thu, 27 Nov 1997 [email protected] wrote:
	|I am a beginner at tlhIngan Hol and even I know betleH is a
hand weapon
	|and not the "sword of honor" known as a batlh'etlh.

	I think you're confusing the bat'leth - the longer, two-handed
crescent
	shaped sword (betleH in 24th century Klingon, derived ultimately
from
	Kahless' original "batlh 'etlh") - with the mek'leth (meqleH):
the shorter,
	one-handed weapon with the curved blade Worf favors lately. We
last saw a
	mek'leth in last week's Deep Space Nine episode "Resurrection"
when mirror
	Bareil used it to cut up the desert during a dinner party in
Worf &
	Jadzia's quarters.

	To further confuse things, we learn of a third weapon of this
type on page
	64 of "Klingon for the Galactic Traveller":

	"There exists a weapon that might be described as a cross
between an ax and
	a bat'leth. The {'aqleh} has what looks like half a bat'leth at
the end of
	a handle."

	I'm not sure what this is unless Okrand was thinking of the
bladed weapon
	sometimes used by the Jem'Hadar.  I believe Worf was training
Alexander to
	counter this weapon aboard the Rotarran in the recent "Sons and
Daughters."
	Worf gave the Jem'Hadar name, but I didn't make a note of it.

	Voragh


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