tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 16 09:47:19 1998
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Re: ST VI
Quvar muHwI':
> When those two men entered the Kronos 1, after having shot at the ship to
> deactivate the gravitation fields, they shot most of the klingons. One of
> them shoutet something like french "pourquoi", or in klingon phonetics
> {*puqwa'*} (that's the unarmed...eh...the one that has his arm shot off)
> What does he say?
charghwI':
: I think you have misheard {Qu'vatlh!}
Oh, that's *much* better than what I had in my transcript:
Korrd: <numagh!> (???)
[They've betrayed us! (untranslated)]
["We're hit!" (novelization)]
???: <Qu' Qaw'!> (???)
[He's destroying the mission! (untranslated)]
You know, I didn't even think to listen for profanity; it was a G-rated movie
after all. That's why they used lavender blood for the Klingons, to avoid a
PG-13 rating for violence. (I guess in Hollywood it's not considered violence
if you don't see any red [human] blood!)
Though I rather like the idea of a French-speaking Klingon on a diplomatic
mission, n'est-ce pas?
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Ca'Non Master of the Klingons lis est." Horace (Ars Poetica)