tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 12 12:52:16 1999
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Re: Nautical Directions/Navigation
Jeremy Silver wrote:
>How much cannon do we have for directions/navigation and setting courses
>on a Klingon ship?
Examples of {chIj} "navigate":
nIteb DujlIj yIchIj.
Navigate your vessel alone. (proverb) TKW
vaj Duj DachIj
You navigate a warrior ship
(idiom: "You have strength of character.") KGT
vaj Duj chIjbe' He/she does not navigate a warrior ship
(idiom: "He/she lacks strength of character.") KGT
Dujmey law' DachIjpu'
You have navigated many ships. (idiom: "You are experienced.") KGT
In addition, there is {raQ} "manipulate by hand, handle":
"By extension, the term {raQ} is also used when referring to controlling
a space vessel 'manually' (that is, when the controls are manipulated
directly by a person rather than a computer): {Duj raQ} (He/she controls
the ship manually)." (KGT p.79)
>I believe we have the noun He for course, ghoS as a verb for following it,
>how many examples of their use are known?
{HeDon} has never been used, but here's what I have for {He} and {ghoS}:
He chu' yIghoS
Follow a new course! (Clipped: He chu' ghoS) TKD
He chu' ghoS. DIvI' neHmaH.
New course. Federation neutral zone. ST3
nImbuS wej maghoS. He yInab!
Plot course for Nimbus III. ST5 [punctuation uncertain]
HIvHe yIchoHmoH!
Alter the attack course! ST5
HeDaj yIqIm!
Track her course! ST5
'ach HoD, Hevetlh wIghoSchugh veH tIn wI'el maH'e'.
But Captain, that course will take us into the [Great] Barrier as well. ST5
["... if we follow that course ..."]
DeghwI'... He chu'.
["Helmsman... New course!" (from novel)] ST6
He chu' ghoS
"Set [new] course." (TNG "Unification I" [ST Encyclopedia])
Duj ghoStaH
It is approaching the ship. TKD
yuQ wIghoStaH
We are proceeding toward the planet. TKD
yIghoStaH
steady on course! maintain this course! TKD
maghoSchoHmoHneS'a'
May we execute a course (to some place)? TKD
Duj ghoStaH nuq
What is coming toward the ship? TKD
cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong. QIt yIghoS! [punctuation uncertain]
Slow to one quarter impulse power.
[lit. "Twenty five percent impulse power. Proceed slowly!"] ST5
'entepray' yIghoS!
Bear on Enterprise! ST5
nom yIghoSqu'!
Maximum speed. ST5
nuqDaq ghoS?
What is your destination? ST6
qatlh pa' ghoS?
What's she doing? ["Why is she going there?"] ST6
>Do we have have anything that suggests the use of the bearing mark elevation
>terminology the federation uses? Something equivalent to "Set course 180 mark
>200" or the like?
He pagh pagh pagh DoD cha' yInab!
Plot course zero-zero-zero, mark two. ST5
Okrand comments on this very subject in his recent (11/21/99)
startrek.klingon post on the three Klingon cardinal directions:
Finally, it should be noted that none of this terminology
ever was adapted for navigation in space. Klingons have
made use of the system common throughout the galaxy by
which courses, bearings, coordinates, and so forth are
given numerically:
He wej pagh Soch DoD cha' "course 3-0-7-mark-2"
Note that Okrand does not say that the traditional {chan}/{'ev}/{tIng}
method wasn't used on Kronos in water-based navigation, just that a
numerical system was used by Klingons in space.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons