tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 12 22:35:41 2001
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RE: Enterprise
At 11:13 PM -0400 9/12/01, Will Martin wrote:
> [I] wrote:
>> Picard (to Worf): "[mevbe'wI' jiH]?"
>Ouch. That's really bad.
Er... I assume you mean the Klingon, as opposed to the idea? :-)
Either way, in my defense, I was a lot younger then...
>You might look closer to the translation of "Kahless, the Unforgetable" and
>come closer to something like:
Thanks for the suggestions. :-p
>Actually, I'm not happy with anything I can come up with here. It's really
>just a bad approach. Klingon ship names tend to be relatively simple, like
>{pagh} or {targh}.
I'd meant to imply that only "special" ships would be named so oddly; in
particular prototypes or one-of-a-kind ships. But my excerpt doesn't show
it of course.
>"One who cannot be stopped" is just not something that
>would roll off a Klingon tongue. There's a difference between one that
>doesn't stop and one that cannot be stopped and you aren't close to the
>latter.
Even today I don't pretend to actually know Klingon. That probably explains
that. If everything was different, and the script had been up for filming,
I'm sure I'd have consulted Okrand for his take.
>> Worf: "Juggernaut, sir. 'The unstoppable'."
[...]
>> Dunno if Okrand had anything of the sort in mind though...
>Likely not.
Agreed.
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