tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 06 09:43:24 2002
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Re: Klingon WOTD: QIghpej (n)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, September 6, 2002.
>
>Klingon word: QIghpej
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: Klingon agonizer
>
>Additional Notes:
>A palm-sized device used in interrogations ("Day of the Dove" [TOS]).
>
>KGT p. 55. A hand-held device that produces excruciating pain when
>pressed up against an adversary.
For those interested, here's the full quote from KGT (p.55):
Klingon technology has produced two weapons used, as far as is known,
only by the Klingons themselves. The {tuQDoq}, variously translated
as "mind-sifter" or "mind-ripper," is a device that can read the
contents of a subject's brain. It is considered a weapon because, at
higher powers, it leaves the victim in a permanent vegetative state
(though it does not seem to have this effect against those with
particularly strong mental faculties, such as Vulcans). The second
distinctly Klingon weapon is the {QIghpej}, a hand-held device that
produces excruciating pain when pressed up against an adversary.
William Shatner had a nice line in his novel "The Ashes of Eden":
You might as well go to Earth to buy a QIghpej.
to refer to an exercise in futility.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons