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Re: matlh / Maltz

Lieven Litaer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']

> DIvI' qama' ghaH matlh'e' net Sovbej. 'ach chay' qama' moj? ghorgh
> jonlu'pu'? jonpu' 'Iv?

ghaH jon qIrq.
Spock lunejDI' beqDaj toQDuj tIj.
DujvetlhDaq wa' tlhIngan neH tu'lu' ghorDaq chaHmo' latlhpu''e' 'ej
Heghpu'mo' beq law'.
jatlh qIrq: tugh qaHoH.
'ach tugh jatlh qIrq: bIghHa'Daq tlhIngan yIlan.
jatlh matlh: qatlh? choHoHta' DaneH bIjatlhpu'.
jang qIrq: jInep.

> We all know that Maltz is a prisoner of the Federation. However, do we
> know how he became a prisoner, when he was captured, or who did so?

I didn't know that for a long time either, even though I'm a big Startrek
fan for years now.
I recently watched StarTrek III - the search for spock.
It's the scene when Kirk and co board the klingon bird of prey. Most of the
crew had died on the destroyed enterprise, and the captain (who is on the
cover of TKD) has died on the planet, so there was only Maltz on the birdie.

Kirk said to him: I'll kill you later.
later, he said: put him in jail.
Maltz said: Hey, I thought you were gonna kill me?
Kirk replied: That was a lie.

This is how Maltz was captured.

> collaborating in the production of TKD and since. Why is he so eager
> to help his capturers in this way? Do we know?

Hm. Remember that TKD was written only a few years after that movie.
 
> (Though I imagine that wherever he is quartered is more comfortable
> than a "hole in the ground".)

Yes, the federation will certainly respect the socalled human rights
(although this expression is racist already ;-)

> Also, where is he held? (I've heard "Marc Okrand's basement" before,
> but I'm not sure how seriously to take this... especially since, in
> the make-believe world, MO is not affiliated with the military and I
> would find it unlogical for him to be entrusted with prisoners.)

Indeed. we need to distinguish two "worlds":
a) Maltz is a federation prisoner who tells the federation how to speak
Klingon.
and
b) Marc Okrand has invented the language, and there are no klingons.

the combination "Marc Okrand's basement" is just an insider joke.

Quvar.

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