tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 27 09:04:45 2005
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Re: Quick and easy question...
QeS lagh:
> > why do you think {ropyaH} "infirmary" might be too vague to use?
> > I'm not trying to shoot you down, I'm just wondering. The word was used in
> > ST6 with exactly the translation you're looking for: {ropyaH yIghuHmoH}
> > "alert sick bay!"
lay'tel SIvten:
>While the Klingon phrase is as you say, the phrase is not subtitled (at
>least, not in my copy of the movie). So "sickbay" is not a canon
>interpretation of {ropyaH}. In this case, "infirmary" works as well.
The ST6 phrase is the only use of {ropyaH} in canon, albeit untranslated
even in closed captions. Still, it was the {ropyaH} aboard a
warship: Gorkon's flagship Kronos One. BTW, the sick bay on the Rotarran
(Gen. Martok's K'Vort-class BoP) was called the "medical ward" in DS9
"Soldiers of the Empire". IIRC I've also heard "med bay" used.
>BTW, is there any difference between a sickbay and an infirmary?
Sickbay is just the naval version of an infirmary, found on ships other
than special-purpose hospital ships. The term is sometimes used for any
shore-bound infirmary on a naval base (where Navy buildings - especially
barracks - sometimes have "decks", "hatches", "overheads" and "racks"
instead of floors, doors, ceilings and beds/bunks used by landlubbers).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons