tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 09 13:38:47 2007
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Re: Klingon DarSeq
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon DarSeq
- Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> In 2153 the Klingon Judiciary placed a bounty of
> 9000 darseks for the
> capture of escaped convict Jonathan Archer, dead or
> alive, which was
> considered "a fortune" by the Tellarite bounty
> hunter Skalaar. When we saw
> them, they appeared to be metal (latinum??) bars,
> approximately 1 x 3
> inches in size, and were transported in a box. (ENT
> "Bounty")
>
As we learned in a DS9 episode, latinum is actually a
liquid (or maybe an oil), so valuable that tiny
amounts of it are encased in the relatively worthless
gold just to make it into a practical currency, which
is why it
is called "gold-pressed". I always found that
hilarious!
-- ter'eS