tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 12 09:04:26 2010

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RE: A KGT pun?

Terrence Donnelly ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:


> ter'eS:
> >We've identified the pun behind the name J'puq from
> KGT, but I was
> >reading through it last night, and I found another
> suspicious name:
> >Keedera, identified as the most famous composer on
> Qo'noS. Any ideas if
> >this is a pun, and who it might be? I'm not as up on my
> famous composers
> >ca. 1997 as I thought, because I'm drawing a blank.
> 
> It may be a pun, but it's not Okrand's.  The name
> comes from DS9 "By Inferno's Light" where Martok suggested
> adding a new line to a famous song by Keedera: 
> "Bashir, the healer who bound the warrior's wounds so that
> he could fight again."  Okrand merely referred to
> Keedera in KGT without providing a tlhIngan Hol spelling:
> 

Probably not a pun, then.  Those DS9 writers don't seem like the type.

-- ter'eS

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