@ummthatguy to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your NameEnglish • 2 months agoAs the figures trickle in, let's distract ourselves a bitimagemessage-square16arrow-up1140arrow-down14
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minus-square@ummthatguyOPlinkEnglish10•2 months agoFrom Undiscovered Country Why it was specifically used there, I couldn’t tell you.
minus-square@ummthatguyOPlinkEnglish22•2 months agoFound it per wiki: The film’s director Nicholas Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany’s attempt to claim William Shakespeare as German before World War II.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoDid Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
Does anyone know how this joke came to be?
From Undiscovered Country
Why it was specifically used there, I couldn’t tell you.
I’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
Found it per wiki:
Fascinating.
Did Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
We gotta go deeper