• Flying SquidM
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      55 hours ago

      Fun fact, Marc Okrand designed the Klingon language intentionally without the verb “to be” before Star Trek VI came out and it caused him a massive headache.

      • @Pronell
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        46 hours ago

        That line always annoyed the fuck out of me. They couldn’t make up an equally vitally important Klingon author and then compare them?

        Nope, just a throwaway joke.

        • @[email protected]
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          66 hours ago

          I interpreted it as cultural appropriation and how primitive Klingon diplomacy was that they’d make the claim directly to the people they’d appropriated from.

          • @Pronell
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            55 hours ago

            That’s really nice, I like that interpretation a lot! Sort of “This man wrote so well he might as well have been a Klingon.”

            • @[email protected]
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              33 hours ago

              We also know that the singular great writer in the Federation’s time is Beverly’s grandmother.