TNG s4e24 “The Mind’s Eye”

There’s no official translation for the words, just assumed insults.

  • Aa!
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    322 days ago

    I can’t imagine Klingons having a concept of “polite language” or otherwise

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      10 hours ago

      The episode where they are doing some kind of court case and there is a Klingon lawyer threw my entire perception of Klingons for a loop. If they have lawyers, what other weird jobs do they have you might not expect from a warrior race? Like… How does one find honor as a sanitation worker? They have to have those, right? 🤔

      • Aa!
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        410 hours ago

        Ezri got it right about the Klingons. In Enterprise, Martok told us that the younger generations all wanted to be warriors,. In ds9, Klingon lawyers saw themselves as warriors, on the battlefield of the courtroom.

        Cultural evolution is weird, and in retrospect, not always right

    • @[email protected]
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      The culture is intensely subtext based. There are different meanings for how you strike someone. They have rituals for all sorts of everyday tasks, each full of right and wrong ways to do things.

      Any culture that has that much subtext in it has language taboos.

        • @marcos
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          42 days ago

          That so offensive that it doesn’t even deserve fighting back! From now on you are ostracized from this house!