• Flying SquidM
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      91 month 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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        61 month 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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          111 month 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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            71 month 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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              41 month ago

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

            • VindictiveJudge
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              41 month ago

              Also might have meant that Shakespeare’s style is very similar to Klingon plays, Chang finding something to admire or respect in his enemy. He was motivated by glory and preserving his culture and respected and valued the Federation as an enemy even though he hated and feared what would become of his people if they made them allies.

    • teft
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      That’s what makes it tense. One etiquette faux pas and next thing you know you’re bathing the playset in ketchup and pepto bismol.

  • IninewCrow
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    131 month ago

    That kid and the toy General Chang is giving me 80s flashbacks of something I barely remember

      • IninewCrow
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        71 month ago

        1995!? … that’s also surprising because I really felt like it was the 80s. All I remember was that it was all on fuzzy over the air channels on a 20" CRT, which we were still watching in the 90s.

        Man that feels like a hundred years ago.

        • NegativeNullM
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          51 month ago

          My thought exactly. There’s no way TOS movies were being made in the 90s. That just feels wrong.

          • IninewCrow
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            41 month ago

            From this point on … I guess we can just generically say ‘in the last century’ or ‘the previous century’ … fewer people understand 60s, 70s, 80s or 90s and just see it all as ‘the last century’ … which makes it sound and feel like ‘a hundred years ago’.

            God I feel old … I guess I am :(

            • NegativeNullM
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              71 month ago

              I work with people now who were born in the 21st century. I guess I’m old now too :(

      • @RunningInRVA
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        41 month ago

        I hate how the packaging in toys is always so crappy. They couldn’t even be bothered to show the Enterprise A.

  • NegativeNullM
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    81 month ago

    Some kids want tea parties, some kids want tense diplomatic dinners. To each their own!