![]() The two had a meeting where they established a few basic words the aliens would utter throughout the movie. Some reports-including the DVD commentary for Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Cut-maintain the genesis of the language rests with James Doohan (who played Montgomery “Scotty” Scott on the original show) and the film’s associate producer Jon Povill. Like any story worth telling, the history of the Klingon language begins with improvisation. ![]() How a professional linguist transformed some gibberish into a constructed language Mark Okrand, discussing at length how he came up with Klingon. So grab a bowl of your favorite Klingon cuisine and a barrel of blood wine, because, in today’s Tedium, we’re exploring something a bit different: the Klingon language and its interesting impact on modern pop culture. The world is a bit bleak at the moment, so we decided to get a little nerdy this week and dive into an entirely new frontier. Sadly, it was just a country station, but the experience prompted a silly thought: what if there were an actual Klingon radio station? Surely some dedicated Trekkers around the world may have done the same thing with the Klingon language that some enterprising (get it?) Star Trek fans did with folk music decades before. Reading it aloud, it seemed the apostrophe affected an actual word, but my inner Star Trek fan immediately decided it simply must be a Klingon radio station. Today in Tedium: Earlier this week, I drove by a radio station with an apostrophe in its call sign. Hey all, Ernie here with a fresh piece from David Buck, who is forcing us to consider why we haven’t talked much about Klingon in this newsletter.
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