Word: klingons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, he says, "there were some things that existed with Roddenberry that were very frustrating to us. Not to have conflict among your characters makes it very difficult, because all the conflict has to come from outside. On The Next Generation, with the exception of an android and a Klingon, pretty much everyone was human, and they weren't allowed to be involved in conflict, so that was very frustrating for the writers...
...Horta, or the one where Captain Kirk time-traveled back to the Great Depression and fell in love with Joan Collins. They know the scientific properties of dilithium crystals, they have memorized the floor plan of the Starship Enterprise, and they can say, "Surrender or die!" in the Klingon language. They have immersed themselves, with a fervor matched by few devotees of any religious sect, in a fully imagined future world, where harmony and humanism have triumphed and the shackles of time and space can be cast aside almost at will. Trekkies are true-believing optimists...
Then there's the year-old Klingon Language Institute (P.O. Box 634, Flourtown, Pennsylvania 19031), which has about 200 members and publishes the quarterly journal HolQeD (translation: Linguistics). "It started out as sort of a joke," says founder Lawrence Schoen, who sometimes uses Klingon in the linguistics courses he teaches at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. But now HolQeD includes scholarly articles as well as Klingon word games and other light features. Thanks to some press reports mentioning the organization, the institute has recently been flooded with nearly a thousand inquiries from Klingon fanciers on five continents. (Send stamped, self...
...humans can take credit for inventing an entire language, and Okrand feels the weight of his responsibility. "I'm stuck," he says. "I've got this book out. I can't violate it." The question is, How to build on his own Klingon Empire? Seth Gershel, of Simon & Schuster Audio, sees a niche for Klingon motivational tapes: how to think like a warrior. Of course, he's not serious, is he? Says Gershel: "I don't know if I'm joking...
CAPTION: Quintessential Klingon...