• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.”

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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.

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