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Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie
darthcamaro writes "Classic era trek was all about Kirk kicking the Klingons' tails. But the new Star Trek XI movie, the reboot, will not have any spoken Klingon in it — a travesty that has some fan sites up in arms already. 'We actually had a sequence that ended up getting cut from the movie that took place on Rura Penthe, in a Klingon prison,' Star Trek co-writer Alex Kurtzman said, explaining the deletion. 'And there was definitely Klingon spoken in the movie, and it ended up getting cut.' Frakkin' Federation ..."
qaStaH nuq jay!!!!
As long as they don't replace the Klingons Gungans with Jamaican accents, we're cool! ;-)
Smooth heads or bumpy?
"To err is human, to mod Funny divine."
Argh - can't believe I just wrote that.
Funny how all of the swearing is following the BSG meme then. Frakking? Really? I would expect no less than a double dumbass on you!
"Get a life" in Klingon. Brilliant.
Hello, T-shirt!
Of course followed by...
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANN!"
Always gotta love that bit.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
I heard Tom Bombadil isn't even in this one!
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Apparently they had difficulty making the deletion at first, but were successful with a 2nd wipe.....
that 13 year old boy they've got to play kirk got scared when they spoke klingon.
I'm sorry I'm not watching a bunch of pre-pubescent twerps run around a starship, its as ludicrous as putting the Olsen Twins in charge of the USS Nimitz.
whats with turning all these shows into showcases for poorly acting teenagers? whats next? x-men babies?
Those growths are why the Klingons are called clit-heads, or vulva-faces. Without those features, the Klingons wouldn't have any personality or geek popularity at all.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
If you really, really, wanted to piss somebody off, they should remake the Edith Keeler episode as a feature film, but change it in some way as to really just make Harlan Ellison flip out. Have his "great work" get butchered by TWO generations of film-makers, now that would be priceless.
This is my sig.
And a kick in the nuts isn't brain cancer, either. Doesn't mean we need to be grateful for a kick in the nuts. Yes, I'm aware that I just compared Uwe Boll to brain cancer, but it's not like cancer can take offense.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
At a con back in the day, someone asked James Doohan about the ridges. His reply, in his best Scottish accent, was "Remember those tribbles we beamed over? Allergies."
What is most awesome about this post is that it only took TWO minutes between someone asking for a Klingon translation and one being provided.
No kidding. Chewbacca always struck me as very dog-like with his speech. He was practically incapable of whispering, and it looked like it caused him great physical discomfort to hold his tongue. I'm sure he was a good friend to have in a pinch, but sometimes you don't need your friends gargling every half-formed thought that flashes through their brains.
"We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all." - Douglas Adams
The original Trek only rarely dealt with the Klingons. It was more about the crew exploring the unknown.
It's funny how often the unknown looked like the hills of southern California.
why hasn't anyone thought of this?
Because 0.01% would get it, 99.99% would not and ask you wtf is that, but all they'd catch is "He's got a t-shirt in KLINGON. Run."
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
I would cut off your head, dwarf, if you stood but a bit higher from the ground.
That's totally ungrammatical. It is "yIn tItlhap". Leave the Klingon to people who know what they're talking about.
So it must have already happened, and it undid itself by resolving the paradox in four dimensions.
Fortunately, my username perfectly qualifies me to wear the shirt.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
You should just repeat to yourself "It's just a show. I should probably just relax".
25% Funny, 25% Insightful, 25% Informative, 25% Troll
And so, in winning, you've lost.
Yeah, but Gungans don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Of course wouldn't the Klingon reply be "It is a good day to take yours."
Because the level of irony created in anyone wearing it would destroy time.
I heard the rumor that wearing it is forbidden within three miles of the Large Hadron Collider.
"If a boss demands loyalty, give him integrity. But if he demands integrity, give him loyalty." (John Boyd, 1927-1997)
"...I should really just relax"
I miss that show.
Even earlier than that, a story in the fanzine Trek posited that the ridges on their foreheads were the top of their spine, having moved up due to having their backsides kicked by the federation so often.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
"Sir, we've detected a pre-warp civilization on the planet's surface!"
"Nazi or cowboy?"
There's a mild irony here. The one profession great concern for canon misspelled it (unless he meant to speak of large-bore projectile weapons), and the one professing unconcern for canon spelled, and used, it perfectly.
My inner pedant is smiling a smug satisfied smile.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Now my inner pedant is scowling bitterly at my epic fail at word usage: s/profession/professing/
Damn. Now I have to find a way to make my inner pedant smile again.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
"Neither, sir. 1920s gangsters."
They were already preparing to run because of the odor. Asking you about you t-shirt was just a way to pass time (and not pass out) before the elevator opened.
You think wookies are annoying? You must have loved the Star Wars Holiday Special
Because nobody who speaks Klingon would ever think to utter that phrase in any language?
The one profession great concern for canon misspelled it
Your inner pendant is showing. Very professional.
Oddly enough, in a month or so I am, in fact, moving into a basement.
Life imitates art.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
Because 0.01% would get it, 99.99% would not and ask you wtf is that, but all they'd catch is "He's got a t-shirt in KLINGON. Run."
...and without knowing what it means, they'd think, "wow, he needs to get a life."
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and middle america would think that you are a terrorist.