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Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie

Posted by timothy on from the gravest-importance dept.

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 ..."

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  1. What's the Klingon phrase for... by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Get a life"?

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    1. Re:What's the Klingon phrase for... by idontgno · · Score: 5, Insightful

      tlhap yIn!

      (per http://www.mrklingon.org/ ; java applet warning!)

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    2. Re:What's the Klingon phrase for... by palindrome · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because the level of irony created in anyone wearing it would destroy time.

  2. Re:Travesty? by MBGMorden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I gotta agree. While the MOVIES generated from the original series dealt pretty heavily with Klingons, the actual TV series didn't go much into it. And TBH, the Klingons of the original TV series were pretty uninteresting IMHO. The change that they started going into the movies and more or less finalized moving into TNG made them far more interesting. Also, to a whole ton of fans from the TNG-onward days kinda view the Klingons as buddies of the Federation. Seeing them put back into a negative light just wouldn't be interesting to me.

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  3. Re:Travesty? by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Weren't the Klingons in TOS basically just bad-tempered humans? They didn't develop the weird growths on their foreheads until much later. They were basically just a poorly fleshed out analogue for the Soviet Union.

  4. Why do the characters even get to hear Klingon? by Gauthic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know I'll be modded down for mentioning this: Why are the Klingons the only species in the whole movie series that the "Universal Translator" didn't automatically translate to both the audience and the characters while not in private conversation at home planet (i.e. TMP's Spock's failture scene)?

    It should be all or nothing. Romulans should speak Romulan, Vulcans speak Vulcan (unless speaking Starfleet English) due to the technomagical universal translator.