#The Daily Klingon

[daily-klingon]

My manager at work loves that I’m trying to learn klingon, and has said that if I know how to do closing announcements in klingon he would let me do it. How would I say the store is closing in x minutes or that the store is closed?

qaSDI' X tup ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in X minutes qaSDI' wa' rep ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in one hour qaSDI' rep bID ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in half an hour qaSDI' wa'maH tup ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store closes in ten minutes tugh ngevwI'vam SoQmoHlu' This store is closing soon DaH ngevwI'vam SoQchoHlu' This store is closing now DaH ngevwI'vam SoQlu' This store is now closed SuratlhtaHchugh yotwI'pu' bomoj if you remain, you will all be intruders DaH ngevwI'vo' yImej Leave the store! Now!

#tlhingan hol #the daily klingon #klingon language #the klingon dictionary #new vocabulary #dr marc okrand #klingon #qapla' #nuqneh #jagh DajeymeH nIteb yISuvrup

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

neqjung wa’DIch jaj botIvjaj Happy First Contact Day!

Celebrating First Contact between the Klingons and Earthers, on this day in 2151.

Also, rest easy, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, the actor, taken from us back on December 11 2020.

#The Daily Klingon #Klingon #tlhIngan Hol #The Klingon Dictionary #Klingon language #Dr Marc Okrand #nuqneH #Qapla'

[firstroseofspring]

memory, death and life as komerex zha, the perpetual game; klingon culture as depicted in the final reflection, by john m. ford

#star trek #web weaving #klingons #im normal about this. i swear. #please read the final reflection. 99 cents on kindle right now. i read it in one sitting very fun very entertaining very insightful #and spocks in it. if you even care #is that last quote not soo sarek coded. 'im gonna destroy you in this game son. every time until you learn not to lose so badly #but you will still lose. <3' #house gensa forever house rustazh foreverrr #klingonaase my darling i love you you're sooo latin coded #i really liked the singing and the idea of like gestures vaguely house gensa being three hundred kids with no formal houses or lines #to belong to. <- and so you will all be together. yayy new family! #i also liked the acknowledgment of like. other cultures existing on klinzhai (qo'nos) vulcans and orions living with klingons and such #this book really had it all im not done posting. theres more songs and looks at their food; daily life; clothing and how they decorate #houses. more examples of klingonaase lol of course cuss words and such. they also talk about battle language which if i'm not mistaken is #like clipped tlhIngan? #but they call it battle language and translate it for the reader. fun! #and of course the klingons end up on earth so theres insights on how they feel about coffee and human food. apparently the air on earth is #very thin and dry to them; every scene where they talk about klingon comfort standards they mention making it dark and humid and hot. #red lights and such! for inside #and they say the thin air on earth makes it hard to hear for klingons! i thought that was very cool #nobody: #me: they like salt water baths and dark ale and they wear silk and they eat pastries with butter. if you even care. #they mention human chair designs being uncomfortable for klingon anatomy too; there was a description i remember of house khemara #having cushions on the ground around a fireplace instead of chairs #its such a pretty description too; they have high ceilings and wooden beams along the roof and and sky lights for an indoor garden #iron railings for the staircases. mwah i love this book i really recommend it #theres something (gestures) here that reminds me very strongly of worf but i cant put my finger on it to be honest with you. not even like #the komerex zha specifically either like the vibes of the whole book.....

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

Medical log, stardate 18935.15. Once more have I seen the tailor go out in his lizard fashion—

#least funny way to make this joke BUT. look how much thought I put into that stardate! #Star Trek: Deep Space 9 #it would be so much easier to listen to the new audiodrama podcast of drac daily instead of reading but unfortunately #our dear solicitor will forever sound exactly like our dear doctor to me now because somehow it has become Hot Reptile Summer in my brain #and everything is melting together like changeling soup. and this is BEFORE the gomens s2 premiere. christ. #Dracula: How dare you touch him!! This man belongs to me!! I too can love!!! #me reading All That: omg just like in all my favorite ''Garak saves Julian from other Cardassians'' fanfics :3 #god I love how as far as I know there's literally nothing in canon to support any of our weird kinky #''claiming a mate by leaving a bite mark scar on their neck'' or any of that other fanon stuff for Cardassians #it's not like with the Klingon dicks or Vulcan pon farr. anybody could make up absolutely anything about Cardassians #and every single writer I've ever read has chosen shit like mating bites scent marking egg laying #and of course. glowing blue WAP with a built in strap. I fucking love you Deep Space 9 fandom there will never be another like you!!!!!! #Starky's Original Posts #Dracula Daily #COMPUTER. ERASE LOG.

[takunwilliams]

WORF 

Star Trek 

#star trek #worf #alien #klingon #lasers #tvshow #popart #print #ink #warhol #neon #sketchbook' #daily #sketching #face #mask #black man

[goofyjelly]

GuH

#i tried to do something semi considerate but it just ended up being awkward #also ha i capitalized the H (im learning klingon if y'all couldnt tell) #in Klingon almost all the Hs are capitalized #k maybe not ALL #but yk #gotta get my daily duolingo klingon in

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Tumblr in the Star Trek universe [dashboard simulator]

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cute date ideas for this Valentine's Day: bring your significant other back from the dead with an ancient Vulcan ritual <3 <3 <3

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this is illogical

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#get wrecked lol #op is right that is a cute date idea

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reblog if you kinda want a borg to step on you

#tw borg

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I just found out this website has several "stan accounts" of my teacher Mr. Spock. Why are you like this

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in our defence, your teacher is hot

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I do not understand how his temperature is related to the topic

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starfleet heritage post ( 8130.3 / 22 March 2285)

#starfleet heritage post #20k

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some hand drawing practice

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hello vulcanblr

#my art #posts that got surprisingly popular

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going on a diplomatic mission and the ENTERPRISE is transporting us?? CANNOT believe I am on the flagship right now, like when have I done anything noteworthy

✨replicatedstardust

update: we got kidnapped by a Q

#travel blog #please help

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KLINGONS WITH SMALL FOREHEAD RIDGES ARE HONOURABLE KLINGONS WITH LARGE FOREHEAD RIDGES ARE HONOURABLE KLINGONS WITH NO FOREHEAD RIDGES ARE HONOURABLE

#klingon affiramtions #positivity #positive affirmation #you are beautiful and honourable

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#dashboard simulator #unreality #fake tumblr dash #star trek #zohar illogic time

[professional-termite]

imagine if the star trek tos gang had tumblr lol

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mannnn why are vulcans so.... ahfhfjfj lik????

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Hello captain.

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sPOCKWHEN DJD YOU GET TUMBLR

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Dr. McCoy reccommended this app to me this morning.

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okkkk i think me and dr mccoy need to have a TALK

#in the meantime i need to purge this blog eughhhh

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rb for reach!!

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RUSSIAN ANTHEM SWEEEP!!! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

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who tf submitted a mitski song

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i did. it reminded me of how @'cptnjtkirk feels about @'1stofficerspock :]

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What?

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IGNOREE HIM PLEEASE

#bones istg

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if the enterprise was a woman id want her to sit on my face

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wRONG BLOG

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abt to go on my first mission, wish me luck!!

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med bay

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this is a callout post for @'cptnjtkirk hes a vulcan fucker and a war criminal

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you say that like theyre equally bad..?

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they are.

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too bad im not actually either of those things lmao

#i wish... #not about the war criminak thing obv i mean #wait dammit spock can see this blog nvm

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Posting Russian things every day, day 567: Nevsky potatoes!

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they look stupid

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i have your family name and home coordinates. you have 3 days to delete that post.

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ay, laddy...@'cptnjtkirk said to quit yer fighting!

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stfu ur in love with an ugly ass spaceship

#istg you starfleet ppl are like asking to get bullied or smthn #not my fault ur easy targets

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@'klingon-soldier-6 's full dox

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@'cptnjtkirk Sir, there's an asteroid coming towards the ship at an alarming speed! 3 hours until impact!

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cant we just move out of the way.? or blow it up

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I can't, sir! Our controls are all jammed!

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can confirm, @'cptnjtkirk sir!! nothings working!!

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how?? how could this have happened???

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:3

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shit

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"ooo mccoy what do i do" "oooh mccoy im in love with my first officer" "ooh mccoy--" boi stfu im a surgeon not a matchmaker

#go talk to someone else if you want help with that bucko #bones rambles

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i wish people would stop vagueposting about me :( at least @ me if ur gonna say something rude

#personal

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@'cptnjtkirk is a massive simp

#not what i meant but thanks i guess

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#star trek #star trek tos #spirk #long post #dashboard simulator #fake post #unreality #leonard mccoy #leonard bones mccoy #james t kirk #captain kirk #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #hikaru sulu #nyota uhura #montgomery scott #scotty star trek #pavel chekov #someones probably already done something like this #but this has been sitting in my notes app forever #and i spent way too long figuring out how to format it #so here ya go

[milfleeta]

ds9 missed the chance to do an episode of the daily lives of the promenade merchants. quark and garak get into a disagreement when quark puts up an obnoxious new sign in front of the bar. garak declares it an eyesore that’s ruining business for everyone. the entire ep is them quipping at each other and seeing who can get their petition signed first. cut to crazy shenanigans of them making their case to a wide range of merchants with increasingly hilarious results. the number of signatures remains a tie until the klingon chef is all that remains. he sides with garak after garak says something that could either be a threat or a proposition for sex. the episode ends with quark taking down the sign, and he and garak commiserate over their shared businessman woes.

and idk maybe the b-plot is sisko and lwaxana switching bodies

#ds9 #deep space 9 #the daily lives of the mall staff

[isagrimorie]

People give Janeway guff about not giving Kazon replicators and transporters. Still, it's proven repeatedly that giving one Kazon faction an advantage over the other would be mixing it up in an internal war that would LITERALLY shift the balance of power.

Klingons at least know the technology they have engineers, even as it's becoming a dying breed over Warriors.

TLDR in Alliance Chakotay and Tuvok convinces Janeway that making an alliance with a Kazon faction is the way to go.

And so she does finally concede on this little experiment but with a lot of reservations going in: That once they leave the infighting will go on, and might actually have been worse.

Tuvok naively thinks it might help and bring about a Federation.

B'Elanna then pushes forward Harry's sarcastic comment about forming an alliance with Seska and then at the first sign of this, Chakotay balks.

And then Janeway says something that I feel is her guiding principle in dealing with hard decisions:

Janeway: "You can't have it both ways Commander. If you want to get in the mud with the Kazon you can't start complaining that you might get dirty."

Again, this is what I love about Janeway -- she gets flack for it but when Janeway makes a decision no one else wants to make it.

As I've mentioned in another post in tags: #right or wrong#i admire how janeway is always the one#who goes#the buck stops with me#she makes the hard choices on voyager#especially during debates#when the staff just goes around and around in circles#like in memorial where she starts just in the background#listening to the senior staff debate#from how janeway started in episode 2 of season 1#where she's presented with the horrific#sophie's choice of neelix dying because he has no lungs#and then subjecting another person to the same fate#to the (now boring debate about tuvix)#to this moment#to the moment on the memorial episode#she will take on that burden#and she will always stare at the hardest choice unflinchingly#because someone has to#as the 12th doctor once said#sometimes all your choices are bad ones#but you still have to choose#

In this episode, she allowed herself to be persuaded but she's not sold on it. But she's letting her crew run with it -- okay so we do this, but if we do this, we commit to it. And yet, at the first uncomfortable decisions... there's already balking. This was Janeway testing the waters if any other person on her senior staff could carry water about making the hard choices.

So far the ones who have stepped up were B'Elanna, Tom, and Neelix.

Anyway, I wish there was more fallout on the whole Kazon vs Trabe conflict because that was actually interesting.

But also Voyager had a Doctor Who problem -- if they meddle in the affairs of a spatial politik, they don't know the repercussions of their actions and just look at Living Witness and the reputation Voyager gained simply by doing a bit of a trade deal.

Voyager can help when they can, see: helping Brenari refugees escape the Devore. (Counterpoint).

But they can't and shouldn't really interfere with internal politics. They're not like DS9 where they can stay in one place and fix things permanently. They're just passing through.

This is also why I think she wasn't really considering Tuvok and Chakotay's thing during the Void episode where they raid another ship's resources. (Also, because after Ransom and Equinox, she knows what faltering in the Federation principles can do).

Crucially, she's also known both Chakotay and Tuvok enough that while she loves them -- Janeway knows neither men have the stomach for their proposals.

The Alliance episode was one example of that already.

Janeway, though, if she is pushed to make that commitment and there was absolutely NO way they can prevent raiding others-- Janeway would have committed to that action 110%. This is why I feel Janeway would actually come to a similar conclusion as Sisko in In the Pale Moonlight.

Especially, if she gets daily reports of Starfleet casualties. I have a feeling, there would be less kicking and screaming when Garak finally does his reveal.

Janeway has rules for a reason. She is fastidious about it. For a reason. Because once she commits to an action, it will take both hell and high water to take her off that course.

/edited

#star trek voyager #kathryn janeway #voyager s2 #(what is it about briefing room scenes in early seasons #why is it so inert? the only thing keeping the scene #interesting was kate mulgrew's force of personality)

[duothelingo]

If you don't believe in Fr*nce why does Duolingo have a Fr*nch language course

I swear I answer this daily.

We also teach Klingon

[daily-klingon]

There’s absolutely a Klingon out there who lost an eye to a feral cat that he then adopted.

vIghro’ animal resembling a cat (n) tera’ vIghro’ cat (n)

#The Daily Klingon #Klingon #tlhIngan Hol #The Klingon Dictionary #Klingon language #Dr Marc Okrand #nuqneH #Qapla'

[chaotic-hypnotic-erotic]

Bed

I am off to bed early.

Goodnight, everybody.

#The Daily Klingon #Klingon #tlhIngan Hol #The Klingon Dictionary #Klingon language #Dr Marc Okrand #nuqneH #Qapla'

[trillscienceofficer]

man I didn't want to admit it but it's absolutely true that complaining about aspects of Star Trek that were actually addressed on Voyager multiple times is basically its own genre of tumblr post. They do consume contemporary media on that ship; B'Elanna reads pulpy Klingon romance novels, Naomi plays holodeck programs for kids. Since they're so isolated they even make their own stuff up in order to entertain the crew! Neelix's daily shows and Tom's new holodeck programs definitely count as contemporary media. idk I think some of you guys just need to watch Star Trek: Voyager

[android-and-ale]

Writing Patterns

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern! Thanks @affixjoy and @flippyspoon!

I'm new to Trek, so I don't yet have 10.

1 “Have a seat, son.” (One (1) Daily Shoulder Pat, AOS, Spirk Endgame)

2. Spock collapsed onto Jim, panting. (Discounts at Starbaase One, TOS, Spirk)

3. Jim twisted in a rough circle, laughing as his arms tangled in his uniform. (External Existence, TOS, Spirk)

4. Vriha sat on the damp stone bench, three feet from T’Pila. (T'Ruth and Consequence, TNG/DS9 Era, OC Vulcan and Romulan sapphic teens)

5. Jim’s hands closed around Spock’s biceps.  (Not In Front Of The Klingons, TOS, Old Married Spirk)

6. Jim took another long drink of his rum spiked vegan hot chocolate, beaming as his brother lied his way to winning another game of Dreidel. (Replicator Roulette, SNW, Spirk)

7. The overhead lights in Starbase 11’s officer’s lounge flashed three times before dimming. (Captain's Logs, TOS, Stealthy Spirk)

Interesting. I rarely start with dialog, even though my fics themselves are very talky. It seems I like to begin with some characters in motion.

My first sentences definitely don't set up the whole fic, but they do usually help set the scene. My second sentence is often a lot more punchy.

This is a fascinating exercise! Show us what you've got!

@indeedcaptain, @uhuraprime, @schattengestalt, @spongynova, @wren-of-the-woods

#writing pattern game #my fanfic #star trek #spirk

[rainbowresurrection]

Still Thinking.

In TOS there was a lot of promise on fleshing out the Vulcan culture. You get phrases in Vulcan before you ever get any phrases in Klingon. Which makes it interesting that moving forward, you learn much more about the Klingon language.

As a language lover I'd be interested to know what the body of the Vulcan language would have looked like, had it been more officially explored. You know it would be filled with dichotomy, due to the ancient and ritualistic roots of the language versus the need for utmost logic, which would influence both grammatical structure and the writing system(s).

From what I've seen, the writing leans far more on the "ancient tradition" end of things. It's beautiful, yet it is lacking in terms of practicality.

I like to imagine that they would have multiple modes of writing- the loopy cursive writing for religious and cultural / ceremonial practices, and maybe a more standardized and phonetic script for daily use (likely to also be vertical and cursive, but can be written horizontally as well). Also I'm not sure how phonetic it is to begin with so I'm just making shit up here.

Well I know one thing for sure, they have at least 2 scripts, based on the writing seen on Spock's robes vs other scenarios (perhaps Old Vulcan or Ceremonial Vulcan).

Another fun thing I like to imagine is that perhaps Vulcan follows a root based system like Hebrew or Arabic. For example in the male names, the most common denominator is S----K or S--R--K.

SpocK, SaReK, SuRaK

Women, it is the letter T.

T'Pring, T'Pau

Both genders use the consonant P.

sPock, t'Pring

So, those consonants could be based on a certain shared notion, whereas the vowels change the nuance of the translation.

Arabic (Modern Standard) example, paying attention to the consonants:

KeTeBe = writing

KiTaaB = book

MeKTaB = desk

MeKTaBe = library

(sorry for the weak transliterations, it makes more sense looking at it in Arabic, you'll see the commonality in the consonants):

كتب

كتاب

مكتب

مكتبة

#ramble #vulcan culture #klingon #star trek #linguistics #i love language homies #looove it #my romanizations might look weird because I have to rely on the accent of my arabic professor to romanize #and arabic dialects vary a Lot #my Prof is from Iraq and she has a cool accent. i just try to copy how she says stuff so I have a consistent accent #im not sure how much accents affect FusHa tbh