My wife saw that episode for the first time tonight. She is not a fan of Klingon episodes at all, because according to her, they have a very limited vocabulary. She actually wrote it down...
Honor
Die
Disgrace
Drink
Song
Glory
Warrior
Fight
Story
Battle
Empire
(I enjoy Klingon episodes, but I can see how she could oversimply their vocabulary.)
I love Martok, and his line IS perhaps the most obvious thing anyone can say, but he gets a pass because... well, it's Martok.
Despite that, my wife and I have already come up with some obvious things to say...
"When the tv and roku are unplugged, it means there is no electricity powering them."
"When all towels and clothes have been folded, it means the laundry is done."
"When bread has butter on it, it means the bread has been buttered."
"When the sun rises and the sky is light, it means the day is starting."
I laughed a lot at the Roku one.
Worf is the President of the Department of Redundancy Department.
It takes 2, maybe 3 seconds amongst other Klingons for them to have a length-measuring contest.
"Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?"
I kept waiting for a song of glory about his well-regulated intestines. Shall I drink more Prune juice today?
Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?
Or contemplating a glass of blood wine while he downs some prune juice. I got close in "The Way of the Warrior," and Quark.
Do you hear the Cry of the Warrior?
There are two drinks on Kronos--Rahktigino and Blood Wine. That's it.
Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?
Head thumping on table as Kurn talks about safe, comfortable furniture.
Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?
Where is his subscriptions to Klingon bride magazines?
Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?
Captain, we must fire phasers!
Not yet, Mr. Worf.
Ah, Picard, diplomat, dogs of war on a leash!
I want the Captain series, I really do. I want him to be sent to survey a planet, a face appears in the clouds, it looks threatening, so Worf blows the planet to smitherines! The end of the show. Worf learns he can't explore.
The Klingons in the 24th century are terrible. Their stories mirror the redundancies on their bodies. If you stab one heart, the other cries out:
Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?
But, let's complain about an anthropologist marveling at their design of the ship of the dead. Let's cry they suck when we see the art around the actual burial ceremony, not just Worf, on some distant Federation ship or space station, rolling back a warrior's eyes, and yowling to the dead a warrior comes to Sto-Vo-Kor. Let's scoff at knowing there are 24 houses, that they warred after Kahless died. Let's forget all that because they don't look like yesteryear's Klingons, as if we didn't do this previously for 25 actual years. Let's destroy the antagonists--the xenophobes--in a show called "Discovery."
Do you hear the cry of the Warrior?
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