pets on star ships?

[F. King Daniel]

Blah blah blah

Timo Saloniemi

Blah blah blah

Sando Sandoniemi

But it's still not a targ.

 

[Sandoval]

But it's still not a targ.

Yep. Definitely a Targ.

 

[Timo]

Time for your medication?

Also, not a targ. And why the capital letter? We don't spell species names that way.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Sandoval]

Time for your medication?

That's not for hours.

Also, not a targ. And why the capital letter? We don't spell species names that way.

timo saloniemi

Oh it's most definitely a Targ.

Sando Sandoniemi

 

[Timo]

That's getting pretty old now, dontcha think?

Anyway, it's definitely a kurg. You know, the thing that eats targ for breakfast and then flosses with sehlat?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Vanyel]

It's a Klingon cat.

 

[7thsealord]

... And so I now find myself wondering what the Klingon equivalent of 'Garfield' is like.

 

[Vanyel]

He doesn't kill on Mondays and likes to eat Bregit Lung

 

[Therin of Andor]

Besides, "Targ" was coined in 1987 on TNG, a full 3 years after TSFS' premiere. Going back and fannishly retconning Kruge's pet into a Targ doesn't make it such to anyone but the person doing the retconning. I used to call it Kruge's Dino Dog, but I never insisted that was the real name of it. We don't know WHAT it is other than "Kruge's Pet."

The SPFX guys on ST III called it Fifi Rebozo. The novelization called it Warrigul (Australian Aboriginal for dingo, which is a native dog.) A lot of publicity material called it a dog/lizard. When the "Star Trek Adventure" at Universal Studios was putting a child inside one, they were crediting the performer as playing the "puppy/lizard".

Surely, Kruge's pet has more in common with the snarling, white Rura Penthe "jackal/mastiffs" of ST VI than the boar-like Targ of TNG?

EDIT: Ha! I just checked Memory Alpha, and I now seem to recall adding to some of that article the last time the argument came up here.

 

[xortex]

Can we just call it the Beyonce and be done with it?
Have you tried calling Harve Bennett and asking him?
Whatever it was or wasn't, it has been reimagined since then and will be reimagined again and again until it turns out to be...

So far it's a targ.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Have you tried calling Harve Bennett and asking him?

Why would he call it a targ, though? Targs weren't even invented when ST III was filmed. It's some weird caninoid creature. Targs seem more porcine.

Surely the Klingon Empire is big enough to have more than one breed of half-domesticated animal?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Kruge's lizardlike pet (love the name Wurrigul, btw) had a forked tongue. The piglike targs do not.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Kruge's lizardlike pet (love the name Wurrigul, btw) had a forked tongue. The piglike targs do not.

I'd forgotten that Molly calls her toy targ "Piggy" in DS9. No one would she call Warrigul - or a white ST VI jackal/mastiff - "Piggy".

By the way, the pre-sculpt placeholder for ERTL's Klingon dog was this:


Star Trek III prototype action figures by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

It eventually looked like this:


ERTL Kruge and Klingon pet from Star Trek III by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

 

[F. King Daniel]

- at both Lassie and at Scotty's waist!

That (final) Kruge pet looks really good - far, far better than the gold targ that came with the TNG Gowron (or was it Worf?) figure in the 90's.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

If Gowron owned a targ, would there be glory to it and its doghoooooouuuuuuuuuuuse?

 

[Therin of Andor]

If Gowron owned a targ, would there be glory to it and its doghoooooouuuuuuuuuuuse?

If Gowron had a targ, he'd be happy as a targ in mud.

 

[Vanyel]

It is clearly a bunny rabbit.

 

[EyalM]

Maybe "targ" is just the Klingon word for pet?

 

[T'Girl]

^^^ Actually a very interesting idea. If you look at the the way the word "targ" has been used, "it is a targ," or "I had a targ," it could be interchangeable with "pet."

 

[Finn]

That would make Klingons really lame