In The Undiscovered Country, Chancellor Gorkon claims Shakespeare originally wrote in Klingon (perhaps even that he was Klingon 
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I've always thought this was merely a minor Trek joke... But now I see how someone at that time will be able to hold that misconception...
Source: The Washing Post
Anyone here going to that benefit?
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I've always thought this was merely a minor Trek joke... But now I see how someone at that time will be able to hold that misconception...
How the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon
At the company's annual benefit Sept. 25 in Rosslyn, selections from "Hamlet" and "Much Ado About Nothing" will be performed in the language that was invented for the Klingon characters of the "Star Trek" films. Actors will be speaking the verse in two languages, English and Klingon, and the lines in each will correspond to the Bard's signature meter: iambic pentameter. The translations are courtesy of the Klingon Language Institute, a Pennsylvania group that published "The Klingon Hamlet" several years ago, in addition to composing the Klingon version of "Much Ado About Nothing."
- Eventually all of Shakespeare will be translated into Klingon.
- Trekkies, as the space geeks that we are, will make sure these translations are either transmitted into space or a disc of sorts (gold plated vinyl, cd, dvd, blu-ray???) with the texts will be mounted on some probe.
- A Klingon picks it up and publishes it as his own work.
- Voila! Shakespeare is originally Klingon...
Anyone here going to that benefit?
