The latest episode of Starfleet Academy includes a deep-cut Klingon joke that pays off a 35-year-old reference. The series continues to delight both new and longtime fans by incorporating franchise lore, including a brief glimpse of the Klingon translation of Hamlet.
, has been infusing its coming-of-age cadet tale with tidbits of lore from across the franchise. In addition to recruiting new viewers, the series has thus far been rewarding longtime fans, and, in case you missed it, Episode 8 just paid off a 35-year-old deep-cut Klingon joke.
over three decades in the making, that one hasn’t fully experienced Shakespeare until they’ve read the original Klingon. Thanks to three pages from the Klingon translation of Hamlet, seen ever so briefly in #StarfleetAcademy's "The Life of the Stars"➡️↙️↘️, we can now finally experience Shakespeare in the original Klingon . Or we can just buy the book. 😜. A Shakespeare-quoting Klingon warrior obsessed with human literature, Chang declares to Captain Kirk and company, “You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” Poking fun at Western literature nerds everywhere who claim the original pronunciation is the only real way to read the famous English playwright. Believe it or not, the canonical history of the Klingon language is rather complicated. Marc Okrand created the official Klingon language for Paramount. Only the words and grammar introduced by Marc Okrand or used in movies, TV shows, and his authorized books are considered canonical. However, the real-life Klingon Language Institute, dedicated to studying Okrand’s language, has produced many noncanonical texts, including a translation ofToday, nearly 40 years later, Starfleet Academy’s “The Life of the Stars” finally made it official. During a classroom sequence, a Starfleet display labeled “Active Mode: Theater” briefly shows pages written entirely in Klingon script. Looking closely at the pages, you can see several character names among the alien glyphs, one of them being very distinctly “Hamlet” and another being “Ghost.” Hildebrand’s post links the Hamlet reference directly back to. It even references the Klingon Language Institute’s version of the text, saying, “We can now finally experience Shakespeare in the original Klingon … Or we can just buy the book.”Prime Adds A Cult Classic ‘80s Fantasy Movie That Inspired One of the Best Supernatural Shows of the 2010s
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