LAST EDITED ON Mar-20-14 AT 03:09 PM (EDT)
 
>halfassed attempts to transcribe and romanize

Speaking of halfassed romanization, I had occasion to refer to the original Okrand Klingon Dictionary the other day, and in the process reviewed the section on the Klingon phoneome.* As I did, I realized something. In Okrand's Klingon language, capital Q represents a sort of hardcore K sound (there being few other kinds of sound than "hardcore" in Klingon), and there's a note in the section about terms of address indicating that when it appears at the beginnings of names, it usually comes out with an R at the end (so that, for instance, Commander Kruge's name is more accurately romanized "Qugh"). It doesn't do that at the end of words, though.

As such, the famous Starfleet captain's name might best be approximated in romanized Klingon as "cheymS QQ".

I find this curiously appropriate considering how much of his career he spent griefing the Klingons.

--G.
"Cry some more, you Klingon bastard."
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