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    This is weird to me because the “read him in the original Klingon” implies Shakespeare was first written in Klingon, and then translated into Eng….

    Oh, now it makes sense. 9th grade me can rest easier now.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I believe the “in-universe” understanding is that “original Klingon” is referring to an archaic form of the language. But then, ol’ Bill did have quite the forehead on him…

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  • [–] 17 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I always liked to think that some klingons truly do believe that some tales could only have come from a klingon mind, and that the work must have originally been a klingon work that was lost and then stolen by other species.

    Really, would that be the most ridiculous thing klingons believe?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Yeah, I always interpreted it as jingoist propaganda. They poked fun at Chekhov a couple of times in TOS for similar Soviet propaganda like “it was a Russian inwention!”

    Basically, a culture so sure of their own superiority that they assume any great cultural accomplishments must be their own.

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    I think it's poking fun at the controversy surrounding the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. There's a whole bunch of theories about who actually wrote them/who Shakespeare actually was.

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  • I mean, it's completely possible in the Star Trek timeline that Shakespeare actually was a Klingon altered to look human and then sent back in time for some reason. The doctors make people look like other species fairly regularly, and time travel is a regular plot point. There's no canonical reason why Shakespeare couldn't have literally been a Klingon.

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