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[–] 7 points 12 hours 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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  • [–] 14 points 10 hours 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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  • [–] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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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  • [–] 1 point 3 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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