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To be, or not to be, Glorious (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 62 points 13 hours ago (12 children)

Star Trek theater kid:

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  • [–] 7 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

    I've been under a rock with new Trek since s1 of Disco, when did Klingons get hot? Asking for an actual friend

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  • [–] 13 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 10 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 9 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 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 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 2 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 hour ago

    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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    • [–] 21 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Imagine Klingon honor and discipline being channeled into slam poetry and rap battles.

    Yeah, sounds awesome.

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    • [–] 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    You gotta see the K-pop!

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  • [–] 11 points 10 hours ago

    I mean, we did kinda get Klingon Dubstep in the SNW musical episode…

    Wouldn’t be funny if that incident is what causes Klingon opera to become so centralized culturally? Like, Klingons all have a shameful love of dubstep but the embarrassment that came from this being exposed to Starfleet drives them to go hard on something really “serious” in order to save face.

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    • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago

    Klingon Musical Theatre.

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    [–] 8 points 12 hours ago

    the classic afterparty where they go to a diner and torture the other patrons by singing but instead of a diner it's a seedy bar and instead of the musical torture they pull dishonorable customers limb from limb

    klingon marching band was a thing but once the practice of stabbing anyone who missed their dot came into vogue there weren't any klongon band kids left

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    [–] 5 points 7 hours ago*

    Just because I love it:
    https://youtu.be/CayMeza487M

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    [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    Either they are so dramatic they rarely live to see adulthood or it turns out EVERY klingon is a theater kid and thats why they're all so dramatic.

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