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3 Kinga class batts cruiser (ST.TMP) Bird-ol-Prey (ST II) A D7 type bale cruiser ("The Enterprise Incident” [TOS]) that celebrated the ancient victory of Kahless the Unforgettable alternate timeline was excised when the Enterprise-C returned to over the tyrant Molor. (“Firstborn™ [TNG]). In 2370 on Deep its “original” place in history, and did indeed render aid at Space 9, Jake Sisko complained to his father Benjamin that he Narendra lil in 2344. (“Yesterday's Enterprise” [TNG]) hated studying Klingon opera in school. Ben did, too. (“The Alternate” [DS9)). Worf enjoyed Klingon opera, and often played Klingon weapons. The Klingon warrior uses a curious combinait very loudly through the Defiant’s sound system. He particularly tion of extremely sophisticated armament and ancient traditional liked the performance of Barak-Kadan. (“Looking for par'Mach in weapons. All the Wrong Places” [DS9)) Klingonese. Spoken and written language of the Klingon of \ | Klingon skull stew. Delicacy avail- Empire; a harsh, guttural tongue. Korax once boasted that half — able at the Replimat on station the quadrant was learning to speak Klingonese because there Deep Space 9. Skull stew was never was no doubt in his mind that the Klingon Empire would domimentioned in dialog, but a photo of nate the galaxy. (“The Trouble with Tribbles” [TOS]). The Kiingon this delicious dish, created by scenic language had no word for “peacemaker” until the Klingons 12 artist Doug Drexler, was seen on the encountered mediator Riva, who helped negotiate several wall of the Replimat. treaties between the Klingons and the Federation. ("Loud as a Whisper” [TNG]). The spoken Klingon language used in most of - Klingon spacecraft. A spaceborne the Star Trek motion pictures and Star Trek: The Next Generation Ny culture, the Klingon Empire has a episodes was invented by linguist Marc Okrand. For more inforwide variety of spacecraft used for mation about the Klingon language, please refer to Okrand's defense, exploration, and com- book, The Klingon Dictionary, published by Pocket Books. AS merce. (Okrand notes that not all the Klingon-language words on the show have come {rom his book. He speculates that different Klingon War (alternate). In the alternate timeline created when Klingon provinces have different dialects.) the Enterprise-C vanished from its “proper” place in 2344, the Federation and the Klingon Empire engaged in a terrible war, Klingons. Humanoid warrior civilization (“Errand of Mercy" which might have been prevented had the Enterprise-C rendered [TOS]), originally from the planet Qo'noS; a proud, traditionaid to the Klingon outpost at Narendra Ill. Over the next 22 bound people who value honor, The aggressive Klingon culture years, some 40 billion people lost their lives, and over half of the has made them an interstellar military power to be respected and Starfleet was destroyed. By 2366, Starfleet Command anticipat- feared There Is no equivalent of the devil in Klingon mythology ed that the Federation would be defeated within six months. This (“Day of the Dove" [TOS]), although a beast known as Fek'lhr is