ummthatguy@lemmy.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agoAs the figures trickle in, let's distract ourselves a bitlemmy.worldimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageAs the figures trickle in, let's distract ourselves a bitlemmy.worldummthatguy@lemmy.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoYou have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-216 days agoDoes anyone know how this joke came to be?
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoFrom Undiscovered Country Why it was specifically used there, I couldn’t tell you.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoI’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoFound it per wiki: The film’s director Nicholas Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany’s attempt to claim William Shakespeare as German before World War II.
minus-squareSatyrSack@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoDid Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days ago Then Christopher Plummer’s daughter Amanda with a wonderful villainous appearance in Picard!
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoI had never realized she was his daughter. I need a Trek themed “mind exploding” gif for this.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·16 days agoPerfection. You are a master at your craft.
You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon
Does anyone know how this joke came to be?
From Undiscovered Country
Why it was specifically used there, I couldn’t tell you.
I’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
Found it per wiki:
Fascinating.
Did Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
We gotta go deeper
Then Christopher Plummer’s daughter Amanda with a wonderful villainous appearance in Picard!
I had never realized she was his daughter.
I need a Trek themed “mind exploding” gif for this.
Perfection.
You are a master at your craft.