So I added no sounds that you can't find in some human language or other, but you shouldn't find these sounds in the same language. But the people who are going to speak it, the actors, are human. These are not human their language should not be recognizably human. Q: How do you make a language from scratch?Ī: You listen to the lines in the first movie. A year and a half later, they're making "Star Trek III," the producer calls me up and asks if I want to do Klingon. and thinking – and I've said this to other people: I just taught Mr. Friday of that week I coached Leonard Nimoy on his lines. Q: Yay! Do you remember what they paid you?Ī: It was a few hundred dollars. But in post-production, everyone thinks it would be better if they were speaking Vulcan." They wanted a linguist to come and make up gobbledygook that matches the lip movements. When they filmed it, the actors were speaking English. Spock and this female Vulcan character have a conversation. There's this scene in the movie where Mr. She and I go out to lunch, and the fact that I was a linguist came up – I have a PhD in linguistics. They flew me out to L.A., and I was having lunch with a friend who worked at Paramount. The first program we did live was the Oscars, 1982. I was hired to do the Klingon for "Star Trek III."Ī: Because I did Vulcan for "Star Trek II."Ī: My real job, the one that really paid the bills, was closed captioning. In the first movie, the Klingon captain speaks maybe two or three lines. The only thing we knew about the language was character names. What was the state of Klingon when you entered the picture?Ī: In the original series there was no Klingon spoken – the 1960s Captain Kirk series. It's had a quarterly journal, a fiction and poetry magazine, there's a Klingon opera, there are Klingon translations of Shakespeare. Marc Okrand, 69, is often asked how to say "I love you" in Klingon, but the closest phrase is actually "I dis-hate you." The inventor of the “Star Trek” language lives in Washington, D.C.
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