[84993] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon stardates?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Aug 14 15:31:51 2008
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:27:47 -0500
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marqoS:
> But this is all way off topic. What would Klingons call "stardates"?
> I don't think we have a canon word for that. We can't infer {'ejpoH}.
> {DIvI' poH}, maybe?
Actually {HovpoH} is listed in KGT. As used in canon:
HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'
[This ship was demonstrated on Stardate 9521.6 but it was destroyed.] S33
tera' poH jaj wa', jar wa', jaj loSDIch, DIS wa'-Hut-Hut-chorgh:
HovpoHvetlh latlh nab yIHutlh
Save this Stardate: Sunday, January 4, 1998. STX
From my notes:
The Star Trek Encyclopedia CD-ROM defines "stardate" thusly: "Timekeeping system used to provide a standard galactic temporal reference, compensating for relativistic time dilation, warp-speed displacement, and other peculiarities of interstellar space travel. (To those interested in the minutiae of stardate computation ... we shamelessly refer you to Appendix I in the 1996 edition of our book, _Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future_, by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda)..."
See "Stardates in Star Trek Mini-FAQ" at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/star-trek/stardates/
For one system for computing Klingon stardates see:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ngabwi/
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
