[88117] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: 'u': the first authentic Klingon opera on earth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Jul 29 10:47:00 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:41:16 -0500
In-Reply-To: <F52986192E9FE346B0B7EF3D6F98E8771D3C77@EXDB3.ug.kth.se>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Okrand's "Message to Kronos":
poH tuj bI'reS nungbogh wa' jaj qeylIS DIS chorghvatlh loSmaH jav qaStaHvIS. [sic!]
In the days that follow the summer solstice in the Year of Kahless 846.
>naHQun:
>> 846? I thought we were in 636. Huh.
>> (I'm willing to be wrong on this point)
Felix:
>Year 636 is what you get when you take 2373 as Year 999 and assume that a
>Klingon year is the same length as a Terran one.
>(2373-2010)/(999-846)—2,37, so the Klingon year would appear to be about
>2,37 times as long as a Terran year.
For those interested, our only known Klingon date comes from DS9 "Soldiers of the Empire":
Worf said that the IKS Rotarran's mission began on the "53rd day of the year of Kahless 999". (Was that 2373 CE?)
FWIW Keith R.A. DeCandido (who consults with Okrand) pegs the events of his 2004 novel _I.K.S. Gorkon, Book 3: Enemy Territory_ as occurring mid Year of Kahless 1001, late 2376 Federation year, 10 months after the events of the last episode of DS9.
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
