Imagine the government asking counter-terrorism agents to learn Klingon! These agents must have gotten a good laugh over this.:)

I guess the government watches JAG. On a JAG episode
last season, "Bud" convinced a captured Al Qaeda
terrorist to talk by discussing their mutual love of
Star Trek. Their philosophical discussion began with
the concept of IDIC-Infinite Diversity in Infinite
Combinations.

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"The Force will be with you...Always."
Obi-Wan Kenobi

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Man, oh man, "The Daily Show" is bound to jump all over this tidbit. "The study of fictional languages"??? Why?! More power to you if you get off on this stuff, but could someone please explain why you would bother "learning" Klingon in the first place? Or Elvish, for that matter? Look, I'm a STAR TREK fan since as far back as I can remember. I've watched all the episodes of the Classic series and TNG at least twice. When I was in high school and flunking out with the ladies, I used to pass the time making obligatory lists of all the episodes. I made models. I bought posters. I even accumulated a little army of Playmates action figures at one time. But I never, EVER felt the desire to "learn" Klingon. Or go to jury duty dressed in a Starfleet uniform. Or to learn the combination code to Kirk's safe. Or paint pictures of TREK "erotica" (the picture of Data and Yar I saw at a convention once, with Yar in her panties about to mount a nude Data, will haunt me for the rest of my days). I don't mean to be cruel, but WHAT is the appeal? I'm just curious, 'cause I just don't understand it. I never took myself so seriously that I needed to be addressed as a "Trekker." I haven't memorized all the actors birthdays and I can't tell you where Roddenberry went to school as a kid. Does that make me an unfit-TREK fan? Isn't it possible to just enjoy the various series and movies without absorbing all the minutae like a sponge? Am I a self-hating Trekkie? Who knows. Hey, I know TREK fans always get a bad rap. I'd like to defend most of them. But then I hear about these "Klingonists"... I just end up scratching my head in befuddlement.

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...get Enterprise shown on al-Jazeera!

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I thought it was officially written for Star Trek VI?

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Nemesis had all the right buttons there waiting to be pressed, but like Data on a Reman keypad Paramount seem to have pushed the wrong ones. :/

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The origin of the Klingon language can be traced further back, to "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" in 1979. James Doohan created the Klingon language spoken by the Klingon captain (played by Mark Lenard) in the opening scenes of the film.

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