[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: toDDuj

[Steven Boozer]

Since the line accidentally appeared twice in the ST5 shooting script, Okrand re-parsed one of them as:

  vaj toDuj Daj ngeHbej DI vI' 
  Shooting space garbage is no test of a warrior's mettle. 
  ["Sharpshooting of the cosmos' litter inconclusively tests a warrior's courage."] TKW 

... and later commented on it in KGT:

(KGT 50):  Captain Klaa, who took it upon himself to take revenge against the Federation's Captain James T. Kirk, remarked that he needed a real challenge to test a warrior's mettle, or {vaj toDuj} (literally, "warrior courage"). He was not referring to his own courage or that of any specific warrior (which would have been, in all likelihood, {SuvwI' toDuj}), but rather to the kind of courage embodied in being a warrior.

SEE:
toD  		rescue,  save (v) (TKD)
toD  		rescue (n) (TKD Addendum) 

SEE ALSO:
vaj  		warrior,  warriorhood (n) 
toDuj  		courage, bravery;  mettle (S32) (n)
Daj  		test inconclusively (v)
ngeHbej  	cosmos (n)
DI  		litter, rubble (TKD Addendum), debris, garbage (n)
vI'  		sharpshooting, marksmanship, aim (n)

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Voragh

-----------------------------------Original Message-----------------------------------
From: SuStel via tlhIngan-Hol
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2024 9:06 AM

The word is first used in Star Trek V (vaj toDDujDaj ngeHbej DIvI' - That means the Federation will be sending a rescue ship of its own), but it is first published in HolQeD 8:4, December 1999, ten years later.

On 8/29/2024 10:00 AM, Klingon Word of the Day via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> Klingon word: toDDuj
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: rescue ship
> Source: