[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: maghpub

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, January 27, 2025

Klingon word: maghpub
Part of speech: noun
Definition: novel
Source: qep'a' 26 [2019]
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AFAIK not used in a sentence.

KLINGON CULTURE:
   Worf gave Data a leather-bound copy of the classic Klingon novel _The Dream of the Fire_ by K'Ratak as a going-away present saying, "It was in the hands of the Klingons that the novel attained its full stature." (TNG "Measure of a Man")

TREK NOTES:
  "Logic is an integral part of narrative structure.  According to _The Dictates of Poetics_ by T'hain of Vulcan, a character's actions must flow inexorably from his or her established traits." (Tuvok, VOY "Worst Case Scenario")

  "I can hear the critics already:  'A new voice has arrived.'  You could be the next K'Ratak or a modern-day Tolstoy."  (Broht, a Bolian publisher based Earth to The Doctor [VOY "Author, Author"].)

   A copy of the U.S. novel _Hotel Royale_ was carried by Colonel Stephen G. Richey of NASA on board his ship the Charybdis in 2037. When Richey's ship crashed on the planet Theta VIII in 2044, an unknown alien force created a physical representation of the novel, including the hotel and all its characters, in an artificial environment meant to provide a simulation of normal life for Richey. Unknowingly, the aliens had sentenced Richey to a sort of Hell, dooming him to live the remainder of his life in the world of the novel with its poorly written characters and no real Human interaction. Richey described it in a diary entry as being "a badly written book, filled with endless cliché and shallow characters." Data reviewed it thusly: "The writing is elementary, the plotting predictable, the characters one-dimensional." (TNG "The Royale")

   Cardassian literature included novels that reflect Cardassian values, such as family, duty and the glorification of the state. Examples include _The Never Ending Sacrifice_, a "repetitive epic" spanning seven generations of the history of a Cardassian family which displayed selfless obedience to Cardassia (Garak pronounced it "Without a doubt the finest Cardassian novel ever written" [DS9 "The Wire"];  _Meditations on a Crimson Shadow_, a novel by Preloc set in the future concerning a war between the Cardassian and Klingon Empires [DS9 "The Wire"]; and the _Enigma Tales_ of Shoggoth, a series of mysteries in which all of the suspects were guilty but the trick is in figuring out of what (demonstrating the presumed infallibility of the Cardassian justice system).  Elim Garak was a great fan of Cardassian literature and tried unsuccessfully on many occasions to interest Julian Bashir in these works but the Bashir preferred human mystery and spy novels to Cardassian enigma tales. (DS9 "Distant Voices")

  "You really must stop reading those human crime novels Chief O'Brien gives you. It's poisoning your thinking. I'm not here to threaten you. I just want to talk." (Garak to Odo, DS9 "The Die is Cast")

SEE ALSO:
torSIv 		fiction (n)
tlhub 		climax (n)
paq		book (n)
lut 		story (n)
lut'a' 		epic (n)
wIch 		myth, legend (n)
qun 		history (n)

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."  (Jane Austen, _Northanger Abbey_)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons