[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: noQ (verb)

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Fri Nov 14 07:44:20 PST 2025


Klingon word: noQ
Part of speech: verb
Definition: be organic
Source: qepHom 2024
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Dep noQ 'oH
It's an organic being.  (Okrand, qepHom 2024)

(qepHom 2024 REQUEST):  [Consisting of organic material, i.e. carbon-based. Not in the sense of organically-grown fruit etc.] 

SEE:
ghav 		carbon (n)

SEE ALSO:
yagh 		organism (n)
yInbogh Dep  	lifeform (n) (DSC)
  -  {yInbogh Dep jemlaHbe' Hoqra'} It's not registering as a lifeform (DSC "Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum")

TREK NOTES:
  "Coffee:  the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it." (Janeway, VOY "Hunters")

  A Federation arbitrator was summoned to the Pathfinder Lab at Starfleet Communications to determine who had legal rights to the Doctor's popular holo-novel "Photons Be Free":  the holographic Doctor or the organic Bolian publisher Mr. Droht. (VOY "Author, Author")

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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