<div dir="ltr"><div><div>It doesn't necessarily take a centralized police force to arrest someone. Simple security officers would take up this position on starships, and I suppose Qo'noS might have something similar (remember the Klingon forces hunting Harrison in Star Trek Into Darkness) and then threatening/warning the Enterprise crewmembers.<br><br></div>After Kirk and McCoy failed to keep chancellor Gorkon alive, they were taken into custody by the crew of the Klingon ship. This act could well be described as {qop}.<br><br></div>- André<br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-31 19:25 GMT+01:00 Ed Bailey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com" target="_blank">bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Steven Boozer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, October 31, 2016<br>
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> Klingon word: qop<br>
> Part of speech: verb<br>
> Definition: arrest<br>
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</span>AFAIK never used in a sentence.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And I see no evidence in Star Trek that Klingons have any kind of permanent police force, though suspects are taken into custody and courts are convened to try them.<br><br>So perhaps {qop} is used in the more general sense of the word "arrest," causing motion or some other process to be halted. One might then say ?{HachchoHghach qoplu'bogh} for arrested development.<br><br></div><div>~mIp'av <br></div></div></div></div>
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