Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, April 06, 2017
Klingon word: ruDelya' rop'a' Part of speech: noun Definition: Rudellian plague Source: Klingon Monopoly, published 1 November 2011
qarDaSQa'Daq ruDelya' rop'a' Hergh qengbogh yo' Dabot. Intercept Rudellian plague relief convoy to Cardassian Union. (MKE) TREK TRIVIA: Qu'Vat Colony was the site of a genetics research facility in the 22nd century where Dr Antaak was attempting to create Klingon Augments. Fleet Admiral Krell threatened to wipe out the colony after Antaak's team produced a highly contagious fatal viral plague. (ENT "Affliction" & ENT "Divergence") When a Klingon landing party returned from an unnamed planet after being infected with a lethal silicon-based virus, their captain destroyed their shuttlecraft in orbit rather than let them infect the mother ship. (ENT "Observer Effect") SEE: rop disease, sickness (n) ropyaH infirmary (n) ropyaH qach hospital (n) SEE ALSO: javtIm virus (n) lerup bacterium, bacteria (n) ngej infect (v) rop be sick, be ill (v) pIvHa' be unhealthy (v) vor cure (v) pIv be healthy (v) -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons