Based on previous usage, the verbs {So'} "hide" and {meQ} "burn" seem to mean both "subject does something to object" and "subject experiences the thing that would've been done to the object" when there is no object. Dr. Okrand told me that the intended meaning of {So'} is that the subject hides the object, and that the TKD example {nuqDaq So'taH yaS} means "Where is the officer hiding [something]?" He apparently messed it up when he simplified the example to focus on the usage of {nuqDaq}. The way it's done in Star Trek Into Darkness, {DaH pIghvamDaq So''eghtaH}, is correct for when someone hides themselves. A {So'wI'} is a device that hides something else, and {yISo'rup} means "prepare to hide [the ship]". (This affects a line in the paq'batlh where {-'egh} will be added in the 2ed.) I think he's a bit reluctant to declare that something in TKD is an error when it can be avoided, so I think what we can say about it is that {So'} usually means the subject hides the object (or hides something in general, if there's no object), but that for reasons unknown, there are rare instances where it's used without an object to mean the subject is hiding itself. (And then we can just ignore the TKD example sentence, since every other example uses the "subject hides object" meaning.) The verb {meQ} is used several times in the paq'batlh. It's also been used several times previously, elsewhere. I presented Dr. Okrand with all of the usages of {meQ} and also several possible definitions corresponding to those usages: "burn, be on fire", "burn, cause to be on fire", "be burnt". He wrote that it would normally have the first definition (and thus {meQmoH} is needed to express setting something on fire). However, due to the influence of {mIQ}, {meQ} is used differently in the context of food preparation. Thus, you could say {to'waQ meQ vutwI'} "the cook burns the tendon" and {Ha'DIbaHmey meQ} "burnt animals", but not *{juH qachDaj meQ} "he burned his house" or *{qach meQ} "a burnt building" (I guess unless you're talking about someone who eats buildings as a part of their cuisine). The paq'batlh consistently uses {meQ} to mean "be on fire" and {meQmoH} to mean "set on fire". -- De'vID