Klingon word: tuch rItwI' Part of speech: noun Definition: prophet Source: Email from Lieven 2018-01-01 _______________________________________________ tuch future, the future (as a whole) (n) rIt summon (v) (Lieven, 1/01/2018): Next, we talked about a prophet. Not the religious person like Jesus or Mohammed, but more some kind of a person who seems to be able to see or know things that others can't. Okrand forwarded this from Maltz: This is a {tuch rItwI'} (or, if the context is clear, {rItwI'} for short). {tuch rIt} means to prophesize, see the future, know the future. For Klingons, the prophet is able to 'summon' the future somehow. ... the term {tuch rItwI'} should be seen more literally as a future-teller or a predicter. I think it would seem strange that if you translate a Bible verse and end up with future-teller Jesus. To me, the prophet from a Bible sounds a bit like a holy person sent by god or so, and that's absolutely unrelated to {tuch rItwI'}. It may work, but I was only pointing that here, it's not really a religious term... TREK TRIVIA: MIRROR-SPOCK: One man cannot summon the future. KIRK: But one man can change the present. (TOS "Mirror, Mirror") T'POL: Vulcans have a saying: "One man can summon the future." (ENT "United") -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons