6 Nov
2019
6 Nov
'19
7:41 a.m.
From: Felix Malmenbeck
If it were common to say {loS loch wa'} for "one quarter", Klaa would've said it.
We know that "quarter impulse" and "half impulse" are commonly used on Starfleet
ships, which makes it suitable for the subtitle, but it may be that Klingons (or Klaa in
particular) prefer to give them in percent; perhaps for consistency, perhaps for
accuracy, perhaps simply as a matter of preference.
Certainly Okrand’s preference. I imagine he didn’t want to figure out how fractions work in Klingon when he translated Klaa’s line for the movie. (It took him 30 years to do it; ST5 was copyrighted in 1989.) Voragh