Related perhaps to TOS The Empath? McCoy's nickname for the Minaran empath was Gem. ~mIp'av On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:

Klingon word: jem Part of speech: verb Definition: sense, feel, perceive, detect Source: qepHom 2017 _______________________________________________

Describes both technological sensors and humanoid senses.

(qepHom 2017 p.13): {jem} ... means "sense, feel, perceive, detect" and can be used in the way you describe, but also for a machine that detects something (like a smoke detector).

Lieven used it in his (non-canon) subtitles for Discovery:

yInbogh Dep jemlaHbe' Hoqra' It's not registering as a lifeform. (DSC "Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum")

SEE ALSO: Hot touch, feel (v) largh smell, sense odors (v) mum taste, sense flavors (v) DuQ touch (emotionally) (v) nong be passionate (v) Hotlh scan (v)

HotlhwI' scanner (n) noch sensor (n) Hoqra' tricorder (n)

-- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons