Klingon word: tlhIlwI' Part of speech: noun Definition: miner _______________________________________________ AFAIK never used in a sentence. Miners we've seen on Trek incluce: an unnamed alien deuterium mining colony (ENT "Marauders"); the three (di)lithium miners on Rigel XII (TOS "Mudd's Women"); the pergium miners on Janus VI (TOS "The Devil in the Dark"); the salenite miners on Pentarus II (TNG "Final Mission"). SEE: tlhIl mine (v) tlhIl mineral (n) tlhIlHal mine (n) cha'puj tlhIlHal vISuch vIneH I want to visit the dilithium mines. CK tlhIlHal yIngev! Sell the mine! KGT tlhIlHal yIngIv! Patrol the mine! KGT rura' pente' tlhIlHalmey Rura Penthe Mines (GN) MKE SEE ALSO: ghaw excavate, dig (a hole, trench, ditch, etc.) (v) molHa' dig up (v) teq remove (v) voD drill, bore (v) tlhan dig [into] (v) Daqrab well (n) 'och tunnel (n) Qargh fissure DIS cave (n) TREK NOTES: "The prisoners on Rura Penthe ... mine dilithium, required for warp propulsion systems." (TKW 190) Prisoners sentenced to Rura Penthe have a life expectancy of 6 months to one year. (ENT "Judgment") The remote Galactic Mining Station on Delta-Vega is an automated lithium cracking station, "rich in crystal and minerals." (TOS "Where No Man Has Gone Before") In 2267 Klingon agent Kras supported the Maab's revolt against the High Tier Akaar (leader of the "ten tribes of Capella") in hopes the new leader would award the Klingon Empire the rights to mine the rare mineral topaline on Capella IV. ("Friday's Child" [TOS]) In 2267 the Halkans refused the Federation (and the mirror Empire) permission to mine dilithium crystals on their planet. (TOS "Mirror, Mirror") Harcourt Fenton Mudd was arrested and imprisoned on a Rigel mining planet. (TOS "I, Mudd") The crew of the SS Beagle sent a landing party down to look for iridium ore to repair their ship in 2261. (TOS "Bread and Circuses") The Woden -- a large slow-moving, old-style unmanned ore freighter converted to automation -- was destroyed by M-5 in 2268. (TOS "The Ultimate Computer") In 2367 Picard shuttled to Pentarus II to settle a dispute among the salenite miners there. (TNG "Final Mission") "If you require no more assistance, I will resume our mission to Coridan. Let's hope the Federation's dilithium miners will be as surprised to see us as the Defiant's crew was." (Vorta Gelnon to First Jem'Hadar Kudak'etan, DS9 "One Little Ship") -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons