The Smithsonian commissioned linguist Marc Okrand, who invented the Klingon language for Star Trek, to record a one-hour Klingon audio tour for the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The tour is available on the museum’s Go app Flight and features the harsh, guttural tones of the language. Before Okrand, Klingon characters spoke in English.
“Live long and prosper,” Spock would say, and those involved with the Star Trek franchise certainly did. On that long list is Marc Okrand, the linguist who invented the fictional language for Star Trek’s Klingon-speaking characters. In September 2016, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned Okrand to record a one-hour Klingon audio tour for hiking enthusiasts visiting the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The Klingon audio tour is available on the Go app Flight of the museum, the contents of which are otherwise produced in English.
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Okrand’s tour features the harsh, guttural tones Star Trek fans have obsessed with since the made-up language officially debuted in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Before Okrand made Klingon into a full-fledged language, Klingon characters that appeared in the films and original TV series spoke in English.
The Klingon language is sometimes referred to as Klingonese or Klingonee.
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