At the same time, some others have developed languages in detail for their own sake, such as J. R. R. Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin and Star Trek's Klingon language which exist as functioning, usable languages.

* The Klingon language in Star Trek

Perhaps the most fully developed fictional alien language is the Klingon language of the Star Trek universe-a fully developed constructed language.

* The fictional Klingon language has three classes: capable of speaking, body part and other.

* tlhIngan Hol, the Klingon language

The Klingon language ( tlhIngan Hol, pronounced ) is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe.

Klingon was subsequently developed by Okrand into a full-fledged language.

Klingon is sometimes referred to as Klingonese ( most notably in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", where it was actually pronounced by a Klingon character as " Klingonee " ) but, among the Klingon-speaking community, this is often understood to refer to another Klingon language called Klingonaase that was introduced in John M. Ford's 1988 Star Trek novel The Final Reflection, and appears in other Star Trek novels by Ford.

A shorthand version of Klingonaase, and later with the same term adopted by tlhIngan Hol itself, is called " battle language ", or " Clipped Klingon ".

Though mentioned in the original Star Trek series episode " The Trouble With Tribbles ", the Klingon language first appeared on-screen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 ).

With the advent of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 )— in which one of the main characters, Worf, was a Klingon — and successors, the language and various cultural aspects for the fictional species were expanded.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " A Matter of Honor ", several members of a Klingon ship's crew speak a language that is not translated for the benefit of the viewer ( even Commander Riker, enjoying the benefits of a universal translator, is unable to understand ) until one Klingon orders the others to " speak their ' humans ' language ".

The pilot episode of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, " Broken Bow " ( 2001 ) describes the Klingon language as having " eighty polyguttural dialects constructed on an adaptive syntax ".

Hobbyists around the world have studied the Klingon language.

The Klingon Language Institute exists to promote the language.

Additionally, while the validity is disputed by legal scholars, the copyright of the Klingon language is owned by Paramount as well.

Even though Marc Okrand has studied the indigenous languages of the Americas, the Klingon language is not based upon any of those languages.

According to Star Trek canon, the Klingon Kahless created the first bat ' leth around the Earth-equivalent of 625 A. D. Klingon mythology holds that he formed the blade by dropping a length of his hair into some lava from inside a volcano known as the Kri ' stak Volcano, then cooling, shaping, and hardening it in a lake known as " the lake of Lursor ".

The word " bat ' leth " translates as " Sword of Honour " in the Klingon language.

Some of the bat ' leth's notable usages were in the episode " Reunion ", where Worf taught his son, Alexander how to use a bat ' leth and used one to kill Duras, another Klingon who had killed Worf's mate, K ' Ehleyr.

Media reports documenting instances of replica bat ' leths being used in alleged crimes have referred to the weapon as a " double-pointed Klingon crescent-shaped sword ", a " Klingon-type sword ", a " Star Trek Klingon-type sword " or as a " double-pointed scimitar ".

Koloth is dismissive, until she shows him her skills with a Klingon bat ' leth.

Klingon warriors beam aboard and attack the crew at Ops with bat ' leths.

The use of untranslated Klingon words interspersed with conversation translated into English was commonplace in later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, when Klingons became a more important part of the series ' overall story-arcs.

Okrand himself has stated that a design principle of the Klingon language was dissimilarity to existing natural languages in general, and English in particular.

Alec rarely responded to his father in Klingon, although when he did his pronunciation was " excellent ".

The House of Mogh was a family of high social and political rank which was for a time represented on the Klingon High Council.

He was also a member of the Klingon delegation at Camp Khitomer.

Worf was born in 2340 on the Klingon homeworld as the son of Mogh.

Although Worf was raised by humans, he considered himself a Klingon at heart and studied the ways of his people.

He graduated in 2361 and was commissioned with the rank of Ensign, becoming the first Klingon officer in Starfleet.

In 2359, he became briefly involved with K ' Ehleyr who was the daughter of a Klingon father and a human mother.

When they and the Enterprise crew discovered that it was in fact Duras ' father that betrayed the Empire, Worf, realizing that the powerful House of Duras could not be publicly shamed without throwing the Empire into civil war, accepted a ritual discommendation from the Klingon High Council.

He was at a monastery on the Klingon colony of Boreth when he was ordered to go to Deep Space 9 to advise Captain Sisko when a Klingon fleet massed at the station.

She was familiar with Klingon customs due to the experience of the Dax symbiont's previous host.

She was the first non-Klingon that Worf could " physically " be with in the traditional Klingon way.

In the sixth-season episode " Barge of the Dead ," Dawson finally got the chance to explore B ' Elanna's Klingon heritage thanks to an episode originally conceived by Ronald D. Moore for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

( The script of " The Enterprise Incident " originally called for a Romulan ship to appear, but the original model was not available: rather than go to the expense of building a new one, the Klingon D7 model was substituted.

* Klingon ships have been added to the opening and ending battle scenes where originally, only explosions and weapon fire were shown.

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He then revealed his true identity, informing Worf that Duras accused their father of betraying the Klingon Empire by helping the Romulans attack Khitomer.

Shortly before the end of the war (" When It Rains ..."), Gowron comes to Deep Space Nine to honor Martok by inducting him into the Order of Kahless, and then announces that he would be taking control of the Klingon forces from Martok because it was time for him to " take a more active role in the war ".

Kirk then beats the Klingon tormenting them to death with his bare hands.

While the sequence read well on paper, there was not enough time or money to do the effects " the right way "— for example, shooting the actors on a bluescreen and then inserting them into the Klingon corridors.

Klingon starships then appear on an intercept course.

* Chekov evacuates his ship and then crashes it into the three Klingon cruisers, destroying all four ships in the process and ( inadvertently ) all of the evacuees as well.

He then united Qo ' noS, the Klingon homeworld, by killing a tyrant named Molor with the weapon, which became known as the " Sword of Kahless ".

* If monkeys are purple, then fish speak Klingon.

The alien then gestures to four more beings: the dangerous Earth human warlord Colonel Green ( who led a genocidal war on Earth during the 21st century ), the Klingon Kahless ( who spawned the Klingon Empire ), a feral-looking woman named Zora ( who conducted brutal experiments on the primitive tribes of Tiburon ), and the Earth human barbarian Genghis Khan.

As he is then required to by tradition, Worf starts the Klingon vow of marriage, by shouting " tlhIngan jIH " ( Klingon for " I am a Klingon "), but K ' Ehleyr refuses to take the vow and storms out.

Korris attempts to persuade Worf to come with him and conquer the galaxy as a true Klingon, and then accuses Worf of being weak when he refuses.

They then enter a computer-room filled with bodies — among the alien-bodies are a Klingon, a Vulcan, and a Cardassian.

Kira then meets Sisko's Mirror Universe counterpart, who receives better treatment than the other Terrans because he runs missions for the brutal Klingon / Cardassian Alliance.

Spock would then declare that a Klingon, Romulan or Tholian vessel had appeared on the Enterprise's sensors, and announce its position.