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Author	Lawrence M. Schoen
Date	June 1994
Publisher	Klingon Language Institute, Flourtown, PA, ISSN 1061-2327
Source	HolQeD 3:2, page 9
Summary	Description of SkyBox Trading Card 99 featuring the 1993 series of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Title	Everyday Klingon
Type	article

Everyday Klingon

Several members sent in photocopies of a SkyBox trading card containing a rather lengthy bit of Klingon text, both in the romanized form we've come to know so well, and in the {pIqaD}. As is so often the case the {pIqaD} used makes no sense, nor is it even internally consistent. However, the text itself bears some study. Marc Okrand was kind enough to confirm that he did indeed provide SkyBox with this translation, making it perhaps the longest piece of Klingon discourse on record, and canon to boot. No doubt this will quickly become a highly sought trading card, one of the few instances of well formed Klingon not produced for television or film. Okrand's text follows, the translation (and its significance) is left as an exercise to the reader. The card itself is entitled {QU'}, all in uppercase, making interpretation a fierce quest indeed.

    {loS... qIb HeHDaq, 'u' SepmeyDaq
    Sovbe'lu'bogh lenglu'meH He
    ghoSlu'bogh retlhDaq 'oHtaH.
    HaDlu'meH, QuSlu'meH, SuDlu'meH
    lojmIt Da logh Hop Hut tengchaH.
    vaj loghDaq lenglaHtaH Humanpu'.
    veH Qav 'oH logh'e'.}