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I still want to meet whoever thought "Kling" was a good idea, and shake their hand.
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I take it you mean the reference in 'Heart of Glory' to the "Traitors of Kling"?
Kling was never given a specific meaning ... it could be like the "Heroes of Bastogne" or something similar. Kling could be the site of a famous battle in ancient Klingon history ...
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I always liked to think Kling wasn't a place, but a badly-translated Klingon term for Klingons in general. A Klingon saying "the traitors of Kling" would be like a human saying "the traitors of Man".
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I think Kling is a good name for the Klingons' home planet. At the time the episode was filmed, that's what the term was supposed to refer to. And, for what it's worth, the Starfleet Headquarters star chart from "Conspiracy" (TNG) shows it as Kling as well.
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Its Qo'noS.. not Quo'noS. The Klingon Q is rarely (if ever) followed by a u
Thats how Elmer Fudd would say it
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You could stick Kronos on there too, even if it is just a more readable version of Qo'noS.
"I think Kling is a good name for the Klingons' home planet."
Indeed. Please Mim, if you have any children, let your wife pick the names.
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Well, really. If you have places called Andor and Tellar, then why does Kling sound out of place? Klingons----Kling. Saying Kling sounds silly is like saying 'Klingons' or 'Klingonese' sound silly. It's all from the same base word. Qo'nos was pulled out of somebody's ass. Kling actually makes sense considering that the people that come from there are called Klingons.
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And the winner is Snay!
Lets review what we've learned today, kids:
Klingon is a cool name for the Klingons. It doesnt sound silly at all.
Kling is a stupid name for a planet
Kronos is the name of their homeworld, which has no similarity to the name of their people
Human is a cool name for Humans
Huma would be a stupid name for our planet
Earth is the name of our homeworld, even though it is a completely dissimilar to our name for our planet. Not to say that we did this without precedent.. the Klingons have also gotten away with it.
But the Mim kid thinks that wouldnt make any sense?
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So, just to be fair, should we declare that "Kronosian" is a valid alternative to "Klingon", and just no-one says it?
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Not to extend this into the realm of scary people who are scary, but isn't Klingon a closest-fit English version of the actual name in Klingon?
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