Are those Klingon symbols the name of the ship? Can anyone translate it?
And in which episode was the class-name "Vor'cha" mentioned?
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it says 'do not spit here'
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well, no TNG klingon fonts were. Okuda has stated they make no sense, and that most of the characters are rotated or reversed randomly.
However, the TOS Klingon fonts has a well circulated fandom alphabet that has been adapted into Okrands Klingon alphabet. for example, the symbols of Jefferies' D-7 model really say 'D-7'
but that has nothing to do with these.
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I presume to think the symbols in an actual Klingon fleet would form the word (s) for the governing body of the fleet (ex. "Klingon Empire") or the name of the ship (ex. "I.K.S. Ya'Vang").
On the Bird of Preys, there is writing on the spherical command hull as well.
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I remember someone, in either TNG or DS9 (I think it was O'Brien, and I think it was in DS9) said "It would take a Vor'cha class attack cruiser to do any real damage."
Or something along those lines. But I don't know if it was before or after the aforementioned instance in "Way of the Warrior".
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That quote is from an episode in the Dominion War, IIRC. Near as I can recall, "Vor'cha" was first mentioned in WotW, but accepted by fandom for years beforehand.
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That was Dukat in the DS9 epidose Return to Grace. He was telling Kira that the complex where both were going was destroyed by a Klingon Bird of Prey and not a Vor'cha Class.
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: That quote is from an episode in the Dominion War, IIRC. Near as I can recall, "Vor'cha" was first mentioned in WotW, but accepted by fandom for years beforehand.
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I think it was mentioned in one of the TNG Writer's Tech Manuals (5th Season maybe?)that came out right around the time the episode aired on TV.
quote:I presume to think the symbols in an actual Klingon fleet would form the word (s) for the governing body of the fleet (ex. "Klingon Empire") or the name of the ship (ex. "I.K.S. Ya'Vang").
Well, the most recent Federation ships don't have anything that say Starfleet or UFP on them, and the fact that the letters do seem to be different on other ships suggested that it doesn't merely say "Klingon Defense Force" or something of the like. Only time we ever saw UFP on a Fed ship was in the TOS Movie era, on the hulls of ships like the Constitution, Miranda, and Excelsior. If anything, it'd probably be the name of the ship, or at an extreme, the name of the house it supported... but given that everyone's man Okuda said it's jibberish, well...
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: That quote is from an episode in the Dominion War, IIRC. Near as I can recall, "Vor'cha" was first mentioned in WotW, but accepted by fandom for years beforehand.
There were models, Playmate toy, and Micromachines of Vor'Cha around years before the DW. The name might not have been canon onscreen until "WotW", but it was canon in every other way.
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I've found a site with Klingon letters and tried to translate it: u?ghwl
quote: most of the characters are rotated or reversed randomly.
Then it could be an alphanumerical registration code, comparable with Starfleet's NCC-....
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