qay' yIHmey (Trouble with Tribbles)

[jIHaD]

I have attempted to translate the conversation between Scotty, Chekov, and Korax from TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles."

The original is as follows:
Korax: "That sagging old rust bucket is designed like a garbage scow! Half the quadrant knows it; that's why they're learning to speak Klingonese!"
Chekov: "Mr. Scott!!"
Scotty: "Laddie... don't you think you should... rephrase that?"
Korax: "Yehhhr right, ah shooold. I didn't mean to say the Enterprise should be hauling garbage, I meant to say that it should be hauled away AS garbage!!!!"
(FYI: Easy to miss: Korax makes fun of Scotty's accent.)

My Klingon translation attempt:
qoraQ: veQDuj rur Dujvetlh ngo'bogh raghpu'bogh! Dochvam Sov jogh bID; meqvammo' tlhIngan Hol lughojlI'!
cheQov: SIqot Soghla'
SIqot: mu'tlheghvam mu' DachoHnIS 'e' DaHar'a'?
qoraQ: bIlugh, DachoHnIS. veQ HIjnIS 'entepray' 'e' vIjatlh 'e' vIHechbe', veQ 'oH 'entepray''e' 'e' vIjatlh 'e' vIHech!

Good? Bad? Fair?



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[Qunchuy]

Good. Not perfect -- no translation of a nontrivial passage can be -- but good.

The Sci-Fi Channel special presentation of Star Trek almost ten years ago showed how some of the scenes appeared in the Klingon Empire. This was one of the dubbed lines:

'entepray' wIparHa'.  wIparHa'bej.  veQDuj rur raghtaHbogh
tu'HomI'raHvetlh Qop.  'e' luSov bID joghnganpu', vaj tlhIngan Hol
lughojlI'.

We like the Enterprise. We absolutely do. That worn-out decaying dunsel is like a garbage scow. Half the inhabitants of the quadrant know that, thus they are in the process of learning Klingon.



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[tesseraktik]

majQa'. bIHaDba'pu'. {Very good. You've obviously studied.}

The Sci-Fi Channel special presentation of Star Trek almost ten years ago showed how some of the scenes appeared in the Klingon Empire. This was one of the dubbed lines:

'entepray' wIparHa'.  wIparHa'bej.  veQDuj rur raghtaHbogh
tu'HomI'raHvetlh Qop.  'e' luSov bID joghnganpu', vaj tlhIngan Hol
lughojlI'.

We like the Enterprise. We absolutely do. That worn-out decaying dunsel is like a garbage scow. Half the inhabitants of the quadrant know that, thus they are in the process of learning Klingon.

Very interesting! Do you have any idea who did that translation?

[Qunchuy]

Very interesting! Do you have any idea who did that translation?

I believe credit goes to the Klingon Language Institute. It was a group effort.