If you like your holidays to include a certain quota of nerdism, then your next holiday needs to be at Jenolan Caves in NSW. They’ve just announced the world’s first self-guided cave tour available in the Klingon language.
As any true Star Trek fan would know, this isn’t the first encounter Jenolan Caves has had with the Star Trek universe – in the Next Generation episode ‘Relics’, there was a “Sydney-class” starship called the USS Jenolan. But now the tourist attraction has stepped it up a notch, offering the self-guided tour for their popular Nettle Cave available in Klingon (plus 10 other Earth-based languages).
The audio guide was recorded by Klingon scholars Michael Roney Jr (aka naHQun) and Tracy Canfield back in July and is now available for any who dare to go where no Klingon has gone before.
Fred
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 12:56 PMThere are Klingon scholars? There is a FEMALE Klingon scholar?!
opm881
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 2:05 PMwasnt one of the guys that works there talking about this like a month ago on triple j in the morning?
naHQun
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 3:07 PMWhy yes, there are Klingon scholars.
(Don’t mind me, I just love seeing myself in the news…)
Joeyjoejoe
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 5:15 PMSo please do tell us naHQun, how does one become a Klingon scholar? and if one wanted to pursue such a dream where would they go to learn? (or do you just rustle up a bunch of Unix programmers / sys admins and convert them or something? ^^ judging on the article pic, I’m guessing 2 in 4 ppl in the pic above could explain what a Vax terminal is :P )
Simon Reidy
Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 8:32 PMThis could get dangerous if someone pulls out a bat’leth…
Qunchuy
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 3:59 AMJoeyjoejoe, to become a Klingon scholar one need only study the Klingon language. That doesn’t mean looking at it and laughing. It means learning it, using it, and coming to understand its unique character.
One of the best ways to learn and use Klingon is to join the tlhIngan-Hol email discussion forum hosted by the Klingon Language Institute. See http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol for details.
It’s true that the vast majority of Klingonists are technologically adept, and computer programmers are unusually well represented. But there are also commercial pilots, amateur cobblers, postal workers, teachers, physicians, authors, and many others.
Andy UDU
Saturday, October 23, 2010 at 11:24 AMIm not a trekker but this makes me happy somehow!