Um you guys
did you know this can translate back and forth from Klingon?
I mean, I’m sure it’s a bastardization, but frick, that’s a useful thing, isn’t it?
Okay, Klingon scholars. I need your aid.
Do Klingons have door-guardians? Like gargoyles, sort of thing? Watchers that guard the household when the members are sleeping? Creepy statues? If so, what’s the name for such a thing?
Klingon is a huge and intimidating language!
Well, my life just got 4000% better.
Though not native to the Empire, Klingons have developed a way to
make coffee ({qa'vIn}) particularly strong, both in flavor and in
its effect as a stimulant, and it is a very popular beverage. As a
rule, coffee is consumed plain–that is, black–but some Klingons
prefer to mix other ingredients in with the coffee. If some kind
of {HIq} (“liquor”) is added to the coffee, the drink is called
{ra'taj}. It is said that the drink was originally nicknamed {ra'wI’
taj} (“commander’s knife,” suggestive of its potency), and that the
name was shortened over time. This often repeated story cannot be
confirmed. In any event, {ra'taj} became one of the few Klingon
foods to become popular outside of the Empire, though in an altered
form. Instead of containing liquor, as does the genuine Klingon
{ra'taj}, the “export” version (which came to be pronounced *raktaj*
in Federation Standard) consists of strong Klingon coffee plus a
nutlike flavoring. Eventually, a new fashion developed–adding cream
to the *raktaj*–and with this innovation came yet another name,
*raktajino*, modeled after the name of another popular coffee drink,
cappuccino. *Raktajino* is now served hot or iced, with or without
extra cream, and with or without the rind of some fruit to add even
more flavor. Though it is sometimes called “Klingon coffee,” it is
quite different from both plain {qa'vIn} and the alcoholic {ra'taj}.
As quoted on this page, from Klingon for the Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand.
Because today I was all, wait, raktajino, isn’t racht that worms thing that Bashir and Melora ate, oh my god is raktajino made of worms, and Star Trek was like relax, guy, already on it, we have retconned this shit so hard, we got this.
Best show, best fandom, best thing of all the things.
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