# What star does the Klingon Homeworld orbit? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817 "2004-08-27T17:27:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/41 "2004-08-30T23:14:47Z")
How does it say that? Klingon’s a language, yes, but as far as I know, it uses the English alphabet and the Klingon runes have never been given real meaning and are there pretty much just to look alien and menacing. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/42 "2004-08-30T23:59:25Z")
So, her warp nacells gots lots of plasma, eh? wink wink, nudge nudge ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/43 "2004-08-31T00:05:04Z")
Girl ships don’t have nacelles. Duh. Your user name is so apt. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/44 "2004-08-31T00:37:56Z")
All the ships are shes. That’s how Kirk beat the spores. He was bangin’ on the hull, don’t ya know… ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/45 "2004-08-31T05:05:26Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > How does it say that? Klingon’s a language, yes, but as far as I know, it uses the English alphabet and the Klingon runes have never been given real meaning and are there pretty much just to look alien and menacing. I went with what was in the encyclopedia, even though there’s no official alphabet for the Klingon language. Unfortunately, the guy I had do two of the lines was a ham fisted idiot, so I’ll be having the work redone some other way. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/46 "2004-08-31T05:14:11Z")
_ **ghaH ghajtaH ghobe’ quv!** _ ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/47 "2004-08-31T14:57:22Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Okay, note to self…don’t try to flirt with fellow Trekkers or with gamers…they have one-track mind…got it. > Oh, and **Dante** , what exactly does your tattoo say? And how could you marry a woman who does not appreciate the wonder that is Roddenberry’s creation?? 😃 Did [**Ivylad**](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=273759) know you were in here flirting with Dopers when he was prostrate under your car, fighting off mosquitoes and fixing… stuff? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/48 "2004-08-31T16:36:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Jeez, what would it take to grab your attention? Jeri Ryan in her post-Borg unitard?? Or would you still be arguing the benefits of matter/antimatter vs. forced quantum singularities as power sources? Nah, 7 of 36-26-36 doesn’t do that much for me. Now, make it B’Ellana Torres, up to her elbows in some console she’s fixing, maybe sweating a bit… Oh, I’m sorry, where was I? One of my office mates (female, by the way) has a t-shirt which says “I’m a physicist. Flirt harder.” ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/49 "2004-08-31T16:37:06Z")
Yes, he did. He doesn’t like Star Trek, although I think I’ve got him hooked on DS9. He doesn’t groan as much as during the other franchises, and has been known to let out a chuckle here and there. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/50 "2004-09-01T01:06:25Z")
If DS9 is his gateway drug, I don’t expect him to turn to the other series. After all, why would you eat bologna if you had filet mignon? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-star-does-the-klingon-homeworld-orbit/261817/51 "2004-09-01T02:53:51Z")
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