This article rage tilted me. I'm really not digging having to read subtitles of a gibberish language for 5 minute intervals
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“For me, at the core of ‘Star Trek’ is the idea that Starfleet’s mission is to understand the other, or what is perceived as the other. To use a word that may seem ironic, our approach was to humanize the Klingons, meaning we know a lot about them,” he said. “In a moment when we are living in a world where ideologies are so polarized and polarizing, what I did not want to do was just make them the bad guys. I was not interested in doing that version of the show.”
In addition, Kurtzman said that they didn’t want to pull what he referred to as a “Red October” — a reference to, in his words, “that great brilliant moment in ‘The Hunt for Red October’ where you’re watching the Russians speaking in the submarine and the camera moves in on Ramius, and he switches from Russian to English, and now you’re watching the Russians speak for the rest of the movie in English.”
As well as the device worked in that film, the team didn’t want to mimic it. “It would’ve felt very inauthentic, and I think people would’ve been upset by the idea that we were having the Klingons speaking in English,” Kurtzman said.
Did it feel inauthentic in Hunt for Red October? It did not! Did it feel inauthentic in Star Trek III-VI? It did not! Did it feel inauthentic in TNG or DS9? It did not!
Also, inauthentic? THESE ARE FICTIONAL ALIENS FFS! THEY DO NOT EXIST!
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So, that meant the Klingons were going to speak Klingon, in lengthy scenes which aimed to develop these characters and this culture beyond typical bad guy tropes. “We know that Klingon is a language that has evolved for over 50 years. People are married in Klingon. They speak Klingon to each other. Which means we can’t get it wrong,” he said.
“We all looked at each other and embraced arms and said, ‘Fine. We’re going to do this. We’re going to write long scenes in Klingon, and we’re going to ask the audience to read the subtitles. And we’re going to need someone like Robyn to translate.'”
YOU ARE NOT TRANSLATING ANYTHING, THE LANGUAGE DOES NOT EXIST.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/sta...on-1201880882/