Appearances in Other Media
In 2010, a Chicago Theatre company presented a version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol in Klingon language and a Klingon setting. On September 25, 2010, the Washington Shakespeare Company performed selections from Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing in the Klingon language in Arlington, Virginia. The performance was proposed by Okrand in his capacity as chairman of the group's board. This performance was reprised on February 27, 2011 featuring Stephen Fry as the Klingon Osric and was filmed by the BBC as part of a 5-part documentary on language entitled Fry's Planet Word.
In "Star Mitzvah", a Season 10 episode of the sitcom Frasier, Frasier Crane gives a speech in Klingon at the ceremony for his son's Bar Mitzvah—having been fooled by a Jewish colleague he had let down into thinking it was Hebrew.
In "Witch Hunt", an episode of the television crime drama NCIS, Timothy McGee, who understands Klingon, communicates with a suspect dressed as a Klingon at a Halloween party, until his superior, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, becomes impatient enough to force the suspect to speak in English.
A cryptic message left by a serial killer in Klingon is a plot point in the novel Watch Me by A. J. Holt.
In The Big Bang Theory there are frequent references to Klingon. In the third season episode "The Wheaton Recurrence", Sheldon actually quotes the Klingon proverb referred to by Khan in Star Trek II: revenge being a dish best served cold. In the fifth season finale The Countdown Reflection Sheldon tries to wed Howard and Bernadette in the language.
Google Search and Minecraft each have a Klingon language setting.
In the 2003 film, Daddy Day Care there is a scene where a child speaks in Klingon.
The January 12, 2003 strip of Something Positive showed a gamer speaking in Klingon.
In episode 11 of the twelfth season of The Simpsons, (entitled Worst Episode Ever), Comic Book Guy is tossed out of Moe's bar. Lying in the gutter, he asks himself, "Is there a word in Klingon for 'loneliness'?" Flipping through his handy pocket dictionary, he looks skyward and exclaims, "Garr'dock!". Likewise, he recites a Klingon oath of love in the episode My Big Fat Geek Wedding when about to marry Edna Krabappel at a Star Trek convention.
In the 2011 film Paul, the main characters played by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost use Klingon as a form of secret communication.
In the title track to Kate Bush's 50 Words for Snow, the Klingon phrase peDtaH 'ej chIS qo' appears as number 42. She thanks Marc Okrand in the liner notes for providing the translation (for which the literal translation back into English is "It's snowing and the world is white.").
Chuck Bartowski and Bryce Larkin communicate in Klingon in the television series Chuck.
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