Marc Okrand
Marc Okrand (born July 3, 1948 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American linguist and mainly known as the inventor of the Klingon language .
Services
Okrand received his doctorate in 1977 from the University of California, Berkeley on the Indian language Mutsun of the Ohlone . From 1978 until his retirement in 2013, he worked for the National Captioning Institute, Inc. , a company that creates closed captioning for the deaf .
In the early 1980s he was hired by Paramount Pictures first to create a Vulcan dialogue and shortly afterwards for the development of the Klingon language and the coaching of actors in various Star Trek films, so that the self-contained strangeness and peculiarity of the population the "Klingons" can be converted into an aesthetically convincing script and film. Okrand defined the "canon" of the language. He became famous for his Klingon dictionary and other related products.
He is in close contact with the Klingon Language Institute and enjoys creating new Klingon vocabulary for it on a regular basis.
Okrand originally worked on the languages of American Indians , and he also found what he was looking for in Klingon. For example, the unusual sound tlh ( IPA : [t͡ɬ] ) in Klingon is part of the Nahuatl phonetic inventory . The Klingon name ( tlhIngan ) usually begins with this sound.
For the Disney film Atlantis - The Secret of the Lost City , he developed the language of Atlantis.
In 2018 he developed the language of the Kelpians for the third episode of the short treks "The Brightest Star" .
Works
Books
- The Klingon Dictionary . Pocket Books, 1992, ISBN 0-671-74559-X
- The Klingon Way . Pocket Books, 1996, ISBN 0-671-53755-5
- Klingon for the galactic traveler . Pocket Books, 1997, ISBN 0-671-00995-8
- paq'batlh: The Klingon Epic (with Floris Schönfeld), uitgeverij, 2011, ISBN 978-90-817091-2-5
Audio language course
- Conversational Klingon (with Barry Levine), Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 978-0671797393
- Power Klingon (with Barry Levine), Simon & Schuster, 1993, ISBN 978-0671879754
Movies
Marc Okrand translated dialogues and taught the actors for the following films. In the first Star Trek in 1979, Klingon was spoken, but these were the words that the actor James Doohan had invented.
| German title | Original English title | Year of origin | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Star Trek II: The wrath of Khan | 1982 | Vulcan dialogues |
| Star Trek III: In Search of Mr. Spock | Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | 1984 | Klingon |
| Star Trek V: On the Edge of the Universe | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | 1989 | Klingon |
| Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Land | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | 1991 | Klingon |
| Atlantis - The Secret of the Lost City | Atlantis: The Lost Empire | 2001 | Development of the Atlantic language |
| Star Trek | Star Trek | 2009 | Romulan ; Klingon scenes were cut |
| Star Trek Into Darkness | Star Trek Into Darkness | 2013 | Klingon, no credits mentioned |
Trivia
- A dictionary used in Star Trek VI is called "Okrand's Unabridged Klingon Dictionary" , alluding to Marc Okrand.
Individual evidence
- ^ Staff page of the NCI ( Memento of February 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bo Yeon Kim message on Twitter January 7, 2019.
- ↑ Kelpien Language Consultant: Marc Okrand is in the credits of the episode "The Brightest Star"
- ^ Christies.com: Uhura's Klingon reference books
Web links
- Marc Okrand in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
- Marc Okrand in theInternet Movie Database(English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Okrand, Marc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist, inventor of the Klingon language |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |