Marc Okrand

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Marc Okrand
Okrand in 2019
Born (1948-07-03) July 3, 1948 (age 75)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationLinguist
Known forCreating Klingon and Atlantean
Academic background
Education
ThesisMutsun Grammar (1977)
Doctoral advisorMary Haas
Other advisorsWilliam F. Shipley

Marc Okrand (

linguist. His professional work is in Native American languages, and he is well known as the creator of the Klingon language in the Star Trek
science fiction franchise.

Career

As a linguist, Okrand worked with

Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., in 1978.[2]

After that, Okrand took a job at the

Arlington, Virginia, which planned to stage "an evening of Shakespeare in Klingon" in 2010.[3][4]

Star Trek

While coordinating closed captioning for the Oscars award show in 1982, Okrand met the producer for the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.[2] His first work was dubbing in Vulcan language dialogue for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, since the actors had already been filmed talking in English. He was then hired by Paramount Pictures to develop the Klingon language and coach the actors using it in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Okrand was later hired to create the Romulan and Vulcan dialogue for the 2009 Star Trek film, but these lines were cut from the final release.[5][6][7] He was also involved in Star Trek Into Darkness, but only during post-production.[5]

Okrand is the author of three books about Klingon –

’u’[a], debuting at The Hague in September 2010. He speaks Klingon, but notes that others have attained greater fluency.[8]

In 2018 he developed the language for the Kelpien race in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery (first appearing in the third Short Treks episode "The Brightest Star").[9][10]

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

In 2001, Okrand created the Atlantean language for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He was also used as an early facial model for the protagonist's character design.

Notes

  1. ^ The title ’u’ has three letters-- ’ u ’ -- , not one letter between single quotation marks. The apostrophe is a letter in the canonical transcription of Klingon orthography, denoting a glottal stop.

References

  1. ^ Garcia, Mary Elizabeth (January 13, 2017). "From Klingon to Dothraki: Understanding invented languages". UC Santa Cruz. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  2. ^
    Wall Street Journal Helping the Hearing Impaired And Voicing the Klingons
    , May 14, 2009
  3. ^ Washington Post: How the Washington Shakespeare Company came to offer Shakespeare in Klingon
  4. ^ "WSC press release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 1, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2010.
  5. ^ a b Litaer, Lieven (October 10, 2013). "Marc Okrand about Into Darkness". qepHom.de. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  6. ^ Serjeant, Jill (November 2, 2012). "Klingon goes boldly beyond 'Star Trek' into pop culture". Reuters. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  7. YouTube
  8. ^ Rogers, Tony (March 7, 2011). "ghom tlhIngan Hol lujatlhbogh ghotpu': Translation: People who speak Klingon meet". Arbiter Online: Boise State's Independent Student Media.
  9. ^ Bo Yeon Kim Message on Twitter of 7 January 2019.
  10. ^ Kelpien Language Consultant: Marc Okrand in the end credits of the episode "The Brightest Star"

External links

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