Drama nerds and sci-fi fans alike were quick to jump on the moment. The argument goes like this: since no one at the table (and specifically no one from the Enterprise) pushes back against Gorkon’s claim, or even so much as blinks, then the assertion must have been true. And, well, truth is truth to the end of reckoning, right? So reckon they did.
An entire history was soon created. Klingon Wil’yam Shex’pir was the actual author of Earth history’s most famous plays, and our notion of Shakespeare as a human was only because of centuries of deception, misinformation, and Federation propaganda. Everyone’s favorite Elizabethan bard was merely a “conveniently remote medieval Terran” with no skills of his own.
The Klingon Language Institute is responsible for most of this and, in fact, took things even further with an actual Klingon translation of Hamlet – a book that was not only published but included as part of the famous Folger Shakespeare Library. Khamlet, as it’s known, reimagines Shakespeare’s existentialist revenge fantasy as a play “about the dangers of a weakened and ineffectual society.”
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