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minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 hours agoThat line always annoyed the fuck out of me. They couldn’t make up an equally vitally important Klingon author and then compare them? Nope, just a throwaway joke.
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 hours agoI interpreted it as cultural appropriation and how primitive Klingon diplomacy was that they’d make the claim directly to the people they’d appropriated from.
minus-squarePronell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoThat’s really nice, I like that interpretation a lot! Sort of “This man wrote so well he might as well have been a Klingon.”
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoWe also know that the singular great writer in the Federation’s time is Beverly’s grandmother.
That line always annoyed the fuck out of me. They couldn’t make up an equally vitally important Klingon author and then compare them?
Nope, just a throwaway joke.
I interpreted it as cultural appropriation and how primitive Klingon diplomacy was that they’d make the claim directly to the people they’d appropriated from.
That’s really nice, I like that interpretation a lot! Sort of “This man wrote so well he might as well have been a Klingon.”
We also know that the singular great writer in the Federation’s time is Beverly’s grandmother.