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Henley and actor Jay Hardee glided gracefully through the "Much Ado" material, followed by Okrand and Rachel Wyman barking out the exchange in Klingon.

Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon Celia Wren 2010

The introductions paved the way for an amusing autobiographical talk by Washington Shakespeare board president Marc Okrand, who just happens to be the linguist recruited by Paramount Studios in the 1980s to invent the Klingon tongue.

Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon Celia Wren 2010

Rounding out the proceedings was a question-and-answer session fielded by Henley, Okrand and Takei.

Theater Review: Washington Shakespeare Company's evening of the Bard in Klingon Celia Wren 2010

If this had been a book about Klingons, we could have used the indispensable Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand.

Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

Okrand recently spoke about the linguistic structure of his creation at Mary Washington College.

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Klingon was invented by Marc Okrand, for use in some of the Star Trek movies.

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An article promoting the lecture series in which he was a featured speaker notes, When Marc Okrand created the Klingon language for a movie back in 1984, he never thought anyone else would use it.

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Okrand recently spoke about the linguistic structure of his creation at Mary Washington College.

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The article later points out, "Okrand's creation of a whole language — vocabulary, grammar, syntax, etc. — has been likened to the languages J.R.R. Tolkien invented for his" Lord of the Rings "books," although Okrand points out that Tolkien's language is limited to books, whereas Klingon is "more of a living language."

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Klingon was invented by Marc Okrand, for use in some of the Star Trek movies.

11.03 M-mv 2003