In honor of the latest Star Trek release, MSN Video has rolled out a Klingon version of its Star Trek video page. Klingon, of course, is the tongue spoken by the race of the same name in the fictional Star Trek universe. For those of you who aren’t Trekkies, Klingons are the warrior race and usually are portrayed as the enemy in the Star Trek series and movies.
One notably hilarious (or sad, depending on your point of view) video shows a “Captain_Krankor,” or taHjaj wo,’ seen posing in random photos, including one where he is holding a dolphin. The Klingon imperial anthem serves as the soundtrack to a slideshow of Captain Krankor spottings here on Earth, many of them on a corporate campus that could easily be Microsoft’s.
Does anyone know, do they speak Klingon in Redmond?
My wife always says I sound Klingon – probably something to do with my German accent.
If they DON’T speak Klingon in Redmond…
Don’t bother searching anywhere else.
Does that guy wear the Klingon forehead FULL TIME?!
Microsoft=Borg, not Klingon.
If Microsoft=Borg, then who are the Klingons/Romulans and various other races…?
And does Linus Torvalds = resistance leader?
ahhh… i’m darth nialis…
Eric, the real question here is why are you writing about it.. is it that you have absolutely nothing else to discuss or is there really value here that nobody sees?
I agree. There are people all over creating interesting startups and TC is writing about artificial Klingons.
It’s your blog so you can write whatever you want but if this is all you have I will probably stop reading.
Obviously that Klingon on a dolphin, doin’ flips and shit.
He’s on a boat. A muthaf***in’ boat.
maybe it’s not a dolphin
Hey, I’m the one who gave that dolphin (identified as “norghoy” at the end of the video) to the Captain!
That was no “corporate campus”. That was a hotel in the Philadelphia area. However, I know at least two people at Microsoft who are indeed fluent in Klingon.