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From: friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ST3 (spoiler, of course) - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 12:38:00 EDT
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uiucdcs!friedman    Jun 13 11:38:00 1984

> About the Klingons speaking English: obviously the average Klingon didn't
> speak English, ("The only thing speaking is the computer." "Let me hear it!")
> so the high ranking Klingons, being suspicious like a good Klingon should,
> spoke English when they didn't want their crew to know what they were
> saying...

I simply assumed that they got tired (or thought the audience would have
gotten tired) of using subtitles, and that the Klingons continued to
speak Klingonaase among themselves.  It does seem clear that Kruge, at
least, spoke Fed Standard (i.e., English for the purpose of the movie),
since he expected to (and did) understand the Enterprise computer.