Star Trek: Klingon

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(written from a production point of view)

Star Trek: Klingon is a computer game, first released by Simon & Schuster Interactive in May 1996, directed by Jonathan Frakes and featuring Robert O'Reilly as Gowron.

Summary[]

From the back cover: Master the Klingon Way of the Warrior – or suffer deadly consequences – as you undergo Starfleet's holographic training in the language, culture and warface of the Federation's most lethal adversary: the Klingons.; Star Trek Klingon – The Ultimate Interactive Adventure, the third in Simon & Schuster Interactive's Star Trek series, is a frighteningly realistic interactive episode that tests your mastery of Klingon phrases, customs, body landuage, and even the proper cooking of gagh. Survive the crucial Language Lab and you may test your new-found knowledge of tlhingan Hol in the double-CD Klingon Immersion Studies.; In this holodeck adventure, you are Pok, a young Klingon warrior caught up in the dangerous circles of Klingon clan politics. On the day of your Rite of Ascension, your father is murdered in his own home – and it is up to you, with the help of Gowron (Leader of the Klingon High Council), to find the murderer and close the circle of vengeance. Along the way you will encounter strange aliens, treacherous friends, and even serve aboard the mighty Bird-of-Prey, the Tagana.; THINK, ACT, and SPEAK like a Klingon, and you will become a warrior. THINK like a Terran and you'll be dead Ha'DIbaH.

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Star Trek: Klingon comes with three CDs (the main feature being called "Immersion Studies"). The third CD contains the "Klingon Language Lab", which is a compilation of all the grammatical rules and words that were invented for Star Trek and a condensed version of Power Klingon, an audio course on the Klingon language that can be played in a standard CD player.

The game puts the player in the role of Pok, a Klingon about to pass his Rite of Ascension. Pok is located at a party where all his friends and relatives have gathered. The game features an interactive mode, where Pok talks to the other characters and learns about the Klingon culture. But, during the party, there is an attempt on Gowron's life, and Pok and his friends embark on a blood oath that will take them all the way into Romulan space. As is with the Klingon culture, the answers to the conversations which guide the player through the game are not deducted logically, but the player must decide which answers would truly depict the Klingon nature.

Background information[]

Star Trek: Klingon was adapted as a novelization, Star Trek: Klingon, by the publisher Pocket Books, and as an audio drama by Simon and Schuster Audioworks.
The "Klingon warrior's anthem" from this game was used in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Soldiers of the Empire".
This is one of two Star Trek games to be rated Mature; the other, also centering around Klingons, was Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard.

Credits[]

Cast[]

Robert O'Reilly as Gowron
Michael Dorn as voice of Klingon language speaker
Marc Okrand as Klingon voiceover
J.G. Hertzler as Ler'at
Martha Hackett as K'Tar
Rick Worthy
Scott MacDonald as Qua'lon
Barry Lynch as Vok
John Cothran, Jr.
Annette Helde as Aleria
Catherine MacNeal as T'Var
Paul Sandman
John Kenton Shull
Michael G. Hagerty as Meska
Joan Scheckel (voice)
Joe Hulser
Joel McKinnon Miller as Pakled Captain
Debbie David as alien bar security (uncredited)
Tracee Lee Cocco as alien bar waitress (uncredited)
Ken Gruz as Pok (Pok's hands POV, uncredited)

Crew[]

Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Written by: Hilary Bader
Additional writing material: Keith Blanchard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Dean Wesley Smith
Associate producers: Elizabeth Braswell and Terri Potts
Produced by: Dan Dugan
Executive producer: Keith Halper
Music composed by: Gregory Smith
Cinematography: Joe Chess and Shahan Minassian
Stunt coordinator/ 2nd Unit Director: Joe Stone
Casting director: Ron Surma
Film editors: Brad Ley Earle and Jim McQueen
Art Director: Michael L. Mayer
Set Decorator: Laura Richarz
Costume designer: Pamela Berggren
Costumers: Pamela Berggren and Kimberley Shull
Music editor: Stephen M. Rowe
Special effects make-up artist: Michael Westmore
Make-up artists: Michael Westmore and Susan Maust
Hair stylists: Norma Lee and David Quashnick
Assistant hair stylist: Caryl Codon
First assistant director: Jerry Fleck
Second assistant directors: Arlene Fukai, Dana Jackson, and Tom Phillips
Property master: John Nesterowicz
Assistant property master: Robert De La Garza
Set designer: Louise Dorton
Construction coordinator: Al Smutko
Sound supervisors: Bill Wistrom and Wilson Dyer
Sound effects editors: Sean Callery, Jeff Gersh, and Masanobu Tomita
Sound editor: Guy Tsujimoto
Sound recordist: Chris Elam
Sound re-recording mixers: Chris Haire, Doug Davey, and Richard L. Morrison
Sound mixer: Jack Tossman
Sound re-recording engineer: Bill Henderson
Dialog editors: Jivan Tahmizian and Ashley Harvey
ADR mixer: Alfred T. Ferrante
ADR recordist: Daryl Lathrop
Boom operator: Cole Coonce
Special effects: Bill Brownfield, Amanda Karnes, and Wil Thoms
Visual effects: Ronald B. Moore
Chief lighting technician: Ian Christenberry
Grips: Bill Blackman and Chet Sawiki
Key grips: Bill Slemmons and Dennis Mikulich
Dolly grip: George Santo Pietro
Video engineer: Dale Dimmick
Best boy: Don Lehman
First assistant camera: Maricella Ramirez
Production coordinator: Mike Mistovich
Production assistants: Anthony Contreras, Andrzej Kozlowski, and Jennifer Shull
Script supervisor: Cosmo Genovese
Craft service: Vartan Chakarian
Creative consultants: Ronald D. Moore and Marc Okrand
Klingon language created by: Marc Okrand