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94-732: Dabo may refer to: Dabo ( Star Trek ) , a fictional game of chance Dabo, Indonesia , a port in Indonesia Dabo Airport , an airport in Dabo, Indonesia Dabo, Mali , a commune in Mali Dabo, Moselle , a commune of the Moselle département , France Dabo (mountain) (647 m), a mountain in the Vosges , France People [ edit ] Ibrahim Dabo (19th century), ruler of Kano and founder of

188-460: A holographic family for himself in 2373, his 'daughter' Belle was on her school's Parrises Squares team. This worried her 'parents', because Parrises Squares can be a dangerous game for someone her age. It later turned out their worries were justified, as she later 'died' of complications from a Parrises Squares injury. While in Starfleet Academy, Harry Kim played Parrises Squares, and was

282-445: A roulette -type wheel with an elevated pot in the middle. On each turn the wheel is spun, and the player has the choice to "evade", "confront", "acquire", or "retreat". Each choice has its purchase price, sell price, and its risk, all of which are interrelated. A Global Tongo Championship is held each year on Ferenginar . Jadzia Dax was fond of this game, playing long games into the night with Quark and his Ferengi staff. Poker

376-502: A warrior caste relying on slave labor and reminiscent of Ancient Sparta . With a greatly expanded budget for makeup and effects, the Klingons were completely redesigned for Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), acquiring ridged foreheads. In subsequent television series and in later films, the militaristic traits of the Klingons were bolstered by an increased sense of honor and a strict warrior code similar to those of bushido , and

470-539: A Klingon language course, which is as of June 2022 in Beta. While the language is widespread, mastery of the language is extremely uncommon. Okrand himself is not fluent, and the actors who speak the language in the Star Trek series are more concerned with its expression than the actual grammar. According to the 2006 edition of Guinness World Records , Klingon is the most spoken fictional language by number of speakers, Klingon

564-486: A Klingon warrior is coming (as shown in " Heart of Glory "). Yet Klingons have no burial rites, and dispose of corpses by the most expedient means available, considering them "empty shells". The Klingons' spiritual leader is Kahless , a messianic historical figure who established early codes of honor and was the first Klingon emperor. His fabled weapon, the Sword of Kahless, is depicted as a unique bat ' leth that serves as

658-621: A card such that it fell on the floor. As the henchman being taught reached down, Spock nerve-pinched him while Kirk and McCoy attacked the other guards, allowing the three to escape. Klingon Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original Star Trek ( TOS ) series , Klingons were swarthy humanoids characterized by prideful ruthlessness and brutality. Hailing from their homeworld Qo'noS (pronounced approximately as /kho-nosh/, but usually rendered as /kronos/ in English), Klingons practiced feudalism and authoritarianism , with

752-474: A central role in the episode " Profit and Lace ". In the non- canon Star Trek novel series Mission Gamma , one of Quark's dabo girls hires Hetik, an Orion male, as the first ever dabo boy in the game's history. Quark is initially dubious about the introduction of a dabo boy, but Hetik soon becomes popular among female patrons. Tongo is a card game played predominantly by the Ferengi . The game centers around

846-577: A consequence of the harsh-sounding language. Todd Bryant (Captain Klaa in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier ) similarly noted that if an actor was projectile-spitting on others as he spoke Klingon, he was doing a great job. When filming The Undiscovered Country , Christopher Plummer asked director Nicholas Meyer to adapt his character's look, feeling the heavy forehead appliances looked rather fake. Instead, Plummer's character, General Chang,

940-410: A feeling of depth from the appearance. Over time, Westmore and the other makeup artists designed different sizes of prosthetic headpieces which could be quickly applied and modified to save time; the amount of preparation to turn an actor into a Klingon decreased from around three hours to one. While important characters had custom headpieces, background actors used pre-made masks with minor touchup around

1034-602: A form of puberty, which, as Picard puts it in Star Trek: Insurrection "hardly does it justice" and includes sudden bursts of hair growth, extreme mood swings, violent tendencies, and the Klingon equivalent of acne (called 'Gorch' in Klingon). In comparison to The Original Series , Klingon culture is thoroughly examined in later series' episodes, part of a larger movement by Star Trek writers to deepen viewer understanding of

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1128-593: A game who face a series of challenges based on dice rolls and decisions made by an outside player. Wagers are placed on the survival of the in-game players. It was the plot of the Deep Space Nine episode " Move Along Home ". It would appear again as a major subplot in the Lower Decks episode "In the Cradle of Vexilon." Dabo ( / ˈ d ɑː b oʊ / DAH -boh ) is a Ferengi game of skill and chance. The game relies on

1222-458: A house victory in the long run, typically by enticing gamers to stay until they lose. The character therefore turns around the stereotype of the dumb blonde or bimbo ; while dabo girls may be intentionally giving that impression to customers, they take advantage of those who view a dabo girl as no more than that. In the DS9 episode " The Abandoned ", Jake Sisko 's dabo girlfriend Mardah (Jill Sayre)

1316-521: A joint collaboration between the KLI, Simon & Schuster, and Ultralingua launched the Klingon Language Suite for the iPhone concurrent with the release of the new movie. The popularity of the language meant that in 1996 it was considered the fastest-growing constructed language, ahead of other languages such as Tolkien's Elvish or Esperanto . In 2018, the language learning app Duolingo added

1410-408: A king and a deuce, except at night, when one wants a queen and a four. At this point, Kirk dealt a third jack, but to keep the ruse going, he ignored the disqualification rule he had just made up. He explained that, had a king been dealt instead of a jack, the player would get another card, except when it is dark, in which case he'd have to give it back. The top hand is a "royal fizzbin", consisting of

1504-495: A king, a two, a jack, a six, two queens and two aces during the day, and a queen, a four, an ace, an eight, two kings, and two jacks at night; however, the odds against getting one are extremely high. He asked Mr. Spock what the odds of such a thing were, to which Mr. Spock replied that he had never calculated them. Kirk called the last card a "kronk", which is two like cards and either a king, queen, jack, ace, two, four, six, or eight (time of day applicable), and then purposely dealt

1598-770: A natural resistance to " the Phage ," which plagues the Vidiians of the Delta Quadrant. Like Cardassians , they avoid cold temperatures. Klingons also have a heightened sense of smell as suggested in "Birthright, Part II" in The Next Generation , when Worf and a Klingon boy go hunting and can track an animal by scent. Klingon children are fierce and aggressive by nature; from as soon as they can walk, they are instructed into honing their hunting and combat skills, strengthening their physical prowess and agility. Like humans, they go through

1692-407: A new spine, as was demonstrated with Worf when his spine was surgically removed and replaced with a transplanted, genetically cloned new one. Their rapid metabolism allows injured Klingons to heal quickly. All of this makes Klingons extremely hardy and difficult to kill, as necessitated by their aggressive nature, and resistant to physical trauma, environmental exposure, and illness. Klingons alone have

1786-439: A racquetball-like arena. In this game, players compete to be the first to capture and shoot a flying disc. Points are scored each time a player fails to capture the disc and is hit by it, with the game continuing until one player reaches ten points. Tom Paris and Harry Kim are seen walking out of the holodeck with hockey skates slung over their shoulders. Tom warns Harry, "Watch out for those Nausicaans—they're tough. According to

1880-537: A secret Klingon research facility and discovers Amar Singh, a descendant of Khan Noonien Singh , has merged Klingon, Augment, and Gorn DNA to create a ferocious, mindless monstrosity the player must destroy. Singh is arrested and imprisoned at Facility 4028. Klingons possess a robust and enduring biology as well as large and muscular statures. Klingons have been seen on multiple occasions possessing physical strength equal to or superior to that of Jem'Hadar and Hirogen , two other races possessing immense strength, and

1974-433: A solid visor, rendering them blind, and fight with a large staff. One end of the staff contains a proximity sensor, alerting each contender to their opponent's location with an audio signal. The other end of the staff is rounded and padded and used for direct blows. The staff itself can be used for sweeping attacks. The opponents dress in armor and helmets to protect them from injury. Ceremonial Japanese chants are used to greet

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2068-499: A sport he enjoyed playing during his time on Earth. In the episode "Catwalk," he is shown watching a water polo match on a portable viewing device as he tries to fall asleep. On several occasions, he is also seen bouncing a water polo ball off the wall in his quarters. In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "The Forge", the bridge crew (except T'Pol) is briefly seen playing basketball. Doctor Phlox has amazing shot accuracy. In

2162-655: A view of the afterlife similar to that of the Ancient Scandinavians . Klingons are recurring antagonists in the 1960s television series Star Trek , and have appeared in all subsequent series, along with ten of the Star Trek feature films . Initially intended to be antagonists for the crew of the USS Enterprise , the Klingons became a close ally of humanity in Star Trek: The Next Generation . In

2256-470: Is a card game played on many TNG episodes. The crew of the Enterprise (NCC 1701-D) plays dealer's choice , usually five-card stud , which is one of the more rare variants of poker by 20th and 21st century standards. Draws have also been picked as well as an unknown variation on 5 card stud, as well as 7 card stud . William Riker , a highly skilled player, hosts regular games for the senior officers; in

2350-468: Is a six-team league on the distant Cestus III. A Vulcan Starfleet crew formed a team under the leadership of their captain and challenged a team led by Captain Sisko in 2375. Parrises Squares is a vigorous athletic game , mentioned in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager . It is often implied that the game involves a high risk of serious personal injury; nevertheless, much to

2444-438: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dabo (Star Trek) The fictional Star Trek universe includes a variety of sports, games, and other pastimes. Some of these fictional recreational activities are closely associated with one race , although they may have gained adherents from other backgrounds. Others thrive on the interaction of different species. Some of

2538-558: Is one of many language interfaces in the Google search engine, and a Klingon character was included in the Misplaced Pages logo before its May 2010 update, when it was replaced by a Geʿez character. As the Klingons are portrayed as a warrior culture, Klingon starships are usually depicted as warships , heavily armed with a variety of particle beam weaponry and antimatter warheads . Many Klingon ships also make use of cloaking technology to hide

2632-527: Is real. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Julian Bashir , during his childhood, briefly considered becoming a professional tennis player ( DS9 , episode 173, "Melora"). It is revealed that he was good enough to play at professional level; however, he chose medicine as his profession. Captain Jonathan Archer from Star Trek: Enterprise had a passion for water polo,

2726-399: Is restored by living relatives. Those who do not die in battle may not enter Sto-Vo-Kor; relatives undertake quests to guarantee their deceased comrades' entry into paradise. Despite believing in an afterlife, the Klingons perform a form of last rite. This consists of spreading the eyes open, humming in anticipation of the final breath and roaring skywards when the warrior dies, warning the dead

2820-408: The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Suspicions , Guinan comes to Dr. Beverly Crusher complaining of tennis elbow . Later in the episode, the doctor gifts Guinan with a new, state-of-the-art tennis racket, which she is sure will alleviate her elbow problems. As it turns out, Guinan was lying about playing tennis, but nonetheless the game is clearly known by the both of them, and the racket

2914-552: The Academy champion three times. Parrises Squares is mainly mentioned as a game played by humans, but other species participate. M'Kota R'Cho was the first Klingon to play the game, when he participated in the controversial Championship Finals of 2342. Springball is a sport played by Bajorans and is somewhat similar to the human sport of handball . A game is shown during the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " For

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3008-620: The Bible have been translated into it. A dictionary, a book of sayings , and a cultural guide to the language have been published. According to the Guinness World Records , Klingon is the world's most popular fictional language as measured by number of speakers. The Klingons were created by screenwriter Gene L. Coon , and first appeared in the Star Trek episode " Errand of Mercy " (1967). They were named after Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan, who served with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in

3102-613: The Enterprise crew, in part because the makeup necessary to make another alien race, the Romulans , was too time-consuming and costly. For the first two seasons, no Klingon ships were seen despite being frequently mentioned. This was because of budget constraints; designer Matt Jefferies did not have the money to create a Klingon ship until the third season. When the episodes were remastered beginning in 2006 , Klingon ships were digitally inserted into shots earlier than their original appearances. For Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979),

3196-435: The Enterprise formulated a cure for the virus, but the physical alterations remained in the populace and were inherited by offspring. Phlox indicated that "some day" the physical alterations could be reversed. The head scientist finally mentioned he would go into cranial reconstructive surgery, another nod to "restoration" of the ridges for some Klingons. In the non-canon Star Trek: The Role Playing Game ( FASA , 1982),

3290-583: The Los Angeles Police Department . In the original television series ( TOS ), Klingons were typically portrayed with bronze skin and facial hair suggestive of Asian people and possessed physical abilities similar to humans (in fact, Coon's only physical description of them in his "Errand of Mercy" script is "oriental" and "hard-faced"). The swarthy look of Klingon males was created with the application of shoe polish and long, thin moustaches; budget constraints limited creativity. The overall look of

3384-647: The Omega Leonis star system) is depicted as green when viewed from space. It includes a lone, huge land mass with a vast ocean , a severely tilted axis that causes wild seasonal changes, a turbulent atmosphere and extremes of both warm and frigid weather. The planet is also home to the Capital City of the Klingon Empire, which features prominently in several episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine . In Star Trek Into Darkness , one province of Qo'noS

3478-654: The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Minefield", Captain Archer mentions to Lieutenant Reed that England has made the World Cup Final (this being in 2152). O'Brien and Bashir are frequently seen playing darts at Quark's bar in Deep Space Nine . Harry Kim and Tom Paris are never seen playing, but in the episode "Warlord", Kim adds to an existing holodeck program three holographic characters he says he practices with—a championship team of three beautiful women. Paris remarks that now he knows why Kim has been playing better. In

3572-518: The United Federation of Planets playing the role of the United States . As a result, the Klingons were generally portrayed as inferior to the crew of the Enterprise . While occasionally capable of honor, this depiction treated the Klingons as close to wild animals. Overall, they were shown without redeeming qualities—brutish, scheming, and murderous. Klingons became the primary antagonists of

3666-747: The 1930s. Meyer also felt it was appropriate for Shakespearean actors such as Christopher Plummer and David Warner to speak the lines. The breakdown of the Klingons' empire because of a Chernobyl -like incident results in a new age for the Federation and Klingons, leading to the time of The Next Generation and later series where the two governments are trade partners and occasional allies. Starfleet members are shown to be highly bigoted against Klingons, who in turn feel that their way of life will be obliterated by peace. The Klingons were given new uniforms designed by Dodie Shepard, in part because there were not enough of Fletcher's The Motion Picture costumes to meet

3760-460: The 1990s series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , humans and Klingons join with the Romulans to fight the Dominion . Among the elements created for the revised Klingons was a complete Klingon language , developed by Marc Okrand from gibberish suggested by actor James Doohan . Spoken Klingon has entered popular culture, even to the extent that some of the works of William Shakespeare and parts of

3854-525: The Cause ." Racquetball is a game played inside a room where the players use racquets to hit a small ball. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir enjoy the sport. Bashir was captain of the Starfleet Medical Academy racquetball team in 2368, when he led the team to victory in the sector championships. Tennis is clearly known and played in the Star Trek universe. In

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3948-598: The Dabo dynasty Baciro Dabó (1958–2009), Guinea-Bissauan politician Dabo Swinney (born 1969), American football coach Dabo (rapper) (born 1975), Japanese hip-hop artist Ousmane Dabo (born 1977), French footballer Mouhamadou Dabo (born 1986), French footballer Fankaty Dabo (born 1995), English footballer See also [ edit ] Darbo (disambiguation) Dabotap , pagoda located in Bulguk Temple in Gyeongju, South Korea Topics referred to by

4042-461: The Federation. The final Star Trek film to feature the entire cast from the original television series, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), served to bridge the original series' Klingons at war with the Federation to the time of The Next Generation and presents a subtly different treatment of the race. At the time of the film's development, the Soviet Union was collapsing, and with

4136-518: The Federation. Fusions of both types were considered inferior to pure strain "Imperial Klingons" and were segregated. In the non-canon video game Star Trek Online , Klingons under the command of Ambassador B'vat once again attempt to fuse the DNA of other races with their own. In a chapter called "The Ultimate Klingon", the player character travels to the planet H'atoria in the Korvat System to infiltrate

4230-828: The Himalayan kukri , Chinese axes and fighting crescents to create a two-handed, curved weapon that has since been widely used in the franchise. The culture of the Klingons began to resemble revised western stereotypes of civilizations such as the Zulu , the Spartans , the Vikings , and various Native American nations —as a proud, warlike and principled race. Whereas the TOS Klingons served as an allegory to contemporary totalitarian regimes, The Next Generation Klingons held principles more in line with Bushidō ; actor Michael Dorn stated that without

4324-631: The Jupiter Station Diagnostic Program which was used to maintain the Emergency Medical Hologram on various Starfleet vessels, the Utopia Planitia Shipyards, several Sherlock Holmes programs created by Data for his exploration of humanity, and various Shakespeare programs enjoyed by Jean-Luc Picard . In Voyager , an entire holographic village and its population were created. The " Fair Haven " program

4418-562: The Klingon equivalent of the Holy Grail . In the TNG episode " Rightful Heir ", Kahless appears in the flesh to Worf, who had doubted his Klingon faith. This Kahless is revealed to be a clone, created in an attempt to bring Klingons together, and who is chosen to lead the Klingon people as a figurehead. The Klingons have their own language that was developed for the feature films, often described as "guttural". For The Motion Picture , James Doohan ,

4512-562: The Klingon language's grammar, syntax, and vocabulary. While Okrand expected the book to only sell as a novelty item, eleven years after publication it had sold 250,000 copies. Dedicated Klingon enthusiasts, some but not all of whom were Star Trek fans, created the Klingon Language Institute , which published multiple magazines in the language. While Paramount initially tried to stop the Institute from using its copyrighted language,

4606-420: The Klingon vernacular. From time to time, Okrand has amended the "official" list of Klingon vocabulary due in part to requests from the Institute and other groups. Other Klingon groups run blood drives, bowling teams, and a golf championship. The Klingon language's prevalence is not limited to books; a three-disc video game, Star Trek: Klingon , requires players to learn the language to advance. In May 2009,

4700-410: The Klingons' appearance was radically changed. To give the aliens a more sophisticated and threatening demeanor, the Klingons were depicted with ridged foreheads, snaggled and prominent teeth, and a defined language and alphabet. Lee Cole, a production designer, used red gels and primitive shapes in the design of Klingon consoles and ship interiors, which took on a dark and moody atmosphere. The alphabet

4794-468: The actor who portrayed Montgomery Scott , devised the initial Klingon-language dialogue heard in the film. For The Search for Spock , Marc Okrand , who created the Vulcan dialogue used in the previous film, developed an actual working Klingon language based on Doohan's original made-up words. Okrand was presented with a difficult task of contriving a language that sounded alien, while still simple enough for

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4888-431: The actors to pronounce. While most constructed languages follow basic tenets of natural languages — for example, all languages have an "ah" sound — Okrand deliberately broke them. He chose the rarest form of sentence construction, the object-verb-subject form: the translation of the phrase "I boarded the Enterprise ", would be constructed as "The Enterprise boarded I." Okrand reasoned the language would be indicative of

4982-623: The advent of glasnost , the old allegory of Klingons as Russians was becoming obsolete. The Klingons were redesigned to evoke the Nazis, with the red, white and black Klingon flag deliberately similar to that of the Nazi Party . The Klingons in the film liberally quote Shakespeare, a trait stemming from director Nicholas Meyer 's comparison of the Empire's appropriation of Shakespeare to the Nazis' similar attempt in

5076-439: The air of feudal Japanese design; Fletcher thought it was an important part of the Klingon authoritarian attitude. New Klingon weaponry was designed, including an energy weapon and a special knife known as a d'k tahg . The release of a new television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation , prompted a further revision in the depiction of Klingon culture, though Gene Roddenberry had wanted to avoid re-appearances of races from

5170-439: The alien races of the franchise. The Klingons adhere to a strict code of honor, similar to feudal Mongolian or Japanese customs, although some, such as Gowron, appear to struggle to live up to their ideals. Their society is based on war and combat; ritual suicide is often preferred over living life as a crippled warrior, and may allow a warrior to die with honor. To be captured rather than killed in battle brings dishonor to not only

5264-402: The aliens, played by white actors, suggested orientalism , at a time when memories of Japanese actions during World War II were still fresh. The production crew never came to an agreement on the name "Klingon"; Coon was adamant about keeping the name, and it persisted because no one else offered up a better name. The Klingons took on the role of the Soviet Union with the fictional government

5358-462: The alliance between the Federation and the Klingons, while John Eaves ' designs for Enterprise incorporated more rugged and primitive construction to make the vessels appear consistent with the earlier time period. The Klingon homeworld has been given several names; according to Marc Okrand, the planet would have been referred to in several ways, just as Earth is referred to variously as "the world" or "Terra". Early Star Trek literature referred to

5452-482: The captive but his descendants. Death is depicted as a time for celebration, not grief. Klingons are depicted as a spiritual people. According to their legends, Klingons slew their own gods. The equivalents to heaven and hell are called Sto-Vo-Kor and Gre'Thor, respectively; in Sto-Vo-Kor, battle and feasting can be eternally won and shared, while those sent to Gre'Thor are condemned to eternal torture unless their honor

5546-500: The central enemy in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) led to minor alterations. For the third generation of Klingons, the heavy, cragged head ridges of The Motion Picture were redesigned and made less pronounced. While Fletcher was happy with the original film uniforms, more had to be created as the old costumes had been lost, destroyed, or loaned out and altered irreparably. New costumes were fabricated, retaining

5640-488: The change was given in a two-part storyline on Star Trek: Enterprise , in the episodes " Affliction " and " Divergence " that aired in February 2005. Attempting to replicate experiments by humans to create augmented soldiers, Klingon scientists used genetic material from human test subjects on their own people, which resulted in a viral pandemic which caused Klingons to develop human-like physical characteristics. Dr. Phlox of

5734-449: The company eventually relented. The Institute has since published Klingon translations of Hamlet , Much Ado About Nothing , Tao Te Ching , Gilgamesh , and has translations of some books from the Bible on its website. The Bible proved to be difficult to translate, as Christian concepts like atonement—and words like God (until the recent addition of Qun meaning "god")—are not found in

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5828-497: The concern of parents, the game was quite popular with teenagers during the 24th century. The game involves the use of a piece of equipment called an ion mallet and a ramp, and players often wear special padded uniforms. While healing a deep cut on William Riker 's face, Dr. Beverly Crusher lectured him "to stop playing Parrises Squares as if you're 21", further advising him that "one day, you'll break your neck, and I won't be able to heal that as easily." When The Doctor created

5922-591: The culture - the Klingons' language focuses on actions and verbs, like Mongolian. Adjectives do not strictly exist; there is no word for "greedy", but there is a verb, qur , which means "to be greedy". The language does not contain the verb "to be", which meant Okrand had to create a workaround when director Nicholas Meyer wanted his Klingons to quote Shakespeare and the famous line " to be, or not to be " in The Undiscovered Country . Initially, Okrand came up with "to live or not live", but Plummer did not like

6016-459: The demands of the film. Dorn described playing a Klingon as simple, joking that after hours sitting in a makeup chair, actors were highly motivated to get the dialogue right the first time. Repeat Klingon Robert O'Reilly told all neophyte Klingons that the most important part of speaking was to say the lines with belief and "go all the way". When O'Reilly and Dorn's character had a confrontation, makeup artists wiped spittle off each between takes,

6110-587: The different Klingons were different racial breeds were complicated by the fact that the characters of Kang , Koloth , and Kor appeared with smooth features in The Original Series yet had a ridged appearance in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and that Worf acknowledged the difference in appearances when the crew of Deep Space 9 returned to the 23rd century in the episode " Trials and Tribble-ations " but offered no explanation, saying merely, "We do not discuss it with outsiders." A canonical explanation for

6204-446: The episode " We'll Always Have Paris ", Picard is in a match against an unnamed crew member. Picard scores a touch, and then the match is cut short because of a strange time loop (which serves as the plot for the main story). Second, he matches against Guinan in the episode " I, Borg ". Guinan feigns injury and Picard lowers his guard to help, at which time she strikes for an easy point. She does this to warn Picard against feeling sorry for

6298-467: The eyes and mouth. The Next Generation effects artist Dan Curry used his martial arts experience to create a flowing fighting style for the race. When the episode " Reunion " called for a special Klingon blade, Curry drew on Far East influences to develop a weapon known as the bat ' leth . Curry, a collector of weapons, was annoyed by fictional weaponry that was designed to "look cool" but could not be handled practically. Curry combined elements of

6392-530: The games below were central to the plot of a single episode, while others were recurring plot elements spanning multiple television series of the Star Trek franchise. The holodeck is a facility designed to simulate reality by replicating a wide range of environments. It is commonly found on starships and starbases in the Star Trek series set in the 24th century, i.e. Star Trek: The Next Generation , Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager . While

6486-457: The half-human B'Elanna Torres proves more than a match for a Vulcan . Their anatomy is redundant and supernumerary; every organ has a backup, including an extra set of kidneys, an eight-chambered heart, a third lung, a secondary brain stem, as well as an extensive and hardy skeletal structure. This redundancy is evident even at the cellular level; for example, the Klingons have backup synaptic networks in their nervous systems, allowing them to grow

6580-581: The history presented in Star Trek , the Earth game baseball suffered from a decline in popularity that culminated in the final World Series , which was played in 2042 before a crowd of 300 and won by legendary player Buck Bokai. By the 24th century, the now-obscure game was appreciated by a relatively small number of aficionados including Captain Sisko (who kept a ball on the desk in his office aboard Deep Space Nine), Jake Sisko , Kasidy Yates and astrophysicist Dr. Paul Stubbs. The only organized baseball mentioned

6674-504: The holodeck is often used for research and training, it is frequently depicted as a source of entertainment. Some programs depicted in the various Star Trek shows include a Klingon calisthenics program, used heavily by Lieutenant Commander Worf ; a park-like setting where Riker first encounters Data in " Encounter at Farpoint "; various 'social' programs, such as a mud-bath and a pool hall; and Jean-Luc Picard 's Dixon Hill holonovels. Other settings have sometimes been shown, such as

6768-459: The injured Borg that the crew has saved (which serves as the plot for the main story). In a flashback scene in Star Trek: Picard , Admiral Picard is shown reading part of The Three Musketeers to a young Romulan boy, Elnor. He then teaches Elnor the basics of fencing, as depicted in the book. In the present time of the show, Elnor has grown to become an excellent swordsman. Hikaru Sulu in

6862-499: The memorable Original Series episode " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", Captain Kirk and some of his crew are forced to participate as gladiators in combat against other humanoids, for the entertainment of unseen masters who wager Quatloos among themselves on the outcome in the arena. Anbo-Jitsu (or anbo-jyutsu) is a fictitious Japanese sport shown in Star Trek: The Next Generation . In it, two armored opponents facing each other wear

6956-635: The old series. Set a century later than the original series, the USS Enterprise -D featured a Klingon crewmember, Worf . Makeup artist Michael Westmore needed a consistent reference to base the Klingon look on, as each individual Klingon was to have distinct head ridges. He found what he was looking for in a book of dinosaurs: observing dinosaur vertebrae laid out flat, Westmore cut the designs in half and modified them to suit each Klingon. Westmore designed his Klingons' beards to be Elizabethan , combining prehistoric and aristocratic elements to give audiences

7050-644: The online role-playing game Star Trek Online , players can play a version of dabo with in-game currency. The wheel has three concentric rings that rotate independently; the players win based on how the symbols align after each spin. Dabo girls are attractive women of various species who run the games in Ferengi establishments. Leeta ( Chase Masterson ), who was a dabo girl in Quark's bar, maintained that dabo girls not only had to look appealing enough to lure customers to play, but also be able to quickly calculate odds and ensure

7144-436: The opponent, initiate combat and yield if necessary. It is called "the ultimate evolution in the martial arts" in the context of the show. William Riker and his father settled a long-standing grudge with this game in the episode " The Icarus Factor ". Tsunkatse is a form of martial arts, similar to kickboxing and some Japanese sports. Each opponent wears a round device on both the front and back of their harness which sends

7238-468: The original series is known to be a fencer, as demonstrated in the episode " The Naked Time ". In the 2009 movie, Sulu mentions he has combat training, which he later tells Kirk is "fencing." He carries a retractable sword during the space jump to the mining probe over Vulcan, and proves to be a formidable swordsman against his Romulan opponents. Chula is a game played by the Wadi race that places real people into

7332-503: The planet as Klinzhai, but The Next Generation episode "Heart of Glory" called the planet Kling. The film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country established the name as Kronos; Okrand later devised the Klingon transliteration "Qo'noS". In Star Trek Into Darkness , the planet's name is both spelled and spoken by Starfleet personnel as Kronos. According to the non-canon "Klingon for the Galactic Traveler", Qo'noS (said to be in

7426-400: The player on the dealer's right, who gets seven. Simultaneously, the first and second card are turned up, except on Tuesdays, when the first card alone is turned up. Kirk dealt the henchman two like cards (jacks), which are a "half-fizzbin". When the henchman said he needs another jack, Kirk warned that a third jack is a "shralk" and is grounds for disqualification. With a half-fizzbin, one wants

7520-404: The previous depictions, but this was retconned in season 2. The lack of hair was said to have been ceremonial during the time of war with the Federation, harking back to the tale of Kahless having cut off a lock of hair to forge the first bat'leth. They also have black and purple skin color variations. According to the official Star Trek web site, the Klingons' varying appearance was "probably

7614-428: The revision in Klingon culture, his character, Worf, would not have been a Starfleet officer. With the first Klingon-centric story in The Next Generation , the first-season episode " Heart of Glory ", the Klingons once again became an important part of the Star Trek universe, and by the advent of the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Klingons had become heroes rather than villains, though often at cross purposes to

7708-496: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dabo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dabo&oldid=1252791172 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

7802-560: The series finale " All Good Things... ", Jean-Luc Picard joins in for the first time. Fizzbin is a fictional card game created by James T. Kirk in the Original Series episode " A Piece of the Action ". While being held hostage on Sigma Iota II with Spock and Leonard McCoy , he spontaneously invented a confusing card game to distract the henchmen guarding them. The rules were intentionally complex. Each player gets six cards, except for

7896-666: The series, and that's a penetration deep into enemy space. I started to think of how the Klingons lived. Obviously for the Romulans we had Romans , and we've had different cultures modeled on those of ancient Earth, but I tried to think of what the Klingon society would be like. The Japanese came to mind, so basically that's what it was, with the Sacred Emperor , the Warlord and so on." While no Klingon characters were seen in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , their appearance as

7990-405: The single most popular topic of conversation among Star Trek fans". While the reason for the discrepancy between The Original Series Klingons and their feature film and later television series counterparts was a lack of budget, fans took it upon themselves to contrive an acceptable canon reason for the sudden change. Among the fan theories, were that TOS Klingons were: Simple theories that

8084-415: The smooth-headed Klingons seen in The Original Series were called "fusions", in particular, "human fusions", with "Romulan fusions" also existing. They were a deliberate blending of Klingon genes with those of other races in an effort to gain an understanding of, and thus advantage over, the other races. Human fusions were chosen for service on the Federation border due to the high number of humans present in

8178-557: The sound of the line. Okrand went back and revised the phrase to " taH pagh, taHbe' ", roughly meaning "whether to continue, or not to continue [existence]". The Klingon language has a small vocabulary compared to natural languages, containing around 2,000 words after it had been created in the 1990s. After its initial creation, Okrand has frequently created new words, so that the total number of words has grown up to approximately 3,000. Okrand persuaded Pocket Books to publish The Klingon Dictionary in 1985; in it, Okrand elaborated on

8272-499: The spinning of a "dabo wheel" similar to a roulette wheel. During various betting hands (similar to poker) each player either "buys" or "sells" or "converts" their gold-pressed latinum (money) in preparation for the next spin of the dabo wheel. About ten players can sit around the dabo wheel. When something good happens, everyone around the table shouts "Dabo!" The game is most often seen played in Quark's bar on Deep Space Nine . In

8366-769: The vessel from view. The first Klingon ship design used in The Original Series , the D7-class battlecruiser, was designed by Matt Jefferies to evoke a predator's shape akin to that of a manta ray , providing a threatening and instantly recognizable form for viewers. The configuration of Jefferies' design featured a bulbous forward hull connected by a long boom to a wing-like main hull with the engine nacelles mounted on each wingtip. Later Klingon starships by other designers kept to this same overall configuration, although updated to reflect their respective time periods: Rick Sternbach 's designs for The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine drew on elements of Starfleet ships features to reflect

8460-642: The wearer a shock when it is touched by an opponent's counterpart, worn on the feet and hands. Each match is designated by a color code, red meaning to the death, blue meaning until one opponent is defeated. The sport is practiced by various species in the Delta Quadrant . In the Voyager episode of the same name, Seven of Nine was kidnapped and forced to compete in the sport. Captain Jean-Luc Picard engages in fencing matches on at least two occasions. First, in

8554-529: Was designed as angular, with sharp edges alluding to the Klingons' militaristic focus. Costume designer Robert Fletcher created new uniforms for the Klingons, reminiscent of feudal Japanese armor. Certain elements of Klingon culture, resembling Japanese culture with honor at the forefront, were actually first explored with the script for the planned two-part "Kitumba" episode for the unproduced 1978 Star Trek: Phase II series. Writer John Meredyth Lucas said, "I wanted something that we had never seen before on

8648-479: Was made bald with subdued ridges and an eyepatch bolted to his skull. Plummer felt that the unique appearance helped "humanize" the character. In contrast to white actors portraying the warriors, more recent Klingon roles have been predominantly played by black actors. For Star Trek: Discovery , the Klingon appearance was once again modified with more extensive facial and teeth prosthetics and elongated craniums. The new Klingons were initially bald, in contrast with

8742-503: Was originally designed for occasional enjoyment by the crew of Voyager , but the characters become sentient by the time of the follow-up episode " Spirit Folk ", and the captain orders that the holodecks be modified so that the program could remain running continuously. Additionally, in Voyager , Seven of Nine is often frustrated by Captain Janeway's superior skill at Velocity, a game played in

8836-450: Was quoted as saying "The first rule of Dabo is watch the wheel, not the girl", and she makes a good impression on Benjamin Sisko during a private dinner he hosted for her and his son. While the character Leeta made the role of dabo girl significant in Star Trek fandom, other dabo girls who appeared or were referred to in multiple episodes include Mardah and M'Pella ( Cathy DeBuono ). The sweet and hard working Aluura (Symba Smith), had

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