<![CDATA[Language]]>Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

facebook-212-935614 — 10 years ago(July 07, 2015 10:16 AM)

In a lot of movies with non-English languages, they either keep it in the language and use subs or do a transition like in Hunt for Red October where the audience then assumes when hearing English that they are really speaking Russian (or Klingon in this case). Ergo, I was a little confused by the Klingons continually mixing English and their language. I assume they were meant to have always been speaking their own language as it wouldn't make much sense to use a human language (except when conversing with Kirk).
Just struck me as weird.

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That's OK, because Scotty did also not understand a single word of what Chekov was saying.

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Not to mention Chekov's comment in Russian at 14:09 isn't subtitled.
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In the Hunt for Red October there was a "transition" scene where Sam Neill is talking in russian [and subtitles] and as the image slowly zooms to him and the book he's reading from it switched to english
But in III they speak in english like when watching the genesis data [no other klingons around] but when fighting they seem to speak klingon but then mega bald klingon who boards the enterprise and talks to Kruge in english but can't recognize the computer speaking a countdown in english?

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I think we can safely assume that when the Klingons are alone talking to other Klingons that they are speaking in Klingon.

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