Quite Possibly The Geekiest Thing I Have Ever Posted

 

Ok, so the above picture requires a little bit of explanation.  For those of you who have never seen Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, there's a scene where the crew of the Enterprise are hosting a diplomatic dinner with a number of Klingons (check out the youtube clip here).  As the dinner conversation progresses, the topic of Shakespeare comes up (as almost always happens when talking with Klingon's, am I right?).  The Klingon Chancellor Gorkin offers a toast in which he references a quote from Hamlet, Spock recognizes the quote, and then Gorkin says,  "You've not experienced Shakespeare until you're read him in the Original Klingon."  Then, General Chang says "To be or not to be" in Klingon, which for those of you who are curious goes a little something like this:

 

"taH pagh taHbe'!"

 

Now while the character in the movie may have been serious, the line of course was a joke for the human audiences watching the film.  But Star Trek fans, being the true geeks that they are, have taken this offhand joke and turned it into something truly and amazingly overdone.  First off, there's the book.  Someone actually took the time to translate the entire play of Hamlet into Klingon, and then they took it to a publisher and actually got it published.  I highly suggest checking out the book on Amazon.com.  You can look inside the first few pages of the book and get a true feeling for what Klingon Hamlet looks like.

 

And now news is coming out that someone has actually filmed scenes from Klingon Hamlet, and that these scenes will be included with the Blu-ray release Star Trek VI.  Wow...really?  Wow!  That's so geeky and awful I can't help but love it.  God damnit, now I need a Blu-ray player just so I can watch these scenes!

 

Also, that book cover is quite possibly the most awesome thing I've seen in a long time.  Klingon Hamlet holding the Skull of his friend Yorick in one hand, and a Bat'leth in the other is just too damned cool for word to describe.  And the skull even has Klingon forehead ridges on it!!!

 

(Via IO9)