Star Trek Anti-Virus - in Klingon
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Klingon, science, Star Trek on
I’m not sure what to make of this, and it’s probably a PR stunt to make the most out of the release of the recent Star Trek movie, but security vendor Sophos have decided to release anti-virus software in Klingon.
Having a Mac I can’t really see what the difference there is to English version anti-virus software because I can’t run the exe file, but I’m guessing it does the same thing - only in Klingon.
Funny thing about Klingon is that it actually is a real language. Not in the sense that there is actually a race of Klingons, but more in the sense that a trained linguist was actually called upon to create an alien language. (More details here).
I saw the Star Trek movie recently thanks to Symantec (security and geekery could could possibly go hand in hand then), and enjoyed it. It went very quickly, which was a good sign, and all the new versions of old characters really did work for me.
Generally though when I think about Star Trek I think about Next Generation because it was more what I watched when growing up, although I do have a soft spot for Deep Space Nine.
However, this movie will make all the classic characters like Spock and Kirk at the front of Star Trek thinking, which I guess is where the belong.
There’s definite sequel potential in it, and if there’s no Klingon in part two, I will be very surprised!
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