[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: luSpet

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, December 08, 2011
> 
> Klingon word:   luSpet
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     black hole (astronomical phenomenon)

As used in canon:

  ghe''orDaq luSpet 'oH DaqlIj'e' 
  You belong in a black hole in the Netherworld! PK


Trek Trivia:

The Enterprise was caught by "a black star of high gravitational attraction" in the area of Starbase 9 near Earth.  The "rebound" while pulling free opened a time warp and sent the ship back to 1969. (TOS "Tomorrow is Yesterday"; broadcast 1967)  "Notably, this was eleven months before John Wheeler coined the term black hole.  Before that, the generally used term was 'frozen star'." (QeS)

"In the year 2387, the galaxy is threatened by an unusually volatile supernova.  Ambassador Spock pilots a ship carrying "red matter", intending to create an artificial black hole to consume the supernova.  Before Spock completes his mission, the supernova destroys the planet Romulus." (ST11: cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(film) )


Related nouns:

{Dejpu'bogh Hov}  collapsed star 

"Neutron stars are collapsed stars, but not (yet) black holes." (QeS) 

"The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star [following a hypernova is called a collapsar]"  (Wiktionary)

{puyjaq}  nova


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons