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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   rIH
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     energize

Never used in a sentence.

I.e. to "power up" or initialize?  In Trek "energize" often seems to mean "activate", especially WRT the transporter.

Trek notes:

"Energize!" as command to activate transporter (TOS "The Enemy Within" ... et al.)

"We are energizing transporter beam... now." (Kirk, about to transport off his ship [ST3])

While still inside the Terran system, Kirk ordered "Energizers off!" and the Enterprise came to an apparent halt. Then Kirk ordered the warp drive engaged. (ST2) 

After being attacked by the planet-killer, Damage Control reported that the energizers were out and the Enterprise had lost warp drive. (TOS "The Doomsday Machine")

After the Enterprise's dilithium crystals had been nearly drained, Kirk ordered them re-amplified. The machine that performed this re-amplification was called the "energizer" and was located in Engineering in a special room; also called the "energizing circuits". Lazarus caused the energizer to short out when he stole two crystals; his ship took ten minutes to re-energize two of the Enterprise's drained 6 x 9 inch dilithium crystal. Lazarus' own ship took ten minutes to re-energize two of the Enterprise's stolen drained dilithium crystals. (TOS "The Alternative Factor") 

The Enterprise's warp engines were "re-calibrated and re-energized" (TOS "Tomorrow is Yesterday")


Related words:

rIHwI'  	energizer (n)

laQ 		fire/energize [e.g. thrusters] (v)
chu' 		activate (v)
Huj 		charge [up] (v)
tlhuD 	emit [energy, radiation] (v)



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons