[Tlhingan-hol] squirrel

[SuStel]

On 11/15/2014 1:56 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> qorvIt - rodent like animal listed as a farm pest, according to my
>> notes canon from a novel I think. Could have chosen a Qa', if a
>> Qa'Hom is too small, or some other small animal. No idea if a
>> boqrat is anything like a rat but it might work.
>
> It's from "Klingon Empire: A Burning House" by Keith R.A. DeCandido;
> a farmyard pest found on the conquered world of Pheben III. I don't
> think it's established that it's rodent-like, though, or even
> mammalian; just that it's a pest. It's also mentioned in "The Klingon
> Art of War", where it's made clear that korvits were also found on
> Qo'noS, even before the days of Kahless. So, presumably, the species
> is native to Qo'noS but a handful of specimens found their way to
> Pheben III as stowaways or something, and then proceeded to breed
> like Australian rabbits. Either that, or there's a species indigenous
> to Pheben III that's so similar to korvits that they decided to just
> call them Pheben III. Maybe most Klingons call them "Phebenian
> korvits" (*vIyben* *qorvItmey*?) or something, but the farmers who've
> settled there leave out the first word for the sake of convenience.

I'm pretty sure there's a Deep Space Nine episode where a Klingon calls 
Odo a "kurrit," and Odo repeats the word patronizingly. I don't know 
whether the novels or the episode came first, or exactly which episode 
it is.

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