When Lawrence M. Schoen was let go from his first university job – there’d been financial trouble and he was the newest instructor in the largest department, he says matter-of-factly – he needed ...

Glen Proechel, a linguist and chess master who once hosted a Klingon Language Camp in Red Lake Falls, Minn., for devotees of the fictional race in the Star Trek television and movie series, died April ...

"wIy cha'! HaSta! cha yIghuS! 'eH... baH!" These are the words you hear at the very beginning of the very first "Star Trek" movie -- the one from 1979 with Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock that was ...

The Klingon Language Institute will hold a free seminar on Klingon culture at the Cannes Film Festival. "These are very entertaining, educational learning sessions," said Dr. Lawrence Schoen, Klingon ...

The latest salvo in a lawsuit over a Star Trek fan film has brought out constructed language nerds in force, and it makes for some really great reading. The Language Creation Society, a nonprofit ...

When Denver-based movie director Alexandre O. Philippe came across a copy of Hamlet that had, according to its cover, been restored to the "original" Klingon text, it opened a door to a strange world ...