On Thu, 19 May 2016 08:17:13 +0000 (UTC), "William Ewing (via tml list)"
<xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

>about the Final Reflection: Vrenn became Krenn upon joining the Navy,
>not becoming a captain. Had he gone Marine, he'd hae become Mrenn.
>Specialists (like science officers) become Arenn. The sutai-Rustazh
>(vestai, tai, etc.) indicate social rank and the line one belongs to,
>but is saved for formal occasions. Thus Krenn, Kang, Kumara, Koloth, Kor
>for most usage, and the social rank honorific (tai, vestai, etc) and
>line name combo are not used often. 

I admittedly am working from memory (can't lay my hands on my copy of
tFR), but I think you're adding information that wasn't actually in the
book - though I'm not saying that your information is wrong or
non-canonical for that Klingon society; I'm saying that I don't find it
in my memory of the particular book. Ford did write other Star Trek
books, and may have done for "Klingonaase" and its associated culture as
Marc Okrand did/does for tlhIngan-Hol and _its_ associated culture, and
provided more background information outside the formal books/movies/TV
episodes.

I do recall that there were several honorific prefixes for the line name
(tai, vestai, sutai, epetai, possibly a couple of others), and should
have additionally called that out in my original posting, as it was
quite relevant and to the point of the post.

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