ummthatguy@lemmy.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAs the figures trickle in, let's distract ourselves a bitlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1140arrow-down14
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minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoI’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
minus-squareummthatguy@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 months agoFound it per wiki: The film’s director Nicholas Meyer said the idea for having the Klingons claim Shakespeare as their own was based on Nazi Germany’s attempt to claim William Shakespeare as German before World War II.
minus-squareSatyrSack@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoDid Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
I’m asking for a deeper origin of the joke.
Found it per wiki:
Fascinating.
Did Chekhov ever claim Shakespeare to be Russian?
We gotta go deeper