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It's "Fek'lhri" with an L, NOT "Fek'ihri" with an extra I

paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
They're named for a canon character, Fek'lhr (pronounced 'Fek-Lar') but the name is misspelled in several places throughout STO. Not everywhere the name appears, but alas, enough for the misspelling to catch on among a good chunk of the player base. Way to go, Cryptic. :P

(Sorry for the rant everyone, but this has driven me nuts for some time and I finally decided to get it off my chest. We now return to our regularly scheduled bellyaching about lockboxes, OP escorts, etc.)
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    According to Memory Alpha, Fek'Ihri is spelled with two "I"s.
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    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    According to Memory Alpha, Fek'Ihri is spelled with two "I"s.

    That's a lowercase L on the MA page, not a capital I.

    Edit: Or at least, it should be. For grins I copy-pasted the name from the page to a text editor, and it came out "Fek'Ihri". Methinks that's a typo.
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    That's a lowercase L on the MA page, not a capital I.

    No it isn't. Open editing and you'll see.
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    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    No it isn't. Open editing and you'll see.

    If that's true then the name on the MA "Fek'Ihri" page has to be a typo (though it does make Cryptic's propagating the error in STO understandable). Again, they're named after an established canon character spelled Fek'lhr with a lowercase L. There's no reason the L should have been intentionally changed to an I.
  • wufangchuwufangchu Member Posts: 778 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Maybe this will halp this silly argument.. it's L ( pronounced Ell )

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhP42F-tSZw
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  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    wufangchu wrote: »
    Maybe this will halp this silly argument.. it's L ( pronounced Ell )

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhP42F-tSZw

    Also, the same copy/pasting-into-text-editor trick I mentioned above shows that MA correctly spells "Fek'lhr" on that page (i.e. with a lowercase L).

    Edit: It doesn't help matters that Cryptic doesn't even spell the name consistently, as I mentioned in the OP. In some places it is spelled with a lowercase "i" ("Fek'ihri"); in others with either an uppercase "I" or lowercase "L" ("Fek'lhri/Fek'Ihri", highly ambiguous as rendered in STO's sans-serif fonts).
  • lucianazetalucianazeta Member Posts: 741 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    You are assuming it's an error.

    I think not, I think they refer to the race as Fek'Ihri while referring to that final boss as Fek'lhri.
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I know "Fek'lhr" has a lowercase L rather than an uppercase I, but with the Fek'Ihri it's the other way around. Memory Alpha has it recorded that way in both the article body and the article name. Find the search results for both, and you'll find that "Fek'lhri" redirects to "Fek'Ihri".

    And the Fek'Ihri aren't necessarily named after Fek'lhr. They share the "Fek" name, but that could just be a quirk in the language. I'm no expert in Klingonese, so I don't know for sure.

    EDIT: Found the script for the episode here. The correct spelling is "Fek'Ihri".
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    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • paxfederaticapaxfederatica Member Posts: 1,496 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    EDIT: Found the script for the episode here. The correct spelling is "Fek'Ihri".

    Meanwhile I dragged my DS9 Season 4 DVD out of my closet to actually hear the name spoken. Worf does indeed call them "Fek'Ihri" or something close to it (at about the 20-minute mark as he holds the Sword of Kahless for the first time).

    So, I stand corrected - Cryptic did get it right, albeit confusingly (again, sometimes they capitalize the I, which looks exactly like a lowercase L in the STO fonts, but other times they don't).

    Either way, I now have finally gotten that bit of madness out of my system. :)
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,559 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Eh, Fek' em all, I say...
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    Eh, Fek' em all, I say...

    Quote of the day. :D
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    "Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
    -Thomas Marrone
  • theanothernametheanothername Member Posts: 1,513 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I usually pronounce them "The Fek... uhm klingon demons".
  • wufangchuwufangchu Member Posts: 778 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Well, I stand corrected as well.. I knew Fek'lhir whas Fek'lhir, but i always though of the Fek'Ihiri as the Fek'lhiri being followers of Fek'lhir.. Oh well, no ones perfect.. least of all me..
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  • temp3rustemp3rus Member Posts: 125 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Well thank Fek'Ihri we got that one out of the way ;)
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