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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"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
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.
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No it isn't. Open editing and you'll see.
"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
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.
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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).
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I think not, I think they refer to the race as Fek'Ihri while referring to that final boss as Fek'lhri.
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".
"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
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.
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Quote of the day.
"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