THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Marc Okrand

By Liz Essley
Published March 3, 2012 5:00am ET
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THE 3-MINUTE INTERVIEW: Marc Okrand
Okrand, a linguist and Adams Morgan resident, is a director at the National Captioning Institute. But he’s better known as the inventor of Klingon, the language of choice for “Star Trek” fans. Why did you create Klingon? Paramount hired me to do it. They hired me because two years before that I did Vulcan. And […]

Okrand, a linguist and Adams Morgan resident, is a director at the National Captioning Institute. But he’s better known as the inventor of Klingon, the language of choice for “Star Trek” fans.

Why did you create Klingon?

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