What plays are the Shakespeare quotes in Star Trek VI from?
There are a number of quotes in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country that are from Shakespeare plays. The title is one, and is cited on screen:
Chancellor Gorkon: I give you a toast: the undiscovered country. [The others look confused] The future.
Everyone: [Raises glasses] The undiscovered country.
Spock: Hamlet: Act Three, Scene One.
Gorkon: You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
There are many other Shakespeare quotes in the film, mostly from General Chang. What plays are they from?
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But I am constant as the northern star,
Julius Caesar Act 3 Scene 1 Page 4
To be or not to be?
Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1
The undiscovered country
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark Act 3 Scene 1
Once more unto the breach, dear friends
Henry 5 Act 3 Scene 1
Cry havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War
Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 1,
Tickle us, do we not laugh? Prick us, do we not bleed? Wrong us, shall we not revenge?"
The merchant of Venice Act 3 Scene 1 Page 1
I hope I got them all. As Robin Williams once said...I shall get me hence and touch myself....Anon
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Which two Shakespeare plays are translated into Klingon?
Hamlet and Much Ado about Nothing have both been translated as part of the Klingon Shakespeare Restoration Project by the Klingon Language Institute.What episode does Picard quote Shakespeare?
Picard, quoting Shakespeare, is a callback to the ST:TNG episode "The Most Toys" S3 E11, where upon the apparent death of Data Picard quotes Shakespeare's Hamlet, "He was a man. Take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again."Why do Klingons quote Shakespeare?
The Klingon Hamlet was inspired by a popular line in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in which the Klingon chancellor Gorkon comments to Captain Kirk that \u201cYou have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.\u201d (The phrase \u201cthe undiscovered country\u201d is itself a phrase from ...What a piece of work is man How noble in reason?
He says: 'What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!Shakespeare in StarTrek
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Spoken by Martia: "I thought I would assume a pleasing shape." Hamlet: "The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."
All spoken by Chang:
"Parting is such sweet sorrow" Romeo and Juliet
"Have we not heard the chimes at midnight?" Henry IV Part 2
"Let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings" Richard II
"Our revels now are ended" The Tempest
"The game's afoot" Henry V
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