klingon_story1-10  Exercise 1: Six-Sentence Timeline
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Any accurate wording is acceptable. A model answer:

  1. Before the language: Klingons spoke English on 1960s television, and for
     the 1979 film James Doohan and Jon Povill devised a few sounds and words.
  2. The maker: Marc Okrand, a trained linguist, was hired for Star Trek III
     (1984) because the film-makers wanted a structured language.
  3. The book: Okrand's The Klingon Dictionary (Pocket Books, 1985) set out
     the sounds, grammar and about 1,500 words.
  4. The community: Lawrence M. Schoen founded the Klingon Language Institute
     in 1992.
  5. The growth: Okrand's later books added vocabulary, and only his words
     count as canon.
  6. The use: speakers staged plays and the opera 'u', and Nick Nicholas and
     Andrew Strader produced Klingon Hamlet.