klingon_story1-2  Exercise 1: From Degree to Klingon
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  1970        B.A. in linguistics, UC Santa Cruz
  1975-1978   taught linguistics at UC Santa Barbara
  1977        Ph.D., UC Berkeley (grammar of Mutsun)
  from 1978   postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian
  later       National Captioning Institute (closed and live captioning)
  1982        met a Star Trek II contact while coordinating Oscar captions;
              hired to dub four lines of Vulcan
  1984        asked by Harve Bennett to create Klingon for Star Trek III

(The order of the captioning job and the Smithsonian post is not dated in the
sources; the dates given are as the sources state them.)