Robyn Stewart

Robyn Stewart in 2013
Robyn Stewart (born 1967,
Klingon name:
Qov) is a
very experienced Klingonist who lives in Canada. She holds the
KLCP rank of
po'wI' (expert), and is among the few people in the world who can speak
Klingon fluently. She was a
Beginner's Grammarian in
1997 and wrote regular beginner's lessons in the KLI's quarterly journal
HolQeD. Robyn is known not only for her conversational fluency, but also her abilities as an author of original Klingon fiction; her novel
nuq bop bom What is the Song About? is the longest original story ever written in the language.
She was honoured for her eminence as a Klingonist by being inducted into the order of the
Friends of Maltz in
2001 and again in
2016 for her work on the
Learn Klingon Online course.
In
2016 she was hired as Klingon language consultant for the new TV series
Star Trek: Discovery.
Klingon name
The choice of Robyn's
Klingon name was influenced by
William Martin (
charghwI') and
Alan Anderson (
ghunchu'wI'), who both have names formed by the pattern
verb+
wI'. She tried to translate the original meaning of her name, meaning something close to "shining bright with fame", into Klingon. She could choose between
noywI',
bochwI' and
wovwI' and decided to use the last one. She soon noticed that people using that name spelled it with a major case W or
pronounced -wI' incorrectly as "wee". She look at the klingons in
John M. Ford's works, who change the first letter of their names to K when they attain rank in the fleet. Since klingon has no
letter K, she replaced the
w with a
Q and dropped the suffix.
Her name
Qov has no meaning, and
Marc Okrand has confirmed that he would not give that word any meaning.
See also
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