Re: A Transcription of the Star Trek Movie Vulcan
Rob Zook 
Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:38:20 -0600

Hi all,

Saavik spoke some more Vulcan in ST:TSFS. She spoke to the young
rapidly aging Spock. Also, later on in the movie T'lar the "high 
priestess?", atop Mt. Seleya spoke some interesting words, some of which
the movie provided translations for and some of which it did not.

Sa'avik'wiimic..,kuups da liiben
I am Saavik..,can you speak?

pom kii sada
So it has come.

do nii du sarafel
Do you trust me?

When the party carrying Spock's body approached her T'lar intoned:
Kal tor falii Kal.

Sarek asked for Fal-tor-pan "the refusion"

As T'lar laid her hands on the brows of Spock and McCoy she slowly
intoned: Ven mal navuun.

I kind of wonder after reviewing the movie again, if perhaps Mt. Seleya
is a training center for Vulcan Psi power, the way Gol is a training
center for those seeking Kolinaar.

I would like to propose we keep -'wiimic as an affix meaning "I name/
introduce myself as..." or "my name is".

Finally, I did not quite get the transcription quite correct, from the
previous movies. In many places I used i when, I should have used ii, 
and ^ in some places where I should have used i. I think we can take 
the Gol Speech as useless to us, but I think we might salvage something 
from Saavik and Spock's conversation in ST:TWOK:

yej nu mordlan yik banu
He's never what I expect, Sir.

wawrr rrii ix wit banu otlam
What surprises you, Leutenant?

iic veni..,komi
He's so..,Human.

liingeth flamii bufith*, Saavikam
Nobody's perfect, Saavik.

Perhaps banu acts as a formalizer? So adding it to an utterance
adds an extra degree of politeness as one would expect in a military
environment. So in that first sentence the "Sir" is implied?. Then in 
the second sentence Spock responds in banu mode, but adds the diminutive 
-[k/l]am to her title and implies permission to speak informally (with 
/ot/ being a word for Leutenant). So in her next utterance Saavik drops 
the formal mode and just speaks her mind, and Spock responds just as 
informally.

Rob Z.