1. Marc Okrand earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1970.
10 Facts About Marc Okrand
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Marc Okrand's dissertation was supervised by pioneering linguist Mary Haas.
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Until his retirement in 2013, Marc Okrand served as one of the directors for Live Captioning at the National Captioning Institute and as President of the board of directors of WSC Avant Bard in Arlington County, Virginia, which planned to stage "an evening of Shakespeare in Klingon" in 2010.
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Marc Okrand was then hired by Paramount Pictures to develop the Klingon language and coach the actors using it in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
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Marc Okrand was later hired to create the Romulan and Vulcan dialogue for the 2009 Star Trek film, but these lines were cut from the final release.
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Marc Okrand was involved in Star Trek Into Darkness, but only during post-production.
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Marc Okrand has co-authored the libretto of an opera in the Klingon language:.
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Marc Okrand speaks Klingon, but notes that others have attained greater fluency.
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In 2001, Marc Okrand created the Atlantean language for the Disney film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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Marc Okrand was used as an early facial model for the protagonist's character design.