Editing Vulcan (Star Trek) (section)

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Vulcans have their own language in the ''Star Trek'' universe. Several words are heard throughout the various television series starting with the ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' episode "[[Amok Time]]". Words and dialogue are heard in the feature films ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'', ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'', ''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]'' and ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/|title=The Star Trek Transcripts|work=chakoteya.net|access-date=September 26, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spockandsaavik.com/vulcans/Vulcan.htm|title=Excellent Vulcan research, all canon sources: compiled by Brightstar on Geocities|work=spockandsaavik.com|access-date=September 26, 2015|archive-date=February 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219222041/http://www.spockandsaavik.com/vulcans/Vulcan.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Linguist [[Marc Okrand]] is credited for creating the Vulcan spoken language for ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. As in most of the films, the actors filmed their lines in English which was later dubbed with the Vulcan translation.<ref>According to Robert Wise's commentary in the Director's edition DVD, it was Gene Roddenberry's idea to have the Vulcans speak their own language. [Wise, Robert. ''Star Trek: The Motion Picture Directors Edition'' [Disc 1]. Special features: Commentary] The translation into Vulcan was made by actor [[James Doohan]]. Doohan observed the actors' lip movements and created new vocal "sounds" for them to dub over their original English. According to the DVD commentary of the film ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'', actors Leonard Nimoy and [[Kirstie Alley]], portraying Spock and [[Saavik]] respectively, also spoke their lines in English, and later dubbed in Vulcan that corresponded with the movements of their mouths in the scene. {{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Did-eVQDc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/e5Did-eVQDc| archive-date=2021-12-11 | url-status=live|title=Marc Okrand on Klingon|date=May 2, 2012|work=YouTube|access-date=September 26, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>