So much for the Star Trek adventure in Vegas...
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From: Carl Pagano [pagan...@comcast.net]
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Subject: [NMCAVER] On the lighter side-a Klingon Cave talk..
Australian caves offer new tour — in Klingon
Jenolan Caves first immortalized in the Next Generation episode 'Relics'
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by Belinda Goldsmith

updated 7/27/2010 10:22:32 AM ET
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SYDNEY — Staff at the Jenolan Caves west of Sydney have added a new
out-of-this-world attraction — a tour in the Star Trek language
Klingon.
Currently a self-guided audio tour at the caves in the Blue Mountains
is offered in eight languages, but staff came up with the idea of
adding the fictional language Klingon as the caves did once feature
in the popular TV series.
"In the Star Trek universe, Jenolan Caves was first immortalized in
the Next Generation episode 'Relics,' through the naming of a 'Sydney
Class' Starship — the USS Jenolan," the Jenolan Caves Reserve Trust
said in a statement.
"Now, this relationship will be developed further, when Jenolan Caves
adds the language of Star Trek's great warrior race to a tour of
their most popular cave."
The Jenolan cave system, located about 109 miles west of Sydney, is
enormous with over 40 25 miles of passages and incorporating caves,
underground rivers and natural archways.
The Klingon tour has been set up for the Nettle Cave, which attracts
up to 200,000 visitors a year, and will start on August 22.
Jenolan Caves guide Gordon Mills said Klingon language experts
Michael Roney Jr and Tracy Canfield earlier this month flew in from
the United States to record the audio tour.
"We wanted to do something a bit obscure and we will now be the first
tourist attraction on this planet at least to have a Klingon tour,"
Mills, a self-described Star Trek enthusiast, told Reuters.
"There is a fantasy side to caves and a timeless nature, rather like
Star Trek, so we thought this was fitting."
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