20 Things You Didn't Know About Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
18. Read It In The Original Klingon
In the film, Chancellor Gorkon makes a reference to Shakespeare being read in the Original Klingon. Now, on-screen, that's assumed to be a joke, despite the number of times that General Chang proceeds to quote the Bard throughout the film.
Members of the Klingon Language Institute took this line and ran with it, proceeding to translate Hamlet into Klingon. Mark Okrand had devised a Klingon dictionary prior to the release of Star Trek VI, so the material was there to work with.
Hamlet has since been performed for charity, as has another of Shakespeare's plays - Much Ado About Nothing. Excerpts from both were attended by George Takei, with The Klingon Hamlet being published by Pocket Books in novel form as well.