The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

21 May 2006

Where life meets Trek

There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China." The follow-up to this is "Only Kirk could meet the Klingons halfway."

As for the Klingons themselves, perhaps their best-known phrase is "It is a good day to die." David Fleck reports that it, too, has terrestrial origins:

Googling the phrase itself, I came across a few sites that listed Crazy Horse as the speaker — that's the kind of bad-ass thing you'd expect Crazy Horse to say — but the overall consensus is that it was the Oglala chief Low Dog.

(I'd never heard of him before either.)

And now we have.

Posted at 4:01 PM to Almost Yogurt


If, like me, you'd seen Flatliners seven times in ten days when it first came out, people would look at you funny. Also you'd recognize Kiefer Sutherland as the source of the quote.

Posted by: Matt at 7:45 PM on 21 May 2006