The Creation of the Klingon Language Unsung Science with David Pogue

Where do fictional languages come from? How are they devised? Hear from the creator of the Klingon language, Marc Okrand, on his process of designing the famous conlang (constructed language) and his first few Star Trek gigs. You'd be surprised by the amount of vocabulary, syntax, and grammar that go into inventing the conlang. Host David Pogue also interviews language creator David Peterson on his conlangs, including Dothraki and High Valyrian from Game of Thrones, and Angela Carpenter, a linguistics professor at Wellesley College on the history of constructed languages. We'll be back with a new episode of the Pod Directive soon! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

You can listen to The Creation of the Klingon Language Unsung Science with David Pogue online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

The Creation of the Klingon Language Unsung Science with David Pogue is an episode from Star Trek: The Pod Directive by Star Trek.

This episode is 38:06 long.

This episode was published on Aug 8, 2023.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Star Trek: The Pod Directive when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.