Distinguished Speaker Series
Marc Okrand
February 19, 2026, 7 pm
Please join us as the historic Monroe House as The Arts Club of Washington
proudly hosts author, producer, linguist Marc Okrand. Marc is a linguist who devised the Klingon language heard in Star Trek motion pictures and television programs beginning with the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984). In addition to Klingon, he created dialogue in Vulcan and other languages for several Star Trek movies and television shows and the Atlantean language heard in the Walt Disney animated feature Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001).
Marc is the author of several books and is an associate producer of the documentary film Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues (2017). He translated the libretto for the Klingon opera “u” that premiered in The Netherlands in 2010 as well as the expanded version of the opera’s story in paq’bath: The Klingon Epic. He translated and recorded a Klingon version of a self-guided tour of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for their Go Flight app; and contributed dialogue to the language lab portion of the computer game Star Trek: Klingon.
He has degrees in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. His graduate work focused primarily on North American Indian languages of the West Coast.
Mr. Okrand will autograph one of his books if you brought one with you!
6:30 p.m. - Beer/Wine Open Bar
7:00 p.m. - Distinguished Speaker Marc Okrand
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
$30 Members - $40 Non-Members
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