Citations:bat'leth
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English citations of bat'leth
Noun: "double-ended curved blade weapon"[edit]
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- 1990 November 5, “Reunion”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Worf (Michael Dorn):
- It is a bat'leth. It belonged to my father... It has been in our family for ten generations.
- 1995 October 1, Diane Carey, The Way of the Warrior (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), →ISBN, →OL, ch. 10, page 109:
- His bat'leth lay on the blanket, its curved form and razor-edged tines seeming incongruous there beside his Fleet-issue phaser, his items of off-duty clothing, and a picture of his son, Alexander.
- 1998 October 1, Peter David, Triangle: Imzadi II (Star Trek: The Next Generation), →ISBN, →OL, ch. 20, page 305:
- And suddenly Kahless dropped his bat'leth, brought his hands around, and slapped them together on the descending blade. The move had been perfectly timed, he held the bat'leth immobile. A stunned expression crossed Gowron's face, and then Kahless ripped the bat'leth right out of Gowron's grasp. Before Gowron could move, Kahless whipped the curved blade around and brought it right to the base of Gowron's throat.
- 2008 August 25, Jack Loftus, “U.K. Knife Amnesty Program Turns Up Klingon Bat’leth, No Sign of Worf”, in Gizmodo Australia[1], retrieved 2012-11-04:
- The U.K. is looking to clean up its streets with a knife amnesty program, so you can imagine their surprise when a Klingon, er, excuse me, a Klingon fan, turned in a replica Bat’leth over the weekend.
- 2009 March 31, Kirstin Beyer, Full Circle (Star Trek: Voyager), →ISBN, →OL, page 119:
- Unlike most bat'leths, which had two sharpened edges that came to points at either end of the weapon, the blade Kohlar had given her—modeled on the original sword of Kahless, as were all of the bat'leths resting in the trench—contained a third pointed edge in the center of the blade.
- 2009 February 4, Kieran Nicholson, “Klingon sword used in two Colorado Springs heists”, in Denver Post[2]:
- Officers searched the area but didn't find the robber or the weapon, which was described as a "bat'leth."
- 2011 March 31, “The Zarnecki Incursion” (15:59), in The Big Bang Theory, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Howard Wolowitz, Sheldon Cooper, and Leonard Hofstadter (Simon Helberg, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki):
- Howard: Why did you bring that?
Sheldon: No weapon strikes more fear into a man's heart than a Klingon bat'leth.
Leonard: OK, let's get clear on something. We just gonna tell this guy to transfer all your stuff back into your account and then be on our way. No one's bat'lething anybody.
- 2012 December 21, Carol Pinchefsky, “Watch Gamer Take an Assassin's Creed Rooftop 'Leap of Faith' (with Hilariously Predictable Results)”, in Forbes[3], retrieved 2015-05-07:
- Who’s the better captain, Kirk or Picard? Ya see, this is a question meant to be settled among friends verbally, over drinks and snacks, and not, say, in an arena with a bat’leth.