News Organization Rushes Breaking Story To Print Before All Facts Can Be Verified
“The Jenolan Caves near the Blue Mountains west of Sydney is about to become possibly the first tourist attraction in the world to launch tours in the fictional Star Trek language of Klingon.”
–Possibly the first. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s fact-checking department is hard at work trying to confirm this difficult-to-nail-down detail in its reportage about how two American “Klingon scholars” have recorded a translation of the text to the self-guided tour of the world’s oldest (are we sure about that?) dated limestone cave system and will make it available on a digital device next month. (The caves apparently get a lot of Trekker traffic because a ship called the USS Jenolan made an appearance in an episode of Next Generation.) And then, possibly my favorite part of the story: “Jenolan Caves tours will also be available in 10 other more commonly-spoken languages.”