David Warner in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (via Memory-Alpha.org)

Though Christopher Plummer stole 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as General Chang, a Shakespeare-quoting Klingon with an eye patch, the seminal line in that final adventure on the final frontier actually went to the guy playing his boss.

“You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon,” says the Klingon ruler played by David Warner.

And in September 2010, Washington Shakespeare Company did exactly that, staging scenes from Hamlet, Julius Caesar and Much Ado About Nothing in the Klingon language, which is mostly grunting and glottal stops. (The company also performed English versions that night.) It was a big event for fans of the Bard and the Great Bird of the Galaxy alike. They even brought in George Takei, and he’s not even a real Klingon! (What, Michael Dorn wasn’t available?)

Now called WSC Avant Bard, the theater company will on March 4 go Trekkie again with Shakespeare in Klingon II: The Wrath of (Michael) Kahn, for which the artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company will be in attendance, apparently playing the role of Ricardo Montalbán (who played the unforgettable, don’t-you-dare-try-to-recast-him-for-the-reboot Khan.)

Planned for the sequel—which, by the way, is named after the one Star Trek film starring the original cast to not feature any Klingons—are more Hamlet excerpts, along with snippets of The Tempest and other titles.

Frankly, color me unimpressed with the selection. For starters, they already did the Danish Play. Also, Klingons are a fierce warrior race; I really don’t see them tramping about an enchanted island with Prospero and a bunch of nymphs. (The Tempest is kind of a revenge fantasy, though Klingons tend to prefer honor killings to magic tricks.)

Still, the novelty is not lost. Of all the theaters in the galaxy, it makes sense that WSC Avant Bard would be the one to stage Shakespeare in Klingon. The president of its board of directors is Marc Okrand, who developed the fictional language for the Star Trek franchise.

The evening of Klingon Shakespeare, to be performed at the Rosslyn Spectrum in Arlington, will be followed by a discussion between Kahn, Okrand, WSC Avant Bard artistic director Christopher Henley and “special guest Klingons.” Tickets are $85 or $250.

And at the end of the evening Michael Kahn will detonate the Genesis Device.