From an amicus brief filed in April by the Language Creation Society, a nonprofit organization, in support of the producers of a crowd-funded Star Trek fan film. Last year, the producers were sued for copyright infringement by CBS and Paramount Pictures, which own the rights to the franchise. The case is ongoing in a California district court.

Before 1984, when actors played Klingons in Star Trek television programs or movies, they simply uttered guttural sounds or spoke in English. Paramount hired Marc Okrand to create dialogue for Klingon characters in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The version…