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    Has Star Trek ever had a Klingon character that did not speak what ever the Federation is speaking? Only Klingon?

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      Tons. Most of them aren’t speaking English in the first place, it’s the Universal Translator

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      The only trek species that has to learn a language to interact with The Federation would be the Tamarians, since theirs is the only language that completely defeated the universal translator (they speak in metaphor, instead of directly)

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        Honorable mention to some of the aliens they interact with in Enterprise, before the Universal Translator was fully working. Though technically they weren’t the Federation yet.