 Nichelle Nichols (qv) objected to the scene in which the crew  desperately searches through old printed Klingonese translation  dictionaries in order to speak the language without the standard  universal translator being used. It seemed more logical to her that  Uhura, being the ships chief communications officer, would know the  language of the Federations main enemy, or at least have the  appropriate information in the computer. However, director  Nicholas Meyer (qv) bluntly overruled her.