bach

shoot

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

bɑt͡ʃ

Sound out bach letter by letter:

• bbb as in 'bay'
• aɑa as in 'father'
• cht͡ʃch as in 'chew'

• The verb used for shoot when referring to disruptors is bach. Technically speaking, one shoots the energy beam from the disruptor. The general word for any energy beam (ray) is tIH, so a disruptor's beam is nISwI' tIH. Thus, the correct formation is nISwI' tIH bach (shoot the disruptor beam). As a practical matter, however, the tIH is often left out, and nISwI' bach is the common way to say shoot a disruptor. Similarly, pu' bach is shoot a phaser. [KGT p.56]

TKD · TKW p.148

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