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A Star Trek fan has penned a poetic tribute to the tragic actor Anton Yelchin in the intergalactic language of Klingon.

Alex Greene says he was deeply moved by the death of the actor, who was crushed between his car and a metal gate on the driveway of his Los Angeles home last month.

The IT expert, from Wrexham, North Wales, has been a a Trekkie since he was a boy began learning the complicated language in 1986 and says it took him around a year to master its intricacies and guttural pronunciation.

Alex, 52, said: “It’s actually surprising how many people are now fluent in Klingon. There aren’t too many in the UK but there are thousands in America and quite a few in Australia.

“There are even scientific papers that have been written in Klingon. The language was invented by American linguist Marc Okrand for the 1983 film Star Trek 3, The Search for Spock. He also invented the Vulcan language.

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“A Klingon dictionary was published in 1985 and has 5,000 words which, with prefixes and sub prefixes, expand its content to 48,000 words.

"There are 26 letters and roughly Klingon uses the same vowels and consonants we use in English. But the words are spoken with a lot more force.

“The language has been around for around 30 years now with Klingon being first heard when it was spoken in the opening scenes of 1979 film Star Trek. Marc Okrand based the language on those first few words.”

He now writes poetry in the language and has been appointed by Odeon Cinema as the Klingon Ambassador to Wales.

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Alex is set to get the red carpet treatment as guest of honor at Wrexham's first screening of the movie Star Trek Beyond in the Eagles Meadow shopping centre on July 22, where he will recite the poem in Klingon before giving the English translation.

He added: “I will also recite my poem to the memory of Yelchin. I hope it gets a few more people interested in learning Klingon. It’s a fun language to learn.”

The cinema's manager, Andy Elvis, said: “Alex’s ability to speak Klingon fluently is remarkable.

"I think he just liked the intellectual challenge of learning a complicated language such as Klingon.”