Richard
Richard asked Daniel Schinhofen:

I was rereading some of the books and ran into the name Petak. I was wondering, is this a reference to the Klingon insult P'tak/petaQ meaning weirdo?

Daniel Schinhofen That would have been interesting, but sadly it wasn't intentional.

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