title_body: Is the Klingon alphabet inspired by Tibetan alphabet? Is the Klingon alphabet inspired by Tibetan alphabet?
  
  Because they look similar..
upvoted_answer: Considering this question is a rehash of another question on SX, I'm inclined to say it's chance resemblance — and not a very high one at that. It is very highly plausible that it was designed by a non-linguist at Paramount (if I understand correctly) at a time when there was no easy way of finding out about Tibetan even with the budding Internet of 1992 when the aforelinked article was published in the HolQeD journal of the KLI. The article specifically says:
  
  
    More recently we’ve been treated to a different alphabet, (often incorrectly attributed to Michael
    Okuda, scenic designer for Star Trek: The Next Generation™), one which corresponds to the phonemes of
    Klingon as described by Okrand in The Klingon Dicitionary. While the characters themselves are easily identifiable from background displays on Star Trek: The Next Generation™ (assuming one has access to video
    equipment and a reasonably large television screen), there has never been an “official” release describing
    the particular relationship between individual glyphs and specific sounds. As Okuda has indicated (HolQeD
    1:1, 11) all Klingon background displays are composed for appearance, not communication. And yet, an
    unofficial letter to a Klingon fan group from an unnamed source at Paramount resulted in the following
    alphabet: [...]