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[gnome]

There's some handwaving about universal translators. It's an interesting idea, though I think it's unlikely for one to be as effective as portrayed.

But generally speaking except in situations where a universal translator could not be availalble, the fact that they don't take it out and listen between lines of a conversation can be taken as a narrative shorthand, I figure. In fact they did it quite elegantly in Star Trek VI--the courtroom scene started in Klingon with people shown listening to translators, then it swapped into English for the sake of the audience.

[sparks]

ST: TNG "Darmok".

[gnome]

ST: TNG "Darmok".

The translators could handle the words and short phrases, but wasn't prepared for meme language.

[robinson]

I wonder how the current AI Programs do with memes and image macros

So much online com is done with them

[Abdul Alhazred]

"The Paradise Syndrome" TOS episode that I watched last night and one of he few I had previously missed.

Injuns in space, not one of their better efforts. Probably not rerun much.

[robinson]

It’s a great story

[Abdul Alhazred]

Synopsis: Kirk loses his memory and is hailed as a god because Injuns are like that. Spock saves the day.

Injuns dressed in outfits you could buy at a gift shop in Cherokee, North Carolina.
Injuns have heap big Injun accents.



Of course Kirk beds the girl.
The girl dies in this one.

[sparks]

"The Paradise Syndrome" TOS episode that I watched last night and one of he few I had previously missed.

Injuns in space, not one of their better efforts. Probably not rerun much.

Miramanee was worth the cheese.

"I AM KEEROK!!!"

[Abdul Alhazred]

Think she'd look better sporting her natural skin tone?

Or green like that hot one in that other episode?

[sparks]

She had a great set of stems.

[gnome]

"The Paradise Syndrome" TOS episode that I watched last night and one of he few I had previously missed.

Injuns in space, not one of their better efforts. Probably not rerun much.

It has one benefit--it introduced "The Preservers," a source of many stories and a lot of world building in beta canon. Arguably all that world building is an influence behind what eventually appeared in TNG's "The Chase", though it has not been confirmed on-screen that the two are the same.

[Abdul Alhazred]

"The Preservers" -- That explains why there are actual real-o true-lo honest Injun Injuns in outer space.

But whatever was made of "The Preservers" later, I suspect it was ad hoc.
Just like those disembodied aliens who tried to steal the bodies of Kirk, Spock, and that red-shirted female. And the boss one called us "my children".

The universe is damn near crawling with multiple incompatible explanations of why there are humans everywhere.

[sparks]

In the ST universe there are humans and humanoids everywhere because there wouldn't be a story to tell without them.

Grow up, get a job, stop jerking off so much, move out of your mother's basement, find somebody to love and get on with life.

It's...perfectly...simple.






"It's a COOK BOOK!!!!111"

[Abdul Alhazred]

... get a job ...

Being retired is like being a NEET, but without the poverty and disrespect.

[Abdul Alhazred]

Wait wait. I've got it!

"The Preservers" spoke English. That explains a lot.

[sparks]

No no no: They spoke Swahili. Because you're white on one side and black on the other.

[robinson]

Very astute observations

[Abdul Alhazred]

In the Star Trek universe both female naval officers and hippie chicks wear heavy eye makeup.

[sparks]

One of the three times Chekov got laid.

[robinson]

The future is a foreign country