Worf <3

[tsukikage]

The Federation is root beer!
Almost as good as "the cake is a lie".

Something I don't understand about universal translators on Star Trek: how come some times you can hear them when they're speaking Klingon, or whatever language? And I don't believe it's because the universal translator can't handle "it is a good day to die".

Another bit of Star Trek tech I've never understood. Someone taps on their comm badge and says "[Sisko] to [Bashir], [I need you at ops]". So, I totally buy that the communicator can identify who to "send the message to", but what I don't understand how it can do it such that Y hears the whole message from "Sisko". I mean, I guess it's possible the comm systems send a "delayed feed", if you will, but it doesn't seem that way. It's like the comm system is just psychic. ^_^;

I wanna find out if my Star Trek technical manual and Enterprise D blueprints are still at my mom's. I'm quite in the mood to go over them now.

Leaving for work in an hour if I wanna get to TCF, 90 mins. if I don't make it in time.

Comments

[conuly]

1. Because the UTs are plot-dependent.

2. So are the comms.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Shush, you. :-P

[carve037.livejournal.com]

It makes even less sense with SG1, because you know there isn't a translation mechanic, and the movie had the language barrier be an issue, so why just handwave it for the show? It bothers me. If I ever run the SG1 tabletop RPG that I have all the books for, I'm gonna make damn sure translation's a problem. It'll be like charades with P90s.