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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!

Temba, his arms wide!

I liked that episode. It also brings up the interesting idea that even if there were a "universal" translator, a language can still be indecipherable due to hidden contextual knowledge
 
My wife and I just watched this episode a few days ago.

Her just now while watching an episode: "Aw, that was such a nice planet. I hate that crystalline entity. He's such a fucking jackass. Why's he gotta go around and do that for?"
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
My wife and I just watched this episode a few days ago.

Her just now while watching an episode: "Aw, that was such a nice planet. I hate that crystalline entity. He's such a fucking jackass. Why's he gotta go around and do that for?"
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Seriously. Fuck the Crystalline Entity and its yellow laser beam of smiting.
 
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: silverpig
My wife and I just watched this episode a few days ago.

Her just now while watching an episode: "Aw, that was such a nice planet. I hate that crystalline entity. He's such a fucking jackass. Why's he gotta go around and do that for?"
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Seriously. Fuck the Crystalline Entity and its yellow laser beam of smiting.
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What was that black goo thing that ate one of the crew members? That thing had personality.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: silverpig
My wife and I just watched this episode a few days ago.

Her just now while watching an episode: "Aw, that was such a nice planet. I hate that crystalline entity. He's such a fucking jackass. Why's he gotta go around and do that for?"
Click to expand...

Seriously. Fuck the Crystalline Entity and its yellow laser beam of smiting.
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What was that black goo thing that ate one of the crew members? That thing had personality.
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Armus. I wouldn't mind an Armus vs Crystalline Entity battle-royale.
 
lol, I just watched this episode for the first time a week ago. Of course, I wondered how they would teach the language to children. How would they tell a story that explained that: Shaka, When the walls fell, meant failure if you had to use a metaphor for every idea? I still loved the episode though.
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: silverpig
My wife and I just watched this episode a few days ago.

Her just now while watching an episode: "Aw, that was such a nice planet. I hate that crystalline entity. He's such a fucking jackass. Why's he gotta go around and do that for?"
Click to expand...

Seriously. Fuck the Crystalline Entity and its yellow laser beam of smiting.
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What was that black goo thing that ate one of the crew members? That thing had personality.
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It was called "Denise Crosby's career killer"
 
Originally posted by: rockyct
lol, I just watched this episode for the first time a week ago. Of course, I wondered how they would teach the language to children. How would they tell a story that explained that: Shaka, When the walls fell, meant failure if you had to use a metaphor for every idea? I still loved the episode though.
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It probably made more sense in their native language. Remember, the universal translator only translates speech patterns. A metaphor in the native language might really be something more generic, like "Blah" = "Shaka, when the walls fell." Just like a child learns the word "No", if I were to teach my kid no by saying "I'm sorry Dave, but I can't let you do that" it would become associated by the local context to the words.
 
That was a good episode. Its funny though that the Aliens speak in metaphor, but they also speak in english.
 
Originally posted by: techs
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: TheVrolok
Originally posted by: silverpig
My wife and I just watched this episode a few days ago.

Her just now while watching an episode: "Aw, that was such a nice planet. I hate that crystalline entity. He's such a fucking jackass. Why's he gotta go around and do that for?"
Click to expand...

Seriously. Fuck the Crystalline Entity and its yellow laser beam of smiting.
Click to expand...

What was that black goo thing that ate one of the crew members? That thing had personality.
Click to expand...

It was called "Denise Crosby's career killer"
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I thought her appearance in Playboy did that.
 
Originally posted by: KB
That was a good episode. Its funny though that the Aliens speak in metaphor, but they also speak in english.
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It's the universal translator duh!
 
Is that the episode where the special effects group screwed up and had the Enterprise's phaser shooting out of it's torpedo launcher?
 
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