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Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra!

Originally posted by: Minjin
Its been awhile, I don't remember this episode. Anyone give a quick synopsis?
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Alien spaceman dudes speak in excerpts from folk tales and legends from their culture's history and Piccard and the gang have to figure out WTF they mean by studying the culture and learning the stories and characters involved.
 
Originally posted by: newb111
God I hated that episode
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I hear ya. And at the end Picard is on the Enterprise talking to Darmok and everyone's like "What the fuck?"

Picard gives his trademark smirk and it was all like an inside joke for him.
 
Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Originally posted by: newb111
God I hated that episode
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I hear ya. And at the end Picard is on the Enterprise talking to Darmok and everyone's like "What the fuck?"

Picard gives his trademark smirk and it was all like an inside joke for him.
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Not to mention it doesn't make any sense at all to have an alien race that communicates solely by talking about things that happened in the past. I mean, I know it's Star Trek, but the sheer absurdity of that episode still bothered me.
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Not to mention it doesn't make any sense at all to have an alien race that communicates solely by talking about things that happened in the past. I mean, I know it's Star Trek, but the sheer absurdity of that episode still bothered me.
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The episode made perfect sense. With thousands of intelligent lifeforms, many reaching space travel, they are not all going to think and communicate the same way we do.

It was explained in the episode... they think completely in parables/metaphors. The Universal Translator could translate the words, but couldn't interpret the meanings because it had no reference.
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Not to mention it doesn't make any sense at all to have an alien race that communicates solely by talking about things that happened in the past. I mean, I know it's Star Trek, but the sheer absurdity of that episode still bothered me.
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The episode made perfect sense. With thousands of intelligent lifeforms, many reaching space travel, they are not all going to think and communicate the same way we do.

It was explained in the episode... they think completely in parables/metaphors. The Universal Translator could translate the words, but couldn't interpret the meanings because it had no reference.
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The thing is, how do you build starships when you can only talk in metaphors relating to past events?
 
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Not to mention it doesn't make any sense at all to have an alien race that communicates solely by talking about things that happened in the past. I mean, I know it's Star Trek, but the sheer absurdity of that episode still bothered me.
Click to expand...

The episode made perfect sense. With thousands of intelligent lifeforms, many reaching space travel, they are not all going to think and communicate the same way we do.

It was explained in the episode... they think completely in parables/metaphors. The Universal Translator could translate the words, but couldn't interpret the meanings because it had no reference.
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The thing is, how do you build starships when you can only talk in metaphors relating to past events?
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How do you tell someone to adjust the warp modulation frequency to 143.76 as opposed to 148.22?
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Not to mention it doesn't make any sense at all to have an alien race that communicates solely by talking about things that happened in the past. I mean, I know it's Star Trek, but the sheer absurdity of that episode still bothered me.
Click to expand...

The episode made perfect sense. With thousands of intelligent lifeforms, many reaching space travel, they are not all going to think and communicate the same way we do.

It was explained in the episode... they think completely in parables/metaphors. The Universal Translator could translate the words, but couldn't interpret the meanings because it had no reference.
Click to expand...

The thing is, how do you build starships when you can only talk in metaphors relating to past events?
Click to expand...

How do you tell someone to adjust the warp modulation frequency to 143.76 as opposed to 148.22?
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SHAKA! When the warp core blew...
 
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