• How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Dec 21 04:29:22 2024
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Dec 21 12:29:15 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5


    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.


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  • From Daniel@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Dec 23 20:05:43 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5


    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    D

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  • From The Last Doctor@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Dec 23 20:15:22 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and
    Jalad

    On 20/12/2024 17:29, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    Dungpile, when the male cattle had gorged on laxative grasses.

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    sometimes.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Dec 23 20:32:23 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5


    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    I always wonder why this is often listed as a "fan favorite".



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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Dec 23 20:32:24 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    In article <87y106vkew.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 24 05:02:29 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5


    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    D


    Without looking at a list?

    And no order

    Darmok

    The Royale

    Shades of Grey.

    The one with the Mayan Temple in space.

    The one Gates McMuffin directed where everybody devolves into a different species.

    The one where Gates McMuffin is having sex with a ghost

    Justice could’ve been saved if they had actually executed Wesley. A.k.a. “planet Malibu“

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 24 05:02:30 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    In article <87y106vkew.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    All fine choices.

    I don’t really remember the racist one very well so I left it out. I didn’t mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode
    to show that crusher is completely incompetent.



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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 24 15:23:58 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    All fine choices.

    I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.

    That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an
    old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
    and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym
    while wearing spiked oven mitts. Oh yeah, Yar is more than eager to fight until she discovers they pump the other woman full of steroids and rage- inducing drugs.

    I didn't mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a >pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode >to show that crusher is completely incompetent.

    I hated it because it was childish and stupid.

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  • From Wouter Valentijn@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Dec 25 03:48:11 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and
    Jalad

    Op 24-12-2024 om 05:23 schreef Ubiquitous:
    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    All fine choices.

    I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.

    That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an
    old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
    and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym
    while wearing spiked oven mitts. Oh yeah, Yar is more than eager to fight until she discovers they pump the other woman full of steroids and rage- inducing drugs.


    No, that was about soldiers is the post-atomic horror.


    I didn't mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a >> pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode >> to show that crusher is completely incompetent.

    I hated it because it was childish and stupid.

    --


    The original was much better.


    --
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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Dec 25 12:31:24 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    All fine choices.

    I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.

    That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
    and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym

    Oh, yeah. Thanks.


    while wearing spiked oven mitts. Oh yeah, Yar is more than eager to fight until she discovers they pump the other woman full of steroids and rage- inducing drugs.

    I didn't mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a >> pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode >> to show that crusher is completely incompetent.

    I hated it because it was childish and stupid.

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    Not a joke! Don't jump!






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  • From Daniel@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Dec 27 18:34:24 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> writes:

    In article <87y106vkew.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    --
    Not a joke! Don't jump!

    Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
    for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
    early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
    absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.

    Encounter at farpoint - the pilot

    Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
    wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
    the issue even though she had small pointies.

    The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
    light alien.

    Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
    enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
    course).

    Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
    resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
    reason.

    Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the enterprise.

    D


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  • From Daniel@3:633/280.2 to All on Fri Dec 27 22:04:09 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

    Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> writes:

    In article <87y106vkew.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    --
    Not a joke! Don't jump!

    Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
    for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG
    Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
    early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
    absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.

    Encounter at farpoint - the pilot

    Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
    wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
    the issue even though she had small pointies.

    The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
    light alien.

    Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
    enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
    course).

    Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago
    settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
    resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
    reason.

    Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the
    enterprise.

    D



    Even though your list has no overlap with mine, I agree with all your choices.

    I have an episode guide that I referenced for my post. If you have lynx,
    then go to:

    gopher://infinitelyremote.com/0/quux-gopher-mirror/wiretap.area.com/Library/Media/Trek/tng.epi

    Sorry, I meant to include the link but I was three beers to the wind by
    the time I hit 'send.'

    Daniel

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Sat Dec 28 05:39:03 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

    Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> writes:

    In article <87y106vkew.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>>>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    --
    Not a joke! Don't jump!

    Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
    for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG >>> Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
    early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
    absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.

    Encounter at farpoint - the pilot

    Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
    wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
    the issue even though she had small pointies.

    The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
    light alien.

    Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
    enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
    course).

    Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago >>> settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
    resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
    reason.

    Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the
    enterprise.

    D



    Even though your list has no overlap with mine, I agree with all your
    choices.

    I have an episode guide that I referenced for my post. If you have lynx,
    then go to:

    gopher://infinitelyremote.com/0/quux-gopher-mirror/wiretap.area.com/Library/Media/Trek/tng.epi

    Sorry, I meant to include the link but I was three beers to the wind by
    the time I hit 'send.'

    Daniel


    Hee hee

    I think the biggest problem with post TOS trek is limiting it to only a
    bottom five!

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  • From The Last Doctor@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Dec 23 20:15:00 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad


    On 20/12/2024 17:29, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    Dungpile, when the male cattle had gorged on laxative grasses.

    --
    There's no point in being grown up if you can't act a little childish
    sometimes.
    óR@


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  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 31 02:45:04 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and
    Jalad

    On 12/29/2024 12:16 AM, George Levens wrote:
    In article <vk4d44$3iqec$1@dont-email.me>, weberm@polaris.net wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
    their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.

    Or how they even told each other about the events they built their
    metaphors upon.

    --
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    dirty old man.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 31 03:38:31 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    hr.jakarta@dafam-vasaka.com wrote:
    In article <vk4d44$3iqec$1@dont-email.me>, weberm@polaris.net wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg >compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
    their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.

    That's my biggest complaint, plus the claim that real linguists were unable
    to figure it out for many years but picard did it within 24 hours.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 31 03:39:39 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. >>>>>>> How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    All fine choices.

    I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.

    That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an >> old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
    and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym

    Oh, yeah. Thanks.

    Heh.

    --
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  • From John@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 31 03:45:44 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    On 12/20/24 11:29, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    -
    Let's go Brandon!



    Rule #1 of all things TREK:

    Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.

    Only expect a modicum suspended disbelief.


    -J

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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 31 16:50:47 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    John <john@somewhere> wrote:
    On 12/20/24 11:29, Ubiquitous wrote:
    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    -
    Let's go Brandon!



    Rule #1 of all things TREK:

    Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.


    When did that start?


    Only expect a modicum suspended disbelief.


    -J




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  • From anim8rfsk@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Dec 31 16:50:48 2024
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 12/29/2024 12:16 AM, George Levens wrote:
    In article <vk4d44$3iqec$1@dont-email.me>, weberm@polaris.net wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
    compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
    their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.

    Or how they even told each other about the events they built their
    metaphors upon.


    Exactly. The only way this came to be is if they spoke a real language and
    then created their stupid metaphor language just to annoy other people.

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jan 1 12:40:28 2025
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok
    and Jalad

    anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 12/29/2024 12:16 AM, George Levens wrote:
    In article <vk4d44$3iqec$1@dont-email.me>, weberm@polaris.net wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How >>>> realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
    compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
    their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in
    metaphors.

    Or how they even told each other about the events they built their
    metaphors upon.

    Exactly. The only way this came to be is if they spoke a real language and >then created their stupid metaphor language just to annoy other people.

    :-)

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jan 1 12:41:38 2025
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    john@somewhere wrote:

    Rule #1 of all things TREK:
    Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.

    Only expect a modicum suspended disbelief.

    Oh, they passed "modicrum" long ago!

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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jan 1 13:16:20 2025
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    john@somewhere wrote:
    On 12/20/24 11:29, Ubiquitous wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty.
    How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    Rule #1 of all things TREK:

    Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.

    The premise of your argument is incorrect. Try again, please.

    -
    Let's go Brandon!


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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jan 1 14:13:29 2025
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    hr.jakarta@dafam-vasaka.com wrote:
    weberm@polaris.net wrote:

    Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
    realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

    https://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y?si=W-U8C-6ylfOpOLX5

    A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg >compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
    their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.

    I suspect "Wile E Coyotte, while trying to catch the Road Runner" wasn't
    very helpfull at all to survival.

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    have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.


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  • From Ubiquitous@3:633/280.2 to All on Thu Jan 2 20:30:49 2025
    Subject: Re: How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad

    In article <87frm9k29r.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> writes:
    In article <87y106vkew.fsf@rpi3>, me@sc1f1dan.com wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> writes:

    One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.

    List your bottom five.

    In no particular order:

    This one.

    Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

    The "racist" one with Yar.

    The one where Data tries to make a child.

    The remake of Naked Time.

    Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
    for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG >Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
    early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
    absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.

    Encounter at farpoint - the pilot

    Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
    wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
    the issue even though she had small pointies.

    The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
    light alien.

    I fucking hate "star-child" storoes!

    Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the >enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
    course).

    Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago >settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one >resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
    reason.

    The space-Irish didn't live on the same planet, but were left there for the clones to interbreed, but I have no doubt as soon as the Enterprise left,
    they were all put into medical comas and used for cloning material.

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