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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TenForward, when the memes dropped.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or Data just opens his mouth and makes sounds like the digital noise you heard on the phone line when a fax was coming through or someone was using a dialup internet connection

https://youtu.be/gsNaR6FRuO0

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate when Data breaks like that. If more than two people knew where his reset switch was it wouldn't be such a problem. Last away mission we had to deal with him intermittently doing this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmGKVmjPUC4

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Breaks? That's just him doing foreplay.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reminds me of that time Troi is discussing language in the ready-room with the captain, and suddenly uses some non-english word(s) for a cup... it always makes me think: why wouldn't the universal translator just translate those words too?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Maybe the universal translator understands context and the intended meaning. The intended meaning was non-english so translating wouldn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is a good Daystrom question: Did Dr. Soong speak Terran?

In the event the universal translator broke, Data would have to interpret for everyone.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

A protocol android?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Data can speak and understand every language, so he definitely wouldn't be beeping and booping.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And now this makes me wonder about T-V distinction in Starfleet. I'm sure there are regulations for that and Picard being the captain, kind of gives him the "right" to tutoyer everyone on the ship while still needing to vouvoyer admirals.

Weirdly my native language is French but I have always only seen Star Trek in English so I don't know how they dub it. Somehow I would have thought that everyone would be formal, polite and use vous, but maybe the captain can say tu to other people. Or he's very friendly with Riker.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My theory is that France got it bad during WW3, and many of the survivors relocated to the UK until the fallout could be cleaned up, which is why Jean-Luc Picard sounds like that.

The real reason is much funnier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's england's revenge for the norman conquest. The normans gave the english a whole bunch of new words and weird pronunciations. The brits just figured turnabout is fair play.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm German. Everyone on board the enterprise Siezes each other, except for romantic partners and Q.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I either know or am in the process of learning every language in this meme, including the title, LOL.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You speak Droid? Are you a jedi?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I'm a software developer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt Data is speaking Java.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Likely assembly then huh?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

what languages?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Beep bip boop bap bap bap!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Excuse me. Troi is Riker's beard. I thought that was canon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Discovery has that episode