OT: Enterprise New thread....

Dracus · #1 November 15th, 2001, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
I'm curious about their translator technology. While the show has been demonstrating that most of their tech is primitive compared to TOS and later, the fact that the captain could talk to a native in their own language real time, including lip synchronization, is just accepted. I could understand an alien race that is technologically advanced understanding the concept of a translator and accepting little details like the lips not matching the words, but a primitive person, thinking that they were speaking to one of their own race, would be confused.

I just wish they had more problems dealing with language in that situation. At least the translator broke down at one point, but it still didn't explain how they could pull off the translator trick at all.

Yes this one confuses me also. I was expecting someone to say "hey why is your voice coming out of your pants." Still don't understand how they hear the translation either. In the NTG and DS9 they did talk about having one implanted their head but I still do not quite understand how others would understand them without having one themselves. I can see the it telling the holder what the other person is saying, but I don't see it working in reverse and speaking for the holder.

geoschmo · #2 November 15th, 2001, 06:59 PM

Maybe it's a nueral interface between your brain and the muscles controlling your vocal chords and mouth. You think a word in your native laguage, and it's gets translated before you actually speak it. The translator takes over and makes your mouth move in the correct fashion. The listener cannot tell a difference, because from their perspective their is no difference.

Of course this would not account for differences in biology. An alien species could have vocal chords that are capable of tomes that human one's are not. I guess then the implant could actually generate some tones and the facial movements will just be for show.

Of course it could be that all the actors at Paramount speak english.

Geoschmo

tesco samoa · #3 November 15th, 2001, 07:27 PM

That is how they worked in DS9.

They should just use the BABEL fish method from Hitchhikers. Less confusing.

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tesco samoa · #4 November 15th, 2001, 07:28 PM

That is how they worked in DS9.

They should just use the BABEL fish method from Hitchhikers. Less confusing.

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tesco samoa · #5 November 15th, 2001, 07:31 PM

I wish Toronto had the street cleaning system that town had. Man was that the cleanest pre-industrial port town you ever did see? Humdinger it was.

Fyron · #6 December 4th, 2001, 03:43 AM

Wow! There haven't been any Posts about Enterprise here in the Last few weeks!

Captain Kwok · #7 December 4th, 2001, 03:51 PM

Aargh - I was really getting into the new series and now it's rerun time for the next month or so...

I think they're doing a fine job with the show and it should be only a matter of time before Atrocities releases an enterprise ship set...