Star Trek geekery

[ambush_bug]

8:20 PM 10/13/05 · Boldly going where few geeks would even think of going without underwear!

• Why is it the universal translator doesn't prevent people from cursing or praying in their actual language, from the audience's perspective anyway?
• If the shields are up a starship cannot use their transporter to beam anyone out of or into the ship. However

Comments

[ghostofmuir]

Perhaps the program is clever enough to ken that nae one's trying to communicate with a different species at those points. ::shrug::
Perhaps the shields dinna cover the exact spot the phasers fire from.

Well, if that's nae what they've got in at least half of those bloody cargo bays, I'd like to know what's in all those boxes!

[ambush_bug]

Interesting...interesting.

Now try saying that without your mouth full of candy.

[liveavatar]

I'll just say that even though they don't eject waste into space, there is no garbage disposal problem in the Star Trek universe.

[alec_holland]

Well. Look what... the cat dragged in.

[ambush_bug]

Wow...walking mulch.

[typeo_support]

For the translator, it might not know those words--I mean, who wants to teach a computer how to swear?--or it might be that the words really do get translated, and they just don't translate them in the shows. Y'know, like how there's swearing in movies, and then when they put 'em on TV, they dub stuff. Like Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where the sister says "go fuck yourself" to Charlie Sheen, and they dubbed it for TV as "control yourself." Or the phrases might just not have a translatable concept

[extraspclagent]

((On Voyager there were little packets of blue gel, but that's not raw matter for the replicators-- it's an organic computer part. They're installed all over the ship.))
((DEAR GOD I AM THE GEEKIEST FANGIRL EVAR. *weeps*))

[typeo_support]

((Were they organic computer components? Ah, well, your trekkiness trumps mine. I haven't seen that show in years.))

[victordoom]

((It was an experimental organic computer component, yes. They even got 'Sick' once. and they ahd to superheat the ship to give it a 'fever' to kill it off. It was a neural network basically. Worked faster and more efficently I believe. At least more effeiciantly.))

[mutemusician]

(( OOC: My high school physics teacher had us read the book "The Physics of Star Trek." Go pick it up, it take the 10 biggest techs of the Star Trek universe and disects them to show how they don't work. It's really interesting, I think you'd like it.))

[ambush_bug]

((Hey, no bringing literature into this!))