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I never go into the Star Trek threads because I don't qualify as an Official Star Trek Nerd TM (meant in the nicest way). I have seen most of the OS, maybe all of it, same for TNG, and many, but not all, episodes of Voyager and DS9. My wife is the OSTN in the family. (Hey, let's play Acronyms!) I know the stories and everything, but I haven't seen them so many times or analyzed them to the point ...

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I am definitely not an OSTN but an obvious (to me at least) answer occurs to me. Why would the Klingons (or any other species) use the translator when speaking among themselves?

Of the approximately one billion inconsistancies in the various incarnations of Star Trek, I find this to be the most benign. Data's on-again/off-again use of contractions is far more irritating.

I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that the Universal Translator was always on. So in order not to break the fourth wall, everybody is heard in one language - in the viewer's case, English. Therefore, when Klingons, say Worf and Gowron are conversing in English, but they lapse into Klingon, why is it not translated? My wife says there's a scene in the Klingon restaurant on the ...

DS9, as a series, wanted to play up the alien feel, so they have fewer humans and more scenes in alien language.

Although I am no expert in Treknichal matters, it seems obvious to me that if the Universal Translator can be safely relied upon to accurately translate one language to another, then it must incorporate a sophisticated mechanism for judging the context, emotive quality, and relative significance of terms. In fact, it must be at least as expert in such matters as a highly educated native speaker ...

Quote: Originally Posted by fishbicycle I never go into the Star Trek threads because I don't qualify as an Official Star Trek Nerd TM (meant in the nicest way). I have seen most of the OS, maybe all of it, same for TNG, and many, but not all, episodes of Voyager and DS9. My wife is the OSTN in the family. (Hey, let's play Acronyms!) I know the stories and everything, but I haven't seen them so...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers Of the approximately one billion inconsistancies in the various incarnations of Star Trek, I find this to be the most benign. Data's on-again/off-again use of contractions is far more irritating. I'll fanwank that one too, and not just to say, "oh, DATA never used contractions; sometimes Brent Spiner merely misspoke the transcript of the logs used to ...