Do you think there are Jaffa farmers? Or are there human slaves on Chulak (and other Jaffa planets)? Or is their food imported?

Maybe they have replicators? But wouldn't they get them confused with the Replicators? Now I'm confused.

Do you think there are Jaffa farmers? Or are there human slaves on Chulak (and other Jaffa planets)? Or is their food imported?

I've always assumed that farming is a lot of what humans are doing on goa'uld-dominated worlds, since there's absolutely no evidence of Jaffa doing so. Canonically human slaves either traipse around with goa'uld in skimpy outfits or mine ("I dreamed about mining. Naked.") but that's clearly silly, and the goa'uld and Jaffa must get their food from somewhere.

(HEAD GUY: We've dedicated our lives to peaceful contemplation. ME, out loud: Well, it doesn't seem to have helped much!)

Ah, their whole problem was selecting their ruling class out of cast members from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Katie! You're a genius! They eat rocks! (Eats, Rocks, and Leaves?)

Meanwhile, on Enterprise, their resident linguist can pretty much translate anything! Perfectly! Why? Because the plot requires it.

She had trouble in the pilot, right? That being the only episode I ever watched? But then learned the true meaning of Christmas to Believe in Herself and thereafter never made a mistake ever?

It's one of those things where it's not consistent. If they want it to be an issue, it's an issue. If, on the other hand, she needs to translate whale song? Just give her a couple of days.

It's almost kind of interesting, watching them desperately try to make Enterprise darker and darker.

Pretty freaking close.

If they tried to get me to buy she could learn a new human language in under a week, who'd expect me to buy it? Yet ... she crosses species with a wink and a smile.

HATE the language crap. Just hate it.

HATE the language crap. Just hate it.

You know, that'd be the best use of a time machine. Strategic sabotage of the Tower of Babel.

It may still be the blush of new love talking, but I dig the translator microbes concept from Farscape. I can imagine microbes (the French one wears a little beret and smokes, but he doesn't get a lot of play in that part of the 'verse, so he mostly just sits around looking bored and jaded, which works for him [for shame with the stereotyping, I know]), and everyone/thing/being seems to know about and use them in that part of the universe. It works very neatly for me.

The microbes fail for me because they still use alien words for which there seems to be a direct English equivalent (Trek does this too, all the freaking time). Also, by the time they got to Earth and had Aeryn and Grammy speaking English, it all fell to shreds for me.