'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
This is more confusing than I thought.
Oui oui.
In some way, there's got to be some kind of give and take between talker and listener. Maybe the microbes work telepathically with each other on the subconscious level. I'll call it the Hagen Exchange. How else would the microbes be able to traslate a new language like, English?
How else would the microbes be able to traslate a new language like, English?
See why I hate them?
Bring back the Babel Fish.
I knew they looked like DeLuises! Thank you.
I think of the DeLuise clan as Dom's Revenge for all the Hollywood types that pegged him as a one-note sidekick.
Bring back the Babel Fish.
Yeh, or take the Simpson's route with Kodo and Kang.
"...by an amazing coincidence, both languages are exactly the same."
The only Trek ep I watched before DS9 was the one where Joan Collins was not a bitch and Kirk had to let her die to prevent Hitler from winning the war.
"City of the Edge of Forever," written by Harlan Ellison.
Poor Joan Collins. Getting hit by a mack truck would put me in a bad mood too.
I like the microbe idea better than anything else that's been proposed for translation. Because it actually involves the speaker and listener's brain in the whole process, rather than being something mechanical/electronic, and while we all can reasonably guess the limits of mechanical things and electronic things, the brain is like a Get Out Of Plot Hole Free card. Like, we can theorize ideas like what Thomash said above, and it comes within shouting distance of sense. If you've got really stentorian lungs.
The real problem with microbes is that (a) you have to get around the whole chicken-egg question of language acquisition in childhood, and (b) the people on Farscape never took a science class in their lives.
So, did the Mutant X and Andromeda convo result from this news? Because I must have skipped it while I was skimming.
did the Mutant X and Andromeda convo result from this news?
No, although it was mentioned therein.
Yeah, when she took the wig off? And she gathered the liquid Odo onto her skirt? I was all moved and stuff.
That's a great storyline. Lwaxana could easily be kind of shrill and one-note, but that whole relationship between her and Odo was so great.
And then I caught the last half hour of "Duet" yesterday. Harris Yulin doesn't leave one piece of scenery unchewed, but I don't care. And last week was the episode where Kira was sent to one of the moons to relocate Bajoran settlers, and Jake and Nog ended up with a hundred gross of self-sealing stembolts.
t flush with DS9 nostalgia