OT: BSG Series

[Atrocities]

Makinus said:
i desisted from watching SG1 when, in the first episode from the first season (not the pilot), when they find a world with people that lives like the Mongols they instantly are able to talk with the first person that they meet, in modern-day english, and they are not using any kind of translator or something...

Now, a people that were separated from eartg since the time of the Gengis Khan (that spoke a very different language) are speaking modern-day english? I simply could not stand the illogicity and simply don´t watched any othe episode of the series...

Tis the problem with all sci-fi shows except Farscape where they made it clear that it was nano-tec that allowed them to understand and speak other Languages.

[Randallw]

Atrocities said:

Tis the problem with all sci-fi shows except Farscape where they made it clear that it was nano-tec that allowed them to understand and speak other Languages.

AS far as I know they only covered the translation problem once in ST. In DS9 Quark and his brother and nephew end up in 1949 new mexico (some place called Roswell I think ). He wonders why his translation implant doesn't work. His brother says it would only happen if there were large amounts of radiation in an atmosphere, but who would be stupid enough to explode nuclear weapons in an atmosphere .
In one episode of DS9 they are being attacked by Klingons. There is a conversation with them and then the Gowron (who must be speaking his language all along) says something in Klingon which Worf has to translate. It is assumed Gowron pressed the "Do not translate this sentence" button.