OT: Enterprise New thread.... - Page 11

Dracus · #**101** November 11th, 2001, 03:10 AM

Interesting how they are attempting to hash out all the un-answered questions.
The volcans sure have a lot of secrets don't they.

tesco samoa · #**102** November 14th, 2001, 03:33 PM

Great new parody at treknation.

My new signature should read. Only one spelling mistake per sentance,less this one.

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Dracus · #**103** November 15th, 2001, 03:35 PM

This latest one did have some things that I don't quite agree with.

Like the part where Archer tells the girl they are from another world. She was like "ok".
should she not have been a little more surpised at the lest.
Also, when they kissed the first time, while that was very risky should there have not been something about making sure that he did not contract virus, I mean they are aliens after all.
And the girl, didn't she seem just a little too easy???

Once again another pre to the P.M. provided by t'pol. It seems that alot of the fed rules were made up by non-humans. Wonder when they started following the P.M.?

geoschmo · #**104** November 15th, 2001, 03:57 PM

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Originally posted by Dracus:
This latest one did have some things that I don't quite agree with.

Like the part where Archer tells the girl they are from another world. She was like "ok".
should she not have been a little more surpised at the lest..

She was a scientist. Compared to the rest of her race she was probably more open to the possibility of life on other planets.

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Also, when they kissed the first time, while that was very risky should there have not been something about making sure that he did not contract virus, I mean they are aliens after all.
And the girl, didn't she seem just a little too easy???

Aren't all highly intelligent women pushovers for good looking mysterious guys? Something about being different from the run of the mill jerks she is used to dealing with. Even before she knew he was an alien, she knew he had a lot of secrets. Smart chicks dig that sort of thing.

Geoschmo

Coal · #**105** November 15th, 2001, 04:45 PM

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Also, when they kissed the first time, while that was very risky should there have not been something about making sure that he did not contract virus, I mean they are aliens after all.

The real life scientific reason for not worrying about viruses is that the viruses can't hurt humans. The virus would not have the genetic design to infect us. It would get in our system, look around and say, quite frankly, 'WTF?'. Unless humans have lived in the same area as the virus for a sufficient amount of time, the virus won't know how to infect us. The time needed would depend on how the virus is designed before human contact, and how close, biologically, humans are to the creatures the virus normally infects.

And even if there were a virus that could get into their systems, they got the decon and sick bay on the ship, and those would've gotten them cured pretty quick (like they always do).

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Alpha Kodiak · #**106** November 15th, 2001, 06:08 PM

I'm curious about their translator technology. While the show has been demonstrating that most of their tech is primitive compared to TOS and later, the fact that the captain could talk to a native in their own language real time, including lip synchronization, is just accepted. I could understand an alien race that is technologically advanced understanding the concept of a translator and accepting little details like the lips not matching the words, but a primitive person, thinking that they were speaking to one of their own race, would be confused.

Mind you, I liked the episode, but I just wish they had more problems dealing with language in that situation. At least the translator broke down at one point, but it still didn't explain how they could pull off the translator trick at all.

Dracus · #**107** November 15th, 2001, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
I'm curious about their translator technology. While the show has been demonstrating that most of their tech is primitive compared to TOS and later, the fact that the captain could talk to a native in their own language real time, including lip synchronization, is just accepted. I could understand an alien race that is technologically advanced understanding the concept of a translator and accepting little details like the lips not matching the words, but a primitive person, thinking that they were speaking to one of their own race, would be confused.

I just wish they had more problems dealing with language in that situation. At least the translator broke down at one point, but it still didn't explain how they could pull off the translator trick at all.

Yes this one confuses me also. I was expecting someone to say "hey why is your voice coming out of your pants." Still don't understand how they hear the translation either. In the NTG and DS9 they did talk about having one implanted their head but I still do not quite understand how others would understand them without having one themselves. I can see the it telling the holder what the other person is saying, but I don't see it working in reverse and speaking for the holder.

geoschmo · #**108** November 15th, 2001, 06:59 PM

Maybe it's a nueral interface between your brain and the muscles controlling your vocal chords and mouth. You think a word in your native laguage, and it's gets translated before you actually speak it. The translator takes over and makes your mouth move in the correct fashion. The listener cannot tell a difference, because from their perspective their is no difference.

Of course this would not account for differences in biology. An alien species could have vocal chords that are capable of tomes that human one's are not. I guess then the implant could actually generate some tones and the facial movements will just be for show.

Of course it could be that all the actors at Paramount speak english.

Geoschmo

tesco samoa · #**109** November 15th, 2001, 07:27 PM

That is how they worked in DS9.

They should just use the BABEL fish method from Hitchhikers. Less confusing.

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tesco samoa · #**110** November 15th, 2001, 07:28 PM

That is how they worked in DS9.

They should just use the BABEL fish method from Hitchhikers. Less confusing.

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