Lost in Translation—Communication with Aliens in Star Trek
Index of "Lost in Translation" Articles Communication with Aliens in Star Trek (this page) Verbal Pattern Analysis Scanning Brain Activity Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country "The Universal Translator Would Be Recognized" Men, Ferengi, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Lobes Um . . . Disfluencies and Translation There Be Whales Here ( Star Trek IV ) They Sure Don't Sound Like Son'a to Me ( Star Trek: Insurrection ) Horta Hears a Who ("The Devil in the Dark") Star Trek XI Also see an older post about translation in Star Trek : Musings about “Nemesis”—Part 1 of 2 (The Voyager Episode, Not the Movie) The Universal Translator is a vital piece of technology in Star Trek . Without the Universal Translator we would probably never get to the stories themselves. In his book, Aliens and Alien Societies , Stanley Schmidt writes: Any time two independently evolved species come into contact, [a writer] must decide how, if at all, they’re going to learn to talk to...