Timeline for Why did the Federation struggle so hard to understand the Tamarians?
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| Aug 5, 2022 at 13:38 | comment | added | NKCampbell | @spacetyper - the Federation may have had interest in trying to figure it out, but without a Tamarian equally as invested, it would have been extremely difficult. Data understands immediately that they are referencing proper names and places, but without any context (even when he and Troi learn the mytho-poetic history of the terms, they still lack much of the needed context that only Picard is receiving via first hand interaction w/ Dathon). | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 13:09 | comment | added | Philipp | +1. The fact that they met only 7 times in 100 years, and the wording ("Encounter", "Without incident") sound like these were more or less random occurrences, without the Federation displaying any interest in establishing real communications. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 2:22 | comment | added | spacetyper | This answer seems most plausible to me--but is there reference to the fact that that no one had ever tried? After all--there have to be cryptologists and linguists in the Federation and it seems surprising they wouldn't have taken the same crack as Data to try and make sense what they could. | |
| Aug 5, 2022 at 1:16 | history | edited | NKCampbell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2022 at 13:29 | history | answered | NKCampbell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |