The audience
The audience needs to be able to get a handle on it. They wanted to tell a story about a species who the federation struggled to communicate with, but they can't make them so cryptic that the audience have no hope of following along with the quest to understand.
As it turns out, the mode of communication ended up mirrored in popular culture so that it now seems even more blindingly obvious to anyone who grew up with the internet.
The audience
The audience needs to be able to get a handle on it. They wanted to tell a story about a species who the federation struggled to communicate with, but they can't make them so cryptic that the audience have no hope of following along with the quest to understand.
As it turns out, the mode of communication ended up mirrored in popular culture so that it now seems even more blindingly obvious to anyone who grew up with the internet.
The audience
The audience needs to be able to get a handle on it. They wanted to tell a story about a species who the federation struggled to communicate with, but they can't make them so cryptic that the audience have no hope of following along with the quest to understand.
As it turns out, the mode of communication ended up mirrored in popular culture so that it now seems even more blindingly obvious to anyone who grew up with the internet.
The audience
The audience needs to be able to get a handle on it. They wanted to tell a story about a species who the federation struggled to communicate with, but they can't make them so cryptic that the audience have no hope of following along with the quest to understand.
As it turns out, the mode of communication ended up mirrored in popular culture so that it now seems even more blindingly obvious to anyone who grew up with the internet.
