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The Universal Translator is a device used in Star Trek to translate all languages. Rather than being a store of languages, it analyses thought patterns to translate languages.
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Does the Universal Translator correctly translate alien names?
As a rule, in the real world, we use standardised names for people or places, rather than translating them into whatever our own language happens to be. Oftentimes, we probably don't know what a forei …
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In Star Trek, are the humans actually all speaking English?
Jerry Sohl, one of the early writers on Star Trek: The Original Series, explained that the Enterprise crew members all speak English.
We were originally going to have [each crew member] carry a langu …
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In "Pen Pals", how did Data understand Sarjenka's transmission?
DATA: Computer, identify please.
COMPUTER: Sensors indicate low-level rf waves.
DATA: Is there a pattern?
COMPUTER: Affirmative.
DATA: Naturally occurring?
COMPUTER: Negative.
DATA: Key universal tra …
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Short story where a translation box is used to avert a war between two alien species
Sounds like The Translator by Kim Stanley Robinson, originally published in the Universe 1 anthology in 1990.
Owen Rumford, a man living in a small town on the planet Rannoch, uses a translation box …
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