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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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Universal Translator: Sometimes working instantly, sometimes not at all?

[This paragraph is all TVTropes links] So, put simply and out-of-universe-ly, this is just a kind of Applied Phlebotinum called Translator Microbes (from Farscape), which is also known as Universal Tr …
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If there are universal translators, why are some words/phrases not translated?

From http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Universal_translator (Which got it from TOS 2x02: Metamorphosis) Responding to Zefram Cochrane's question about the theory of operation, Kirk explained that …
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