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Subject: Re: AI/LLM reviews of STNG - Darmok
From: anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 10:14:37 -0700
The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:
> Verily, in article <932307215.779031248.136346.anim8rfsk-
> cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this
> message:
>> Unwatchable garbage. Offensively bad. The worst episode not helmed by or
>> featuring Gates McMuffin except for maybe the one with the space Mayans.
>
By the way, I posted that before reading what you watched last night.
>
> I don't agree. The premise could have used more exploration, but it was
> nice to see some aliens who were actually *different,* for a bit of
> actual SF in the SF show.
They were as annoying as the pig nose moron aliens.
You couldnât possibly develop a language like that naturally. Youâd have
to start with a real language and then change it just to be annoying.
>
> What they should have done is developed this more. Tamarians are highly
> narrative, apparently more so than the rest of us, and what does this
> mean? There are fascinating implications for sociology, mental health,
> and potentially even religion. There's also a burning question of how
> anyone learns the stories in the first place. All of this stuff could
> have been developed in side stories, as other alien cultures have been.
>
> Lower Decks has a Tamarian crew member, Kayshon, who has learned to
> speak the way everyone else does but sometimes reverts to his natural
> mode. He's a pretty good character, so I'm not sorry they're in the
> Federation.
>
>
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