From: The True Melissa <thetruemelissa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,rec.arts.startrek.fandom,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.sf.tv,can.arts.sf
Subject: Re: AI/LLM reviews of STNG - Darmok
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 11:13:10 -0700
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Verily, in article <762320817.779042561.502977.anim8rfsk-
cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this
message:
> They were as annoying as the pig nose moron aliens.
I can't hate the pig-nosed morons when one was so hilarious on Lower
Decks. They were kind of annoying in the original, though.
> You couldn?t possibly develop a language like that naturally. You?d
have
> to start with a real language and then change it just to be annoying.
I'm not so sure about "couldn't possibly." They would need to learn the
stories somehow, but (according to the fan wiki) the official position
is that they *mostly* speak in metaphor. Children presumably learn some
basics in plainer language, which really should have been tried with
Picard, but a highly metaphorical species might not have thought of it.
Such a high and persistent level of metaphorical abstraction would be
fascinating. Too bad the TNG-era Enterprise didn't seem to have a
communications officer.
--
Trustworthy words are not pretty;
Pretty words are not trustworthy.
-Lao-Tzu spoke those pretty words.