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O'Neill: We'll cross that bridge when we get there. Bra'tac: No. The bridge is too well guarded.

Someone may have already pointed this out, but about the 'intermodal' containers that YT-1300 can supposedly push... (as seen at 25:30) In train heist scene of the Han Solo movie ("conveyex transport" heist), you see freight cars that look either the same or nearly the same as the "containers" shown in the video. The train loco and cars 'clamped' the rail from top and bottom just like in the image. So, when you haul those 'intermodal' freight cars with YT freighter ships, I guess you basically pick up the rail they are on? Or maybe you connect a special rail attachment to the ship and run the freight cars onto it. Or something. If the YT-1300 manual book is canon, you have some amount of intermodality (modability?) there. ...Looking at the train locomotive from Han Solo movie gave me another question, though. What are you gonna shoot with the big cannons on the bottom locomotive? Those things do not look like they are on a rotating turret... Even with some strange design elements, however, I'm very happy to get almost any form of logistics vehicles in Star Wars, and especially of the Empire, and we even got two (another one being AT-Hauler, basically sky crane I guess)... and doubly so that they made lego sets of them both. You don't get imperial, non-combat things-mover very often, so I'll take what I can get.

OH MY GOD, the Cruise Missile Trooper, I completely forgot about this toy! I must've had at least two of them. I totally forgot it existed. Seriously, where did this thing even come from? It sure didn't appear in the films.

Cerritos proud!!!

I dont remembr the exact episodes, but i remembered that several times during first contact the comms officer was told to transmit thier translation matrix. So id assume that contains not just individual words, but also turns of phrase and the like so the computer can tell the differance. I also like the answer to why Picard can swear in Klingon or french is because he knows the password to the UT parental lockouts.

How did the Babel fish translate what Marvin was saying again? I don't recall the books or the radio dramas, or the Tv show or the movie's explanation for it.

Sometimes there are blunt ways of communicating where it sometimes involved weapons, or a style of gunboat diplomacy and that particular kind of diplomacy has remained unchanged even in Star Trek.

And then there are women, who say and mean completely different things. Such as all time classics as: "Do you want to open the window?" meaning "Open the fucking window." "Are you hungry?" meaning "I want pizza specifically, right now." "Whatever, do what you want. I don't care." meaning "I dare you to do what you want." And "'I'm fine." meaning "I am not fine at all."

My Arakis! My desert desert!

Wait for it, in England we actually have a hill hill hill hill.

Dock Master, you should do a video on the HELLDIVERS 2 ships. I would love to hear your thoughts on the Destroyers, Pelicans, Eagles strike craft, and oOOOH YEAH can’t forget the indomitable HELL PODS. 😂 Anyway just a thought. 👍

I should have seen it coming, but didn't. I laughed out loud when you brought up the babel fish. At least it puts this whole "God" debate to rest finally.

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Unfortunately when you depart to far from the “desert” desert, “river” river and “lake” lake you can end up with a Lake Char­gogg­a­gogg­man­chaugg­a­gogg­chau­bun­a­gung­a­maugg, supposedly it translates to “You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle".

Once more with feeling?? That explains the rabbit reference....because "Bunnies, bunnies it MUST BE BUNNIES....or maybe midgets?" :) My fav episode! Haze grey Dockmaster!!

And what's Starfleet gonna do when OTHER space powers, like the Klingons and the Romanulans and Orions, etc go to make contact with the 'lesser species'? Gonna start wars with the other guys if they wanna do anything with those planets? Also, I BET some hostile, malevolent being infiltrated early star fleet during its infancy. We have seen star fleet get infiltrated a few times.

In TOS, the Enterprise crew interacted with people who did not even have the WHEEL.

Post scarcity society: Henry Kissinger's nightmare come true, and Bill Gates.

In Star Wars, the Republic did not bother to help worlds like Tattooine, not bother to destroy slavery.....look how GREAT that went for Anakin.

IF Doctor Who was in the same universe as Star Trek, I could see Star Fleet having their equivalent of wanted posters and you'd see "Wanted: dead or alive, star fleet enemy #1" with Tom Baker's picture on it.

In Star Trek Online, the Iconians had a prime directive, and all the 'lesser races' teamed together and blasted the Iconians into near extinction. IF the federation falls, it will probably involve the prime directive biting em on their ass.

Not as confusing as "CAC card."

The only way I can see a mechanical universal translator working, or something like it, is if you don't have aliens at all, and have the loads and loads of species done thru trans-humanisum, as is seen the novel further beyond the threshold

I absolutely love that a shortcut developed for television (so that writers didn't have to create a whole new language so often or viewers didn't have to read subtitles....we are sometimes a lazy species, which isn't necessarily always a bad thing, there's a small difference between being lazy and efficient) has led to awesome episodes like "Shaka, When the Walls Fell" and, well, this one. Well done!

Welcome to Burghville Town Montana! and about Avon, I know a place in Wales (near Newport) where you actually have two river Avons, one a tributary of the other.

funny thing... "Yama" whilst it means "mountain" does not mean "Mount"... the phonetic for that would be "San"... so no sane Japanese would EVER say Fujiyama... that would be Fujisan... saying Fujiyama is sort of saying Kentucky Fried Hen... just weird always wondered why and how it could happen that this became the international name.

in my understanding, most universal translators are meant to use neuro-signals rather than what comes out of your mouth... that is, they will try to find certain elements of Syntaxes in ones communications on a stage before it becomes linguistically encoded... so it tries to read "neuro-waves" or whatever... at least, that's the theory

The hour of payment passed! Dockmaster, his heuristics enraged! The holy cubifier hums. The Dockmaster at rest.

Heh, I just realised that the channel logo looks a cow with horns if you rotate it 180 degrees.

19:38 Thinking about Red hammer

Most context is pretext, and therefore never survives post text. Chain Mail. Mae'n annoeth gwybod gwir gynnwys fy meddwl.

So yes there is idioms, but you can also translate them. Esp. if you already have a "universal" language, even if it's only "spoken" by the Translators (The translation ML)

2 comments: 1. Why would a universal translator have to be squishy? You were able to convey all of that just fine. 2. I honestly have heard the “pink elephant” example so much I actually donʼt think of a pink elephant when itʼs brought up, any more than I think of literal running with “given the runaround”. It has become an idiom itself.

After going up in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, the irony of this topic is not lost on me.

Temba, his arms wide!

So, every planet is Earth?

13:51 I might be a linguistic elitist with that comment, but, as someone residing in Japan and with a degree in Japanese, the word "富士山" (aka Mt Mt Fuji) isn't read as "Fujiyama", but as "Fujisan". That's because the kanji for mountain (山) had a few different readings, classified into 2 categories: - Kanji by itself : Yama - Kanji with other kanjis: San or Sen. This is the case for most Kanjis, and the rule applies I the great majority of the time (exceptions exist). So, because it is a combo of 3 Kanjis, it has to be "Fujisan" and not "Fujiyama". If you ever see Fujiyama written anywhere, it is either because the text is very old and the English writers at the time didn't have a proper grasp of the Japanese Language, or whoever wrote it isn't really qualified in the language... Or someone wanted to make their sushi shop sound very Japanese but didn't get an actual native to check it.

One would seriously expect the Tartar Pits to be further east than California.

I love how he doesn't notice the rabbit thing = to be stood up, but that also makes exactly zero sense. You - "Yeah, she stood me up" Alien - "Did you fall down?"

How appropriate you bring up the Tamarians, given that I saw someone today write that understanding the sentence "The cat lawyer milkshake ducked" made them realize that we (or at least those of us who are terminally online) are Tamarians.

Granny Weatherwax from Terry Pratchett's Diskworld series had the perfect way to not think of a pink elephant. She didn't know what an elephant looked like. Also, "Once More With Feeling" ?? I would never have pegged you for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan... Or is it Jerry Lee Lewis?? Your 'song' is always special

Amusingly and fitting the dock master's comments - the Brown Bear (or Bruin Bear) is Bear Bear, or properly Ursus Arctos Arctos, or Bear Bear Bear, and the Grizzly Bear (Ursus Arctos Horribilis) is Horrible Bear Bear. Amusingly, the Polar Bear, which lives in the Arctic, doesn't have Arctos in its name... it is Ursus Maritimus - Ocean Bear. Heh.

Dock Master, you're talking to the inhabitants of a world who named their planet after dirt...

PIZZA PIE? - come on have a slice.

4:20 in regards to translation systems with google translate. One can easily add the mostly likely idoms/metephors etc as an extension l. Similer to when you look for word definitions gives you multiple categories of information

Reminds me of the thunder screech. 9000 sonic booms a minute from the prop

On the gripping hand, translation tools are going to dominate languages to the point that their bad translations will become factual/official. To be clear: Language itself will shift as a result of translation tools.

🎶Pico and Sepulveda Pico and Sepulveda 🎶

I may be wrong but you could apply the term desert to a large stretch of an ocean with no life in it, not that I'd imagine there'd not be many of those.

Rig the algorithm!