We also didn't need subtitles to understand any Klingons, like the ones from "Heart of Glory".
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We also didn't need subtitles to understand any Klingons, like the ones from "Heart of Glory".
Or in TUC-they just moved to a universal translator.
Which is the more immersive experience will depend on the person. For me, give me subtitles and Klingonese.
I believe they call that “damning by faint praise”?
Maybe in fifteen or twenty years, I'll appreciate Discovery more. In between yelling at kids to get off of my lawn.
Irrelevant, since the Klingons not raised by humans were also understandable without subtitles.
Well, I will admit that the theme music isn't so bad. It's what comes between the opening and closing themes that's crap. Including the visuals that accompany the music. I'm not a fan of yellow and red.How bad will trek be in 20 years to make Discovery passable?
But my favorite theme music of all the spinoffs remains that of Voyager.
I have my doubts, though, that anything can be bad enough to make Discovery passable.
As demonstrated by a universal translator in TUC
It's been awhile since I saw the later Voyager episodes... but I don't remember subtitles on the screen whenever B'Elanna spoke Klingon.
The Klingon captain in TMP needed subtitles or the universal translator. 
Dumb question time-are subtitles that bad?The Klingon captain in TMP needed subtitles or the universal translator.
I don't think so. In foreign films, you get to hear the actors'/original voices instead of someone else redubbing their lines (which is almost always the case), not to mention the original/intended language. In sci-fi with subtitles for extraterrestrials, they are often going for the same vibe one gets while watching a foreign film or playing off that vibe or against it, to emphasize the alien-ness. Like many techniques, it can be overused, misused, ineffectively used. and so forth. But as a rule, is it bad? I would say, "no."
I personally prefer the Klingons speaking Klingon with title exactly because it emphasizes their alien-ness.
I'm not a fan of subtitles. There is exactly one movie I've seen when I didn't mind them: Raise the Red Lantern. The subtitles were necessary because I don't understand Mandarin (or Cantonese; not sure which language the actors were speaking). But the subtitles weren't in an obnoxious-looking font, and it's not like the viewer is so busy trying to read the subtitles that they don't notice what's actually going on. And the actors' voices aren't ear-hurting or veeerrrrryyyy.... sssssllllloooowwww..... ssssppppeeeaakkkkkkeeeeerrrrrsssssss.
I'm not a fan of subtitles. There is exactly one movie I've seen when I didn't mind them: Raise the Red Lantern. The subtitles were necessary because I don't understand Mandarin (or Cantonese; not sure which language the actors were speaking). But the subtitles weren't in an obnoxious-looking font, and it's not like the viewer is so busy trying to read the subtitles that they don't notice what's actually going on. And the actors' voices aren't ear-hurting or veeerrrrryyyy.... sssssllllloooowwww..... ssssppppeeeaakkkkkkeeeeerrrrrsssssss.
Is that the sequel where Khan comes back as a ghost?
Who you gonna call?
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