I'm not sure I'd describe it that way. It established that Vulcan and Romulan are as similar to each other as Spanish from Mexico and Spain.
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I'm not sure I'd describe it that way. It established that Vulcan and Romulan are as similar to each other as Spanish from Mexico and Spain.
I do not think so, the communications officer did not know the Romulan dialect, the movie implied he knew Vulcan. Uhura spoke both, so she took over his post. If the languages were that close Uhura would not have gotten the job. If a non English speaker learns American English, she will have not problem understanding British English, apart from a few colloquial words and phrases.
The differences between any of those dialects are not that great, with a minor exception for Argentina which has Rioplatanese Spanish, which could still be understood by other spanish speakers, and Lunfardo but that is more like slang.
I'm confused? What established that Vulcan and Romulan are as similar as Spanish Spanish and Mexican Spanish? And how did it establish that?
It was established in Star Trek 2009 as being similar enough that one communications officer could not distinguish between the two.
It requires a certain amount of ego to put your work out there.
yes, that's exactly the point.
This is a very clear statement and I'm not sure why people are having trouble wrapping their brains around it.
So he did not speak Vulcan either? If the two languages are that similar, why did they need Uhura?
Probably not enough to provide the information Pike needed in that moment.
Looks like the universal translater in TOS worked better than the one in the Kelvinverse.
Kelvin Uhura doesn't have much in common with... the other Uhura... Remember when she spoke "Klingon" in TUC, that was pretty bad...
Looks like the universal translater in TOS worked better than the one in the Kelvinverse.
Yeah, but on the other hand, the starships are a lot more advanced!!!
Well, we all have our weaknesses.Looks like the universal translater in TOS worked better than the one in the Kelvinverse.
They needed to know if any transmissions they picked up were Vulcan or Romulan, thus the need to be able to distinguish subtle grammatical differences.
Remember cupcake? That guy suffered from a major inferiority complex... I mean THREE YEARS later he was still upset that Kirk called him "cupcake" once, before he and the two others beat him within an inch of his life.
BTW, that was some unprofessional behavior! He and the two other bouncers were supposed to stop fights, not start them!! That was really big of Kirk to keep him in his team after that.
BTW, that was some unprofessional behavior! He and the two other bouncers were supposed to stop fights, not start them!! That was really big of Kirk to keep him in his team after that.
Why would Romulan and Vulcan have anything in common??? Because a couple of millennia before they lived on the same planet? I mean we live on the same planet as the Japanese. How much do English and Japanese sound alike???
They were not bouncers. They all were cadets protecting another cadet from a "townie."
Welcome to Star Trek world were everything is made up and time doesn't matter.
They were not bouncers. They all were cadets protecting another cadet from a "townie."
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Such an enlightened people!!!
It's TOS. There's no enlightened humanity here. There are killers who are not going to kill today.
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