(VI) Uhura gets for not being fluent in Klingon

[Shat Happens]

but nobody remember she was the one who figured the Bird of Prey's weakness. That was the green-blooded hobgoblin's job and he couldn't.

If it wasn't for her, we'd all be speaking Klingon.

 

[USS Firefly]

I guess it was just to get "humor" in the scene.

 

[Vger23]

People like to complain about the negative and ignore the positive.

"Welcome to fandom"

 

[fireproof78]

"Things got to have a tail pipe" pretty much runs through my head any time I see a Bird of Prey explode.

The "nobody remembers" allegations is a little hyperbolic.

 

[Timewalker]

"Things got to have a tail pipe"

And to think that if that line was uttered on Star Trek Voyager, the only person who would understand it is Tom Paris.

Truly, a starship communications officer who is unfamiliar with the language of a species that - for good or ill - they have regular contact with, is ridiculous.

If you're at war with another culture, you make sure to employ at least one, if not more, people who can understand their language. That's military strategy that goes back to ancient times.

 

[Pauln6]

It's not just Uhura. Sending a ship to meet a Klingon delegation where not a single crewman on board speaks Klingon is a deliberate and calculated insult. This is the kind of TOS plot point that led to a new impossibly hot crewman for Kirk or Scotty to lust over.

 

[Tosk]

but nobody remember she was the one who figured the Bird of Prey's weakness. That was the green-blooded hobgoblin's job and he couldn't.

You're misremembering the scene. It was Spock who came up with a potential way to track the Bird of Prey. Uhura joined in on the idea, continuing on from his spoken thought and mentioning the equipment they were currently carrying.

If it wasn't for her, we'd all be speaking Klingon.

If the new peace had been sabotaged it's the Klingons who would be in a bad way, not the Federation.

 

[Pauln6]

You're misremembering the scene. It was Spock who came up with a potential way to track the Bird of Prey. Uhura joined in on the idea, continuing on from his spoken thought and mentioning the equipment they were currently carrying.


If the new peace had been sabotaged it's the Klingons who would be in a bad way, not the Federation.

The original concept was for Rand on Excelsior, since they were the ones who were stated to have been logging gaseous anomalies. If standard equipment can just target exhaust plasma, why is it not standard practice to scan for localised emissions when dealing with cloaked vessels?

 

[Tosk]

Hey, I don't disagree.

 

[Tallguy]

Uhura gets for not being fluent in Klingon

I don't give any... (Is there an object in that sentence?) to Uhura. I give lots of it to Nick Meyer. He's a smart man (ask him) who knows a lot of things. But this wasn't his wheelhouse. This seemed to be his shot to take Starfleet (and whatever it might stand in for) down a peg and he took it. (It's funny that the jumping off point for this movie was supposedly The Hunt For Red October --IN SPACE--, yet there is no "Jack Ryan" in this film who is an expert on Klingons.)

For all the... that various nuTrek gets, they have largely done right by Nyota. The books got there first, making Uhura a legend in her field. The movies and SNW have followed after.

I didn't mind (well, I did) Uhura not speaking Klingon NEARLY as much as the ginormous book and the no-name extra TELLING UHURA WHAT TO DO!

As for "the things gotta have a tailpipe", this was fill in the blank writing where they didn't do a good job of filling in the blanks. "The Klingons have an unstoppable weapon. Spock / Uhura will ____ and figure out that ____ will stop them."

There's a fair amount of this in TUC. "Crewmen will now say generalized racist things". "Um, is that racist enough?" "Sure, we're on a schedule!"

"Spock will now track the untrackable Kirk." "How?" "Does it matter? Do we have a small piece of velcro? Get a move on!"

 

[Shat Happens]

You're misremembering the scene. It was Spock who came up with a potential way to track the Bird of Prey. Uhura joined in on the idea, continuing on from his spoken thought and mentioning the equipment they were currently carrying.

I have brought dishonor to my House.

(Is there an object in that sentence?)

There is, but it's cloaked.

 

[Tallguy]

There is, but it's cloaked.

Quality save.

 

[trekshark]

I understand not having the ut send the reply but why couldn't it have translated the incoming and phonetically write out their reply for her to read off the screen?

 

[Tallguy]

I understand not having the ut send the reply but why couldn't it have translated the incoming and phonetically write out their reply for her to read off the screen?

Because Meyer didn't get technology.

 

[thribs]

She had her mind erased in the Changeling. She probably just didn't relearn it afterwards.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

(It's funny that the jumping off point for this movie was supposedly The Hunt For Red October --IN SPACE--, yet there is no "Jack Ryan" in this film who is an expert on Klingons.)

I've never heard that the concept for the film was "The Hunt For Red October in space." I have heard that it was "The Wall comes down in outer space," which isn't really the same thing.

 

[fireproof78]

Because Meyer didn't get technology.

He's the ancestors of Samuel Cogely.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

He's the ancestors of Samuel Cogely.

Plural?

 

[fireproof78]

Plural?

It's complicated.

Or my autocorrect decided plural was better.

 

[Mudd]

I've never heard that the concept for the film was "The Hunt For Red October in space."

Yeah, it's definitely Red October.