False Profits

[Melakon]

Or when you're busy, you put the baby in the holo-nursery and Emergency Wetnurse Holograms take care of it for you.

But make sure the safety protocols are on, because when you're ready to pick baby up again, the Mrs. Templeton program tries to attack you with a knife.

 

[JeffinOakland]

There is no personal wealth in the Federation.

That should level level the playing field for the more abrasive.

I wonder how monumentally the birthrate in the Federation fell with the invention of holosuites?

...

Dharma and Greg is fantastic.

She's hippy from a family of hippies, and he's a privileged lawyer from money.

They get married during their first date, and hilarity ensures.

if god had meant man to just procreate, he wouldn't have made it fun

 

[Guy Gardener]

God may have invented sex, but it was the devil who made it fun.

 

[RainKing]

I am not a very detail-oriented Star Trek fan, so I don't really know how the universal translator is supposed to work... Still, this episode seems to be one of many where crew members beam down to a primitive planet and pretend to be locals and none of the aliens notice anything amiss about the communication. I get the crew being able to understand, but not the other way around.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The UT reads everyone's brainwaves in the vicinity and beams a translation into the primitive folk's brains so that they hear the words spoken in their own language. It also screws with their vision so that they perceive the mouth of the aliens to be moving in a way in sync with their words. Yes all this beaming and scrambling is done to folk without their permission but obviously if it is from the Federation so it is good and wondrous and everyone will be happy.

 

[JeffinOakland]

The UT reads everyone's brainwaves in the vicinity and beams a translation into the primitive folk's brains so that they hear the words spoken in their own language. It also screws with their vision so that they perceive the mouth of the aliens to be moving in a way in sync with their words. Yes all this beaming and scrambling is done to folk without their permission but obviously if it is from the Federation so it is good and wondrous and everyone will be happy.

So what you're saying is that its magic. Got it. Thanx.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

It's a low level brainwashing device compared to a lot of what we've seen.

 

[Melakon]

It's a low level brainwashing device. . .

The same can be said for television.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The Magic of Rays.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Everybody Loves Rays.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I hated that show with fiery passion.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ditto.

But I could see that the wife was very attractive with an unforgivable hair cut.

Hear that?

Men don't know what they like about women's hair, but they know what they hate.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I can honestly say I have never had a male say anything nice about my hair, ever. As in, they say nothing until you ask and then they say something bad

 

[Melakon]

I have a bad tendency to not notice a hairstyle change until about a week later.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Being 80 percent blind is a valid excuse for not pandering to their every affectation.

Of course it also means they know that you're lying when you say it looks like they lost 5 pounds.

"Of course I know you've lost 5 pounds, my other sense make up for my visual deficits... I can smell that you have... I mean, that I can HEAR that you have lost 5... No that's still not right, please don't hurt me."

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Well intentioned lies are worth a great deal.

 

[RainKing]

Thanks for the UT explanation. I always wondered why a person's lips were not mismatched with their words like an old Godzilla movie.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That's a TOS explanation from Metamorphosis.

The Universal Translator took a couple days to figure out the Skreeans in DS9 Sanctuary.

Meanwhile in DS9 Babel, the Universal translator was scrambled by terrorists so that even people speaking the same language only heard gobbledegook.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Would people even bother to learn other languages when they had the UT?

 

[Guy Gardener]

In Star Trek 6 the Undiscovered Country, we saw them holding hand units in court for translations, and when Enterprise was sneaking through Klingon space they had to use a hard cover of "Klingon for Dummies" to sweet talk the border guards because "they would recognize the Universal translator".

If the Universal Translator does work on brainwaves, then Data, and what about telepaths who know how to shield their brainwaves and would rather shield their brainwaves than not?