Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x04 - "An Obol for Charon"
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But the point is, for that reason, we have no idea that "Federation Standard" even is English. It's just depicted that way onscreen.
Pike described the colonists in New Eden as speaking Federation standard
Maybe Esperonto makes a come back.
Yeah, I guess it's a volume level thing for me as well.
I suppose a lower volume of music playing over the dialogue is fine sometimes, such as in the scene like when Saru was possibly about to die. However, I don't think we need loud urgently tense cello music to punctuating the dialogue throughout an entire scene in which the urgent tension is already made obvious just by the situation and dialogue.
I suppose someone figured "well, we play quiet melancholy music over the dialogue in quiet melancholy situations, so maybe we should constantly play louder more tense music over the dialogue when the situation isn't melancholy."
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Yeah, song lyrics are a bear, rights-wise. As an editor, I often discourage authors from quoting their favorite song lyrics in their books, as epigrams or whatever, because the permissions issues are such a headache . . . and are, let it be noted, the author's responsibility, not the publisher's.
As I understand it, the issue here is percentages. Citing a small percentage of a work, like a few paragraphs from a novel, is regarded as fair use, but since songs may only run a few hundred words at most, even a few lines constitutes too large a percentage of the entire work.
The same issues apply to poetry, btw.
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True, it could go several ways: Federation Standard could be English because the show is produced in the United States, and the actors speak English as the default for this production. It could also just be something completely different and we're getting "Universal Translatored" all of the time. Still, it doesn't change my initial point that we're given points of reference that are familiar so we can still connect to the episode. Doing the entire series in a made up language, with completely unknown cultural touchstones would make the show difficult to follow for most.
Hmmm...Connolly there looks like Jake Peralta. Noice!
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It was interesting to see how they handled Tilly's skull-drilling scene. I kinda rolled my eyes that suddenly there was an old-fashioned drill rather than a penlight-esque Trekamabob. But they actually exercised a little restraint and let the imagination, rather than gore, do the heavy lifting.
As far as skull-drilling scenes go, I approved of that one.
As far as skull-drilling scenes go, I approved of that one.
They said the word teleporter, based on the context they were referring to Number One. So are they using it as an adjective? “One who teleports”?
I believe you are correct. I guess that does sound better than 'Transportee'.
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