Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”

[Nerys Myk]

Exactly. They could have done kissing noises with their lips while wagging the salute at them or something. Not sure why Vulcans Romulans would use our gestures unless they've been subsumed to human mores.

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We pick up things from other cultures all of the time. Words. Food. Gestures. Fashions.

 

[Turtletrekker]

We pick up things from other cultures all of the time. Words. Food. Gestures. Fashions.

"When in Rome..."

 

[cooleddie74]

We pick up things from other cultures all of the time. Words. Food. Gestures. Fashions.

Spock: "There is an old Vulcan proverb. 'Only Nixon could go to China.' "

 

[Frontis]

Epidode 3 and I still love it. It is a perfect mixture of a college story with teenager problems and Star Trek sience fiction. Just missed the Doctor this time. And imo Holly Hunter is a bit too Hippie.

 

[firehawk12]

We pick up things from other cultures all of the time. Words. Food. Gestures. Fashions.

Considering Earth was a xenophobic planet for a hundred years, it seems odd even if you had humans in the Federation or at least on post-Burn starships traveling around.

Or at this point, apparently we can just blame everything on the universal translator and just pretend she did some Romulan gesture that got translated into blowing air kisses somehow... just like Betazoids using ASL.