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.

 

[fireproof78]

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.

It's not like cultural artifacts would cease to be spread around, even if humans were not journeying as much.

 

[Fateor]

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.

A xenophobic planet for hundreds of years? Um what? Where are you getting that from?

 

[Nerys Myk]

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.

Why would it seem odd? Expatriates often keep their cultures alive. And of course there were humans in the Federation post-Burn. We see them throughout Discovery. First and foremost in Admiral Vance. Plus all the human colonies that didn't join Earth in isolation.

 

[cooleddie74]

The Mariposa Colony in TNG that was established around the time of or even before ENT kept a lot of 22nd century and even older attitudes that were on full display when Data and the Enterprise-D crew visited that planet in Season 5.