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How did the culture in darmok achive spaceflight with memes alone
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It's a classic sci-fi story where the authors use an improbable scenario in order to explore important concepts outside of the contexts and presuppositions where you would normally see them - in this case overcoming communication and cultural barriers by joining in a struggle against a shared adversity, or more simply put "Darmok and Gilad at Tenagra".
People who expect Sci-Fi to be realistic, smh.
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The only unrealistic part was troi being helpful for once
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Troy? What is this 'Troy' thing?
Computer, list all things that are called Troy.
"Troy is an ancient city in what is now Turkey. Troy is the name of a quarterback who played for the Cowboys. The Mk. 14 Troy is a type of s*x toy from the Weimar Republic. Troy is..."
Enough! This is taking forever. Wait...I have an idea! Computer...what is Troy...in the context of Star Trek since that's what we're talking about right now?
"Deanna Troi is a character on TNG."
Of course! I just invented this thing called cross referencing! I'm so smart. Looks like those eight years in Starfleet Academy did not go to waste.
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Ikr Greek women amirite? No I'm not still seething.
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OP, his bussy blasted.
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Shaka when the walls fell
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Yes it's completely r-slurred and makes no sense. It's trying to connect with you on an emotional level. Which Paul Winfield and that English strag can totally pull off.
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Like it could make sense if they were all telepathic and they all experienced the things between each other and the only way that they could communicate with the outside world was through stories
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I didn't mind the language thing. It made no sense, but then again, nothing ever makes sense on Star Trek.
I have two problems with that episode:
1. they couldn't afford a monster so they just said "oh it turns out the monster is invisible."
2. Troi and Data (!) had to invent the concept of cross-referencing in real time.
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They built the Enterprise-D without knowing how databases work.
I mean tbf Voyager went to Saturn using fricking dBase.
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I know it was a good troi episode. Whoda thought
They did have moments of the moster becoming visible
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Just watched that episode recently and yeah, it's some the best actual sci-fi of it's era
The time has come for the Necromaster. The unleashing of the fourth joker's card. The arrival of The Great Milenko
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