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Post by chronotigger65 on May 27, 2016 19:00:04 GMT -5
I'm currently doing some research into something involving the Star Trek series. My mom asked a question years ago about how they communicate with their combadges. She wondered how is it that they can talk to each other using those combadges or communicators person to person without others around them hearing them talk. I've done some looking at the wikia for the franchise and so far assume it has to do with subspace frequencies but there's just so much technical mumbo jumbo there that I felt it best to come here and possibly ask for some help in the matter. My mom knows what I'm doing and looks forward in what I find so any help would be appreciated.
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Post by X-pert74 on May 27, 2016 19:14:24 GMT -5
A wizard did it.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 19:22:21 GMT -5
Possibly quantum entanglement, though how they would perform something like that with such small devices is essentially the realm of wizards.
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Post by bakudon on May 28, 2016 1:56:56 GMT -5
In Star Trek, everything works because of ”subspace”.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2016 2:04:34 GMT -5
In Star Trek, everything works because of ”subspace”. Sounds about right.  |
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Post by jorpho on Jun 3, 2016 8:36:46 GMT -5
They never really talked about how the "universal translator" worked either.
It came as something of a surprise in DS9 when an alien was encountered whose language was actually inscrutable by the universal translator, at least initially. So they kept her talking for a while and eventually someone said, "Hey, I think she just said the word 'need'", and then soon enough everyone could understand her. Something similar happened in that later episode where Quark and company are stranded on Earth in the 1940s and their universal translator (stowed somewhere in their ears) was malfunctioning.
So then there was that episode of Voyager where they found Amelia Earhart and a bunch of other people abducted from Earth in the 1930s, including a Japanese soldier, who exclaimed, "Why are you all speaking Japanese?" Janeway at that point indicated that the universal translator was also stored in her com badge – implying it was somehow translating everyone's speech for everyone else. Figure that one out.
...Dang, I wish I was making this up.
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Post by Dee Liteyears on Jun 3, 2016 13:52:07 GMT -5
I'd say some very advanced selective noisecanceling technology is at work
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Jun 3, 2016 20:51:07 GMT -5
I usually just assume any fictional translator is the Bablefish from Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. Star Trek crosses dimensions sometimes, I could see somebody sneaking some into star trek verse then just making up some mumble jumo
"But it looks like a fish sir"
"No! it's...it's a thing I invented that... *Insert made uo techie mumbo jumbo...."
"Um...the captain wants me I gotta go..."
"I am the captain!"
"The captain...on some...other ship...cya!"
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