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ensign-smith · 1 year ago

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high thoughts from the other night in bed

how the hell does the universal translator work? what is it? does everybody have implants in their brains which runs all audio output through a translation buffer before relaying it to the auditory cortex? is it a physical device that plays the translated sentence out loud? WHAT IS THIS MYSTERY THING

#star trek #i feel like its just. never addressed #even with technobabble explanations #star trek really said “we pretend we do not see it” when confronted with the problem of communication between alien species #one ep in VOY we know it translates everybody for the individual person #(japanese man says “and why are you all speaking japanese!”)#i know i could just look this up on the wiki #but im curious about tumblr headcanons

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