#the crux of the resolution also relies on the blending of language/engineering (a vy diane duane-esque concept)

[thunderandsage]

“—she twisted her throat around the bizarreness of the new language, and her mind around the concepts, wrestling them as if wrestling an angel—the object being not to win but to lose to the other: to surrender into the alternate mind-set and think in the other language, and for the hundredth time become more than she ever had been before the surrender […] Her enemy was changed too; she looked inside her, and found a lover there instead” (The Wounded Sky, Diane Duane).

What I absolutely adore about this depiction of Uhura is how it removes the act of learning a language as "owning" the language, which is more like an act conquest, and instead asserts that the language and way of thinking assimilates you instead of the other way around and that there is joy in that surrender—there's this almost anticolonial sentiment underneath that sort of philosophy and also fits very neatly into IDIC as a concept. Just. Very cool.