Luke
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Darmok
Jul 10, 2010 8:11:27 GMT -6
Post by Luke on Jul 10, 2010 8:11:27 GMT -6
I liked this one. This is where we met the children of Tamar. They were a species that communicated just with images and metaphors. It was pracically impossible to understand what they were saying.
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Arkroyal
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Darmok
Jul 10, 2010 10:23:38 GMT -6
Post by Arkroyal on Jul 10, 2010 10:23:38 GMT -6
I like the idea of the friendship forged in battle having it's own phrase "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra". It was certainly an interesting way of looking at language!
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Atoz 77
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Jul 12, 2010 7:31:00 GMT -6
Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 12, 2010 7:31:00 GMT -6
I really was, wasn't it? (Although impractical when you stop to think about it, because they have to be able to teach the stories to their young somehow, don't they?) If you watch it a second or a third time, you actually start learning to translate some of their metaphors. For example, when Dathon said, "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra", his second in command would say, "Mirab, his sails unfurled", which apparently means, "Let's just get out of here."
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Arkroyal
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Darmok
Jul 12, 2010 13:30:36 GMT -6
Post by Arkroyal on Jul 12, 2010 13:30:36 GMT -6
Of course! I wonder if they normally teach their youngsters through pictoral means or whether they teach them in a similiar manner to Picard?
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Luke
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Darmok
Jul 14, 2010 11:28:13 GMT -6
Post by Luke on Jul 14, 2010 11:28:13 GMT -6
And their technology was at least as good as ours. How about when they shot at an evading shuttlecraft and managed to just clip the thruster pod?
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