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How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian language? - Darmok and Jalad
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Ubiquitous
2024-12-20 17:29:22 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
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anim8rfsk
2024-12-21 01:29:15 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
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Daniel
2024-12-23 09:05:43 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.

D
Ubiquitous
2024-12-23 09:32:24 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
In no particular order:

This one.

Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)

The "racist" one with Yar.

The one where Data tries to make a child.

The remake of Naked Time.

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anim8rfsk
2024-12-23 18:02:30 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
All fine choices.

I don’t really remember the racist one very well so I left it out. I
didn’t mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a
pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode
to show that crusher is completely incompetent.
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Ubiquitous
2024-12-24 04:23:58 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
All fine choices.
I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.
That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an
old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym
while wearing spiked oven mitts. Oh yeah, Yar is more than eager to fight
until she discovers they pump the other woman full of steroids and rage-
inducing drugs.
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I didn't mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a
pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode
to show that crusher is completely incompetent.
I hated it because it was childish and stupid.

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Wouter Valentijn
2024-12-24 16:48:11 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
All fine choices.
I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.
That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an
old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym
while wearing spiked oven mitts. Oh yeah, Yar is more than eager to fight
until she discovers they pump the other woman full of steroids and rage-
inducing drugs.
No, that was about soldiers is the post-atomic horror.
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I didn't mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a
pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode
to show that crusher is completely incompetent.
I hated it because it was childish and stupid.
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anim8rfsk
2024-12-25 01:31:24 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
All fine choices.
I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.
That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an
old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym
Oh, yeah. Thanks.
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while wearing spiked oven mitts. Oh yeah, Yar is more than eager to fight
until she discovers they pump the other woman full of steroids and rage-
inducing drugs.
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I didn't mind the one with data reproduced because the child actress did a
pretty good job. The naked now has the advantage of being the first episode
to show that crusher is completely incompetent.
I hated it because it was childish and stupid.
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Not a joke! Don't jump!
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The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.
Ubiquitous
2024-12-30 16:39:39 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty.
How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
All fine choices.
I don't really remember the racist one very well so I left it out.
That's the one where they encounter a planet inhabited by natives from an
old Tarzan movie. The king kidnaps Yar, I think to be part of his harem,
and she and his original wife have to duel to the death on a jungle gym
Oh, yeah. Thanks.
Heh.

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Daniel
2024-12-27 07:34:24 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
--
Not a joke! Don't jump!
Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG
Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.

Encounter at farpoint - the pilot

Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
the issue even though she had small pointies.

The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
light alien.

Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
course).

Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago
settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
reason.

Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the
enterprise.

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anim8rfsk
2024-12-27 07:50:12 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
--
Not a joke! Don't jump!
Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG
Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.
Encounter at farpoint - the pilot
Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
the issue even though she had small pointies.
The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
light alien.
Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
course).
Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago
settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
reason.
Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the
enterprise.
D
Even though your list has no overlap with mine, I agree with all your
choices.
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Daniel
2024-12-27 11:04:09 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
--
Not a joke! Don't jump!
Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG
Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.
Encounter at farpoint - the pilot
Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
the issue even though she had small pointies.
The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
light alien.
Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
course).
Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago
settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
reason.
Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the
enterprise.
D
Even though your list has no overlap with mine, I agree with all your
choices.
I have an episode guide that I referenced for my post. If you have lynx,
then go to:

gopher://infinitelyremote.com/0/quux-gopher-mirror/wiretap.area.com/Library/Media/Trek/tng.epi

Sorry, I meant to include the link but I was three beers to the wind by
the time I hit 'send.'

Daniel
anim8rfsk
2024-12-27 18:39:03 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
--
Not a joke! Don't jump!
Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG
Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.
Encounter at farpoint - the pilot
Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
the issue even though she had small pointies.
The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
light alien.
Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
course).
Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago
settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
reason.
Deja Q - q is kicked out of the continuum and asks for sanctuary on the
enterprise.
D
Even though your list has no overlap with mine, I agree with all your
choices.
I have an episode guide that I referenced for my post. If you have lynx,
gopher://infinitelyremote.com/0/quux-gopher-mirror/wiretap.area.com/Library/Media/Trek/tng.epi
Sorry, I meant to include the link but I was three beers to the wind by
the time I hit 'send.'
Daniel
Hee hee

I think the biggest problem with post TOS trek is limiting it to only a
bottom five!
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Ubiquitous
2025-01-02 09:30:49 UTC
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One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
This one.
Sub Rosa (Crusher has sex with a ghost)
The "racist" one with Yar.
The one where Data tries to make a child.
The remake of Naked Time.
Here are mine, the list changes as I age. I consulted an episode guide
for seasons 1-5 originally posted on rec.arts.startrek.misc titled ST:TNG
Episode List on 3/3/93. I haven't watched many of the shows since the
early nineties, and I am aware that the first two seasons were
absolutely horrible. The descriptions don't sound too bad though.
Encounter at farpoint - the pilot
Yar dies on a whim of a garbage bag creature who lives in tar. She
wanted to leave the show and preferred to model for playboy. I bought
the issue even though she had small pointies.
The Child - the alien jesus story where troi gets preggers by a glowy
light alien.
I fucking hate "star-child" storoes!
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Time Squared - double picard episode. one from the future, after the
enterprise is destroyed with the future picard the only survivor (of
course).
Up The Long Ladder - some human colonists who left earth a long time ago
settled on a planet where one group rejected tech while the other one
resorted to cloning and were in desparate need of dna for some stupid
reason.
The space-Irish didn't live on the same planet, but were left there for the
clones to interbreed, but I have no doubt as soon as the Enterprise left,
they were all put into medical comas and used for cloning material.

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anim8rfsk
2024-12-23 18:02:29 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
List your bottom five.
D
Without looking at a list?

And no order

Darmok

The Royale

Shades of Grey.

The one with the Mayan Temple in space.

The one Gates McMuffin directed where everybody devolves into a different
species.

The one where Gates McMuffin is having sex with a ghost

Justice could’ve been saved if they had actually executed Wesley. A.k.a.
“planet Malibu“
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Ubiquitous
2024-12-23 09:32:23 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
I always wonder why this is often listed as a "fan favorite".



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Guillaume de Thieulloy
2024-12-31 21:23:14 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
One of the bottom five episodes of TNG.
Loved this episode, a language spoken 100% in idioms is such a cool
concept
The Last Doctor
2024-12-23 09:15:22 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

Dungpile, when the male cattle had gorged on laxative grasses.
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The Last Doctor
2024-12-23 09:15:00 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?

Dungpile, when the male cattle had gorged on laxative grasses.
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There's no point in being grown up if you can't act a little childish
sometimes.
�R
George Levens
2024-12-29 08:16:46 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.
Dimensional Traveler
2024-12-30 15:45:04 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.
Or how they even told each other about the events they built their
metaphors upon.
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dirty old man.
anim8rfsk
2024-12-31 05:50:48 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.
Or how they even told each other about the events they built their
metaphors upon.
Exactly. The only way this came to be is if they spoke a real language and
then created their stupid metaphor language just to annoy other people.
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Ubiquitous
2025-01-01 01:40:28 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.
Or how they even told each other about the events they built their
metaphors upon.
Exactly. The only way this came to be is if they spoke a real language and
then created their stupid metaphor language just to annoy other people.
:-)
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Ubiquitous
2024-12-30 16:38:31 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.
That's my biggest complaint, plus the claim that real linguists were unable
to figure it out for many years but picard did it within 24 hours.

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Ubiquitous
2025-01-01 03:13:29 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
A bit tough to say "raise the shields" or "disengage the Heisenberg
compensators" in Tamarian. Makes one wonder how they built ships, put
their kids through medical school and followed recipes all in metaphors.
I suspect "Wile E Coyotte, while trying to catch the Road Runner" wasn't
very helpfull at all to survival.
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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.
John
2024-12-30 16:45:44 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
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Let's go Brandon!
Rule #1 of all things TREK:

Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.

Only expect a modicum suspended disbelief.


-J
anim8rfsk
2024-12-31 05:50:47 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty. How
realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
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Let's go Brandon!
Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.
When did that start?
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Only expect a modicum suspended disbelief.
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Ubiquitous
2025-01-01 01:41:38 UTC
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Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.
Only expect a modicum suspended disbelief.
Oh, they passed "modicrum" long ago!
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Ubiquitous
2025-01-01 02:16:20 UTC
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Picard and Darmok at El-Adrel, Chinese chengyu, and memes aplenty.
How realistic is Star Trek's Tamarian?
http://youtu.be/Rmx0Dj25z9Y
Writers are not scientists or engineers. They are entertainers.
The premise of your argument is incorrect. Try again, please.

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