This was a plotpoint in DS9 where the UT didn’t picked up the nuances of a language but the mutants who were able to comprehend the language deciphered what was really meant.
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xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 months agoOne thing I’ve always wondered, and this is hardly the most unbelievable aspect of the science fiction elements of this show but it’s one of the most pervasive and constant; why don’t we ever hear the native languages of the aliens underneath the sounds of the universal translators? Most, although not all, of them speak by vibrating the air, so where are those sounds disappearing to?
DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 months ago
disk42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They actually do this in Star Trek Beyond
Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The translator also emits an interference pattern that cancels out the original speech to the listener