we know that universal translators exist in Star Trek, it’s fundamental. but we don’t really know how… graceful? that translation is. Does it have any style? i’m thinking Julian is , as we know, passing him classic human literature and garak’s reading it–
“God-will-hear = me! The past was a time before the present by some amount. I am bored and my little bag has no things inside. God-will-hear ( = me! ) looked at wooden floaty and brain said ‘climb on top of wooden floaty to acquire currency of metal disks’! Floating object would be floating in Big Wet so eyes could see Big Wet! Blood is in my body.”
and he is like what the fuck is this and
Julian: moby dick is one of the most Famous Novels for being amazing. i can’t believe you don’t love it
garak: ………………………………………………. 😑
(via conceptadecency)
