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OVEG Video: Basics 2 of 3
Opinionated Voyager Episode Guide's second look at the Basics cliffhanger. In this installment you will no doubt notice my intense anti-Neelix sentiment - well, it's fully deserved. This is his moment to shine and he chokes big time. Given everything that happens because of him, he's lucky the most that happens is being mocked by me. Anyway, the Voyager crew is shoved off onto a barren planet and forced to survive on their own while the Kazon make off with Voyager.
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Its actually not surprising at all that Janeway assigned Harry and Neelix as group leaders, given her deplorable track record of assigning completely inappropriate people to other tasks in the past, like you ripped on in State of Flux.
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I always get Trekkie apologists who take issue with the reviews, but this one takes the cake. One guy is seriously suggesting my universal translator observation is wrong because Ocampa speak English.... not that Kes specifically has learned English, but that the Ocampa language is English. Really, that a language that is itself a hodgepodge of Latin, German, and French somehow is also spoken by some aliens on the other side of the galaxy. I just had to share that one, it's too much fun to keep to myself.
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Better still, Neelix, who also has had zero reason to learn english prior to Voyager's arrival, also understands Kes, despite the fact that he's a Talaxian.Sonnenburg wrote:I always get Trekkie apologists who take issue with the reviews, but this one takes the cake. One guy is seriously suggesting my universal translator observation is wrong because Ocampa speak English.... not that Kes specifically has learned English, but that the Ocampa language is English. Really, that a language that is itself a hodgepodge of Latin, German, and French somehow is also spoken by some aliens on the other side of the galaxy. I just had to share that one, it's too much fun to keep to myself.
The only explanation is that Neelix and Kes took the effort to learn Voyager's primary language (english) so they could communicate with everyone without the universal translator.
Of course, Quark and his family lived with Cardassians, Bajorans, and humans, and never bothered to learn any of their languages the entire time. When they went back in time to Roswell, they couldn't understand anything the humans were saying until they fixed the universal translators in their ears.
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And damn you for putting that music back in my head and associating it with Voyager. I'm going to have to re-watch Highlander a couple of times to try and get rid of any hint of it.Sonnenburg wrote:Bonny Portmore by Loreena McKennittBubble Boy wrote:Hey, what's that music playing at the beginning of the video?
Other than that, the review was very good. As always.
Can't they even TRY to think of something remotely reasonable, like say Starfleet personnel have UT's implanted into them as standard.I always get Trekkie apologists who take issue with the reviews, but this one takes the cake. One guy is seriously suggesting my universal translator observation is wrong because Ocampa speak English.... not that Kes specifically has learned English, but that the Ocampa language is English. Really, that a language that is itself a hodgepodge of Latin, German, and French somehow is also spoken by some aliens on the other side of the galaxy. I just had to share that one, it's too much fun to keep to myself.
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Wow.....
I had simply forgotten how bad Neelix's survival skills were in this episode.
And i think I might have insulted all boy scout dropouts in my assesment of his skills last review. Neelix has the survival skills of a rock or perhaps a table.
That might insulting to your average table.
I had simply forgotten how bad Neelix's survival skills were in this episode.
And i think I might have insulted all boy scout dropouts in my assesment of his skills last review. Neelix has the survival skills of a rock or perhaps a table.
That might insulting to your average table.
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God forbid entertaining the possibility that the writers forgot they wouldn't speak the same language.I always get Trekkie apologists who take issue with the reviews, but this one takes the cake. One guy is seriously suggesting my universal translator observation is wrong because Ocampa speak English.... not that Kes specifically has learned English, but that the Ocampa language is English.
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Would the episode really have been enhanced if there was a scene where Janeway & Co. spent five minutes trying fruitlessly to communicate with Neelix, and eventually decided that they'd have to ignore him until Voyager came back?
Oh, wait a minute, that probably would have made for a better episode, wouldn't it? Never mind.
Oh, wait a minute, that probably would have made for a better episode, wouldn't it? Never mind.
Saying that Kes speaks english is absurd. I could however buy that the tiny translators they have in their ears can translate stuff that has already been analysed, but to translate a new language requires the power of the ships computers. However the most likely explaination in reality is that the writers are morons.
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When i saw the music montage i had the feeling you'd finally lost it and Voyager had driven you insane.Darth Servo wrote:Its actually not surprising at all that Janeway assigned Harry and Neelix as group leaders, given her deplorable track record of assigning completely inappropriate people to other tasks in the past, like you ripped on in State of Flux.
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But then it should be noted that an example has been set for a completely valid explanation as to why two different species can understand eachother when all other technology has seemingly been removed (like communicators).Swindle1984 wrote:The only translators I've ever seen installed in anyone's ears were the ones used by Quark and his family.Stark wrote:Tell me more.Steel wrote:tiny translators they have in their ears
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Ha, reminds me of the first Simpson's Halloween Special with Kang and Kodos.Sonnenburg wrote:I always get Trekkie apologists who take issue with the reviews, but this one takes the cake. One guy is seriously suggesting my universal translator observation is wrong because Ocampa speak English.... not that Kes specifically has learned English, but that the Ocampa language is English. Really, that a language that is itself a hodgepodge of Latin, German, and French somehow is also spoken by some aliens on the other side of the galaxy. I just had to share that one, it's too much fun to keep to myself.
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Thats just.... uummmm.... something.Sonnenburg wrote:I always get Trekkie apologists who take issue with the reviews, but this one takes the cake. One guy is seriously suggesting my universal translator observation is wrong because Ocampa speak English.... not that Kes specifically has learned English, but that the Ocampa language is English. Really, that a language that is itself a hodgepodge of Latin, German, and French somehow is also spoken by some aliens on the other side of the galaxy. I just had to share that one, it's too much fun to keep to myself.
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A slight note I reminded the Trekkies on the youtube page of Spock knowing English as a reminder that Tuvok being understood wasn't so bad. it still does not explain how that both Neelix and Kes can be understood at all without a translator working.
Tuvok is a Vulcan that lives a long time and from a planet that has been a member of the Federation from almost day one. There is no odd reason why he shouldn't be able to speak english.
Neelix is from a planet on the far side of the galaxy and just barely contacted the crew of Voyager not that long ago. If he and Kes learned any of English at all it should be strained or limited rather then fluent.
their answer. Spock speaks english because he's half human.
By that logic because I'm 1/2 Scotch/Irish I should be able to speak Gallic, and being 1/4 Welsh I should also know Welsh.
Tuvok is a Vulcan that lives a long time and from a planet that has been a member of the Federation from almost day one. There is no odd reason why he shouldn't be able to speak english.
Neelix is from a planet on the far side of the galaxy and just barely contacted the crew of Voyager not that long ago. If he and Kes learned any of English at all it should be strained or limited rather then fluent.
their answer. Spock speaks english because he's half human.
By that logic because I'm 1/2 Scotch/Irish I should be able to speak Gallic, and being 1/4 Welsh I should also know Welsh.
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More proof of Trek beating into everyone's head the idea that knowledge is based on one's genetics rather than actual learning.Isolder74 wrote:their answer. Spock speaks english because he's half human.
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It's not as bad an argument as you think. Spock's mother was a teacher who spoke English, so it's hardly inconceivable that he'd learn to speak it too; children of mixed-language couples are more often than not bilingual.their answer. Spock speaks english because he's half human.
Unless of course they specifically dragged genetics into their argument.