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Federation of Hold My Beer [Now with Narration!]
(startrek.website)
Too long, don't wanna read? I got bored. Feel free to listen instead.
I never got into Discovery, but that's neat that they remembered that species exists. Someday I'll give it another go. I like when Star Trek does go "...Wait that's a thing we did, go back to that." Partially why I enjoy Lower Decks.
I also saw some of the episode where the Universal Translator broke, and I wish that was a full episode, on how to deal with it. I'm kinda shocked the Federation never has that problem often enough where they need to have "Star Trek Esperanto" as needed for all cadets to graduate.
They do have Federation Standard as a language, which I assume is probably English with lots of words from Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite, but not everyone knows it. The problem in that episode though wasn't that the UT was down, it's that it was translating what everyone was saying, or reading on consoles, into other languages. I'm sure there were places on the ship we didn't see, where some historian was so excited to have a use for their pen and paper, so they could communicate through written Federation Standard lol
Ah, I'm sure that would have been more clear if I watched the damn thing. Cheers!