i want someone who’s never seen star trek try to make sense of this.
the replies to this post are the fucking funniest thing:
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#Star Trek #DS9 #god kiwilapple is extremely close though #good job kiwilapple #(ftr: man is realising that he’s just contracted a bioterrorist virus which) #(causes your attempts at linguistic communication to come out as gibberish) #(and you perceive others as doing the same) #(also a couple days later it kills you for good measure) #((you know what really weirds me out about this episode?)) #((when Patient Zero turns up everyone leaps straight to ”holy shit what’s wrong with O’Brien?!”)) #((rather than ”*sigh* great‚ now we have to fix the *translator* too”)) #(((also why *didn’t* the translator mask it?))) #(((a given patient spouts the *same* gibberish when trying to communicate the same thing through speech and through writing))) #(((which suggests a consistent verbal remapping that you can just treat like a new language))) #((((of course thinking through the implications of stuff has never been Star Trek’s strong suit)))) #((((and especially not in a season one)))) #illness tw #death tw #tag rambles
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