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Battle of the translators

Hoshi, any day. Linguistic genius. Figured out new languages without any data. For fun.

C3PO might not be as adept, as his programming might be limited. His function was a translator but did he have the capability to learn new languages?

Lwaxana is not a translator. She's a diplomat. She may be able to detect that all the alien men in the known universe want her but she can't translate their language for anyone.

If anyone from TNG was a superior translator, it was probably data. He was designed to learn and grow.

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A key is to have an ever-changing solution. Any one method for too long will inevitably fail, so you have to regularly change it up. This also plays on the "interest, challenge, novelty, urgency" way which our brains work by keeping our brain engaged instead of bored.

But still, the dilemma of having the energy (and availability creativity) to keep changing or rotating the method can be a regular pitfall.

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They don't care about the canon in the slightest. That has been proven again and again.

The only reason they use the same names is because people will recognize the name which will increase the chances of more sales. Just as reworking the Gorn to be completely different was about increasing sales.

Its all about the demographics and maximizing sales by bringing in fans who didn't like the original Star Trek.

Roddenberry's dream died a long time ago, I'm just glad he's not around to have to see it.