Posted: Wed 05 Dec 2007 13:41 Post subject: Re: ha anyone though about this?
OTHER wrote:
Well, according to Stargate Command, the other planets were populated with various peoples plucked from earth.
And I like how every planet populated by humans Stargate Command visits the people speak English. Ronin, Taila (spelling), the Janai (spelling) all speak English. Even the Jaffa speak English along with that jibberish they use when they want to sound mean and intimidating.
Strange that there's no need for the equivalent of a Star Trek universal translator.
Posted: Wed 05 Dec 2007 14:06 Post subject: B'Elanna Torres
G-Man wrote:
BlueDreams wrote:
Andrew Waters wrote:
So you guys do know how to laugh after all.
As long as they're not part klingon.
Umm, what's wrong with having Klingon ancestry? They are more technologically advanced than humans with a kind of alpha male, warrior mentality. My kind of people, I mean beings.
Klingons are my favorite
B'Elanna Torres, played by Roxann Dawson, is a character in Star Trek: Voyager. She is the Chief Engineer of the USS Voyager.
Torres is the only major Star Trek character with a Hispanic background.
Born in 2349 on the Federation colony Kessik IV, Torres had a troubled childhood. Her human father and Klingon mother often fought, and her father ultimately left the household when she was five years old (later on it is said to be when she was twelve). He returned to Earth, leaving her to be raised by her mother.
A mixture of Klingon and human progeny, Torres was prone to aggressive outbursts. She once attacked schoolmate Daniel Byrd after he repeatedly taunted her, calling her "Miss Turtlehead" (because of her cranial ridges). Torres retained this aggressive behavior throughout her life, but she eventually learned to control it.
Torres later begins a relationship with Paris after a complicated and stormy courtship. During an incident in 2374, Torres confesses her love for Tom Paris to him, when they are left floating in space in environmental suits, with almost no hope of rescue ("Day of Honor"). Although Voyager is soon able to rescue them, Torres realizes that her courage in admitting her love has brought her one step closer to discovering what she considers true honor. Their relationship first flourishes on-screen during "Scientific Method". They marry in 2377, and have their honeymoon aboard the Delta Flyer.
When Torres and Paris conceive their child in mid-2377, she learns from The Doctor that the child will have distinct Klingon cranial ridges as well as other Klingon traits. Torres, remembering painful events from her own childhood, urges the Doctor to perform gene therapy to reduce this phenotype, and even goes so far as to reprogram him to do so. Her husband and Captain Janeway both disagree, and manage to prevent the Doctor from performing the genetic modifications. When Paris succeeds in getting her to open up, she admits she's afraid that her husband will find living with two Klingons too difficult and will leave her the way her father did. Once he allays her fears, admitting he wants even more children just like their mother, Torres is finally free to enjoy the pregnancy.
Although only a quarter Klingon, Torres's unborn child is later deemed the Klingon savior by a cult of Klingons that have journeyed deep into the Delta Quadrant on a generational voyage in search of a messiah to bring peace to the empire. The Klingons eventually settle on an uninhabited world, but during their time on Voyager, they re-awaken Torres's interest in her Klingon heritage.
Torres' and Paris' daughter, Miral Paris, is born in 2378, during Voyager's trip through a Borg transwarp conduit back toward the Alpha Quadrant. In an alternate timeline where Voyager makes it home through different means, Miral is shown as an adult serving in Starfleet, with the rank of ensign.
Posted: Thu 06 Dec 2007 02:21 Post subject: Re: ha anyone though about this?
G-Man wrote:
OTHER wrote:
Well, according to Stargate Command, the other planets were populated with various peoples plucked from earth.
And I like how every planet populated by humans Stargate Command visits the people speak English. Ronin, Taila (spelling), the Janai (spelling) all speak English. Even the Jaffa speak English along with that jibberish they use when they want to sound mean and intimidating.
Strange that there's no need for the equivalent of a Star Trek universal translator.
Tek ma tay, Master G-Man. Indeed. Yeah, perhaps the Asgard taught them all English in hopes of declaring an intergalactic official language.
This thread really works out great with the book I'm currently reading - "Prelude to Foundation" by Isaac Asimov (THE MAN of Sci-Fi!!!). No "aliens", though. Just billions of humans on millions of planets. They have people with slanted eyes and yellowish skin called Easterners, dark-skinned people with kinky hair called Southerners, and white-skinned people called Westerners, but nobody knows why and they don't understand why nobody is called Northerners (uh, it's frozen). Yeah, they are WAY into the future an have no knowledge of earth (no by page 140 anyway). They are like over 20,000 years in the future - just a bunch of "Outworlders".
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Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2007 05:12 Post subject:
Well it looks like I've missed out on all the fun by not being a Star Trek fan over the many years. This is interesting because I did stop and linger on occasion over the years and found myself wondering, with all the different looking characters on the show, if some of them would say something about why this or that person looks different than some others. I guess they did. My loss I see.
Posted: Fri 07 Dec 2007 16:10 Post subject: Re: ha anyone though about this?
OTHER wrote:
G-Man wrote:
OTHER wrote:
Well, according to Stargate Command, the other planets were populated with various peoples plucked from earth.
And I like how every planet populated by humans Stargate Command visits the people speak English. Ronin, Taila (spelling), the Janai (spelling) all speak English. Even the Jaffa speak English along with that jibberish they use when they want to sound mean and intimidating.
Strange that there's no need for the equivalent of a Star Trek universal translator.
Tek ma tay, Master G-Man. Indeed. Yeah, perhaps the Asgard taught them all English in hopes of declaring an intergalactic official language.
This thread really works out great with the book I'm currently reading - "Prelude to Foundation" by Isaac Asimov (THE MAN of Sci-Fi!!!). No "aliens", though. Just billions of humans on millions of planets. They have people with slanted eyes and yellowish skin called Easterners, dark-skinned people with kinky hair called Southerners, and white-skinned people called Westerners, but nobody knows why and they don't understand why nobody is called Northerners (uh, it's frozen). Yeah, they are WAY into the future an have no knowledge of earth (no by page 140 anyway). They are like over 20,000 years in the future - just a bunch of "Outworlders".
So now you are reading REAL Sci Fi written by The Master himself. Congratulations Young Padawan
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Indeed. Yeah, perhaps the Asgard taught them all English in hopes of declaring an intergalactic official language.
