This would explain how our VOY heroes in "Basics" can still speak with, say, Neelix (who knows no English while the heroes know no Talaxian) or with their Kazon captors, while being unable to learn the language of the local cavemen. This implant would then be boosted by external devices that add computing power and allow the deciphering of all-new languages (whereas the implant itself only handles known languages). That just plain wouldn't work in any context.īut the device could well intercept communications between the ear and the brain, and again between the brain and the mouth, and do the translating there. I never thought the device merely used a loudspeaker to insert an additional, translated voice to whatever the person was saying (and somehow damped out the original voice). Is there something I'm missing here about how the UT is supposed to work? This glaring issue really makes it hard for me to suspend belief and buy into this storyline. How, exactly, is this supposed to work?! Are we supposed to believe that the Romulans these two encounter don't think something is strange when these two "Romulans" speak in this strange, alien language and then a disembodied voice speaking Rihannsu comes up from nowhere?! I mean, it's not like the translation device suddenly gives them the ability to speak Rihannsu. I'm currently reading Enterprise: The Good That Men Do, and Trip and the other agent are impersonating Romulans. Then the character speaks in Federation Standard, which the alien hears, then the unit translates, which the alien also hears. Maybe the translation is sub-aural, maybe the alien actually hears the unit translating. Alien speaks, character waits for translation. Things get a little trickier with person-to-person contact but, I've always assumed it was something similar. In reverse, they speak in Federation Standard and that spoken language is then translated into whatever alien language is required and then broadcast to them. In the shows, and in books that I've read, it seems to me that it just translates language as it comes in and the characters hear the translation. OK, how does everyone envision the UT working?
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