TenForward, when the memes dropped.
Or Data just opens his mouth and makes sounds like the digital noise you heard on the phone line when a fax was coming through or someone was using a dialup internet connection
I hate when Data breaks like that. If more than two people knew where his reset switch was it wouldn't be such a problem. Last away mission we had to deal with him intermittently doing this:
Reminds me of that time Troi is discussing language in the ready-room with the captain, and suddenly uses some non-english word(s) for a cup... it always makes me think: why wouldn't the universal translator just translate those words too?
Maybe the universal translator understands context and the intended meaning. The intended meaning was non-english so translating wouldn't make sense.
This is a good Daystrom question: Did Dr. Soong speak Terran?
In the event the universal translator broke, Data would have to interpret for everyone.
He's fluent in over 6 million forms of communication.
A protocol android?
beep boop beep
And now this makes me wonder about T-V distinction in Starfleet. I'm sure there are regulations for that and Picard being the captain, kind of gives him the "right" to tutoyer everyone on the ship while still needing to vouvoyer admirals.
Weirdly my native language is French but I have always only seen Star Trek in English so I don't know how they dub it. Somehow I would have thought that everyone would be formal, polite and use vous, but maybe the captain can say tu to other people. Or he's very friendly with Riker.
My theory is that France got it bad during WW3, and many of the survivors relocated to the UK until the fallout could be cleaned up, which is why Jean-Luc Picard sounds like that.
The real reason is much funnier.
I'm German. Everyone on board the enterprise Siezes each other, except for romantic partners and Q.
As a person with French as their first language, I make a face whenever JLP speaks French... I always find it a weird choice when they have non-English characters on shows in English but don't use actors of that origin...
It would be the height of humor for the universal translator to break and have Jean Luc speaking perfect French in the most British possible accent.
it's a feature, not a bug
TNG creators: have an excellent british actor
also TNG creators: make his role french
Other countries do the same thing. I was watching a colombian telenovela once that had an "american" cia agent. The guy spoke english in the thickest most broken accent. He was 100% colombian as you could tell when he spoke spanish. I think they just grabbed the first guy that could read the english words and "looked" american.
Oh for sure it's not exclusive to English media, but English studios being as big as they are, there really isn't any justification not to hire an actor that actually fits the ethnicity of the character...
Instead you've got Latin Americans and people from the middle East playing any characters with brown skin, black people playing any black character, any red head playing any Irish characters, all of them with a bad accent for the character...
And I'm not criticizing Patrick Stewart here! But I find it even funnier considering that there are other characters in Star Trek that have an accent fitting their origin, like Chekov (and they are least hired an actor whose parents were immigrants from the Soviet Union).
Guy can't pronounce his own name, ffs!
Excuse me. Troi is Riker's beard. I thought that was canon.
Discovery has that episode
