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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [qb]-Figuring a minefield can't have only two mines, Archer breaks out the quantum beacons still attached to the grappler arm (back in "Shockwave Part I"). Soon enough, they break through the cloak (already?! Yeesh!) and detect 'em.[/qb][/QUOTE]This is a little disconcerting... on the one hand, it forms the basis for a weak explanation of why the cloak was new in "Balance of Terror." Humans cracked the old cloak (eventually including the one on the ships), making it useless. On the other hand, we're looking at temporal contamination. Why hasn't Daniels retrieved all of the anachronistic paraphernalia yet? The only two asnwers I can think of are predestination and the possibility that quantum beacons would naturally be developed around this time, but [i]Enterprise[/i] got a leg up. They might be useless on other forms of cloak. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [qb]-They broadcast in Romulan, which Hoshi has to translate as the UT can't handle it. Huh? Given that the Romulans are off-shootish from the Vulcans, shouldn't their languages share at least a little commonalities? But I guess it's not THAT bad, since English/Latin is pretty different from almost any African language, and we're all on the same planet - there could be something like that working with the Romulans (not to mention thousands of years apart). Can anyone remember any Romulan language references in any TNG series?[/qb][/QUOTE]In "Unification," a Romulan boy has the syllabic nucleus of the Vulcan language on some toys, keeping it alive on Romulus. In any case, I'm taking linguistics this semester, and there are languages on Earth that linguists haven't yet figured out, or have only a rudimentary understanding of, after years of study. It's not unreasonable at all to have dramatically different languages after 2000 years of seperation. Two other possibilities: 1.) At the Time of Awakening, Vulcan didn't have one world-wide language. The Romulans were of one ethnic group or nation with a very unique language, and when they left, their modern language evolved from [i]that[/i], and not "Standard Vulcan." Also explains their high occurrence of forehead ridges. :) 2.) As in Diane Duane's novels, they designed their own language (as well as society) aboard their departing ships as a social protest of what they were leaving behind. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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