The microbes sometimes fail to properly translate slang, translating it literal meaning. This does not enable the injected person to speak other languages, they continue to speak in their own language and are merely understood by others as long as they possess the microbes. The microbes colonize at brain stem and translate for the host anything spoken to him/her/it, and, then passing along the translated information to the host's brain.
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On the TV show Farscape John Crichton is injected with a conceivable bacteria, called translator microbes, which functions as standard (likely de facto) form a Universal Translator. None of these systems appears able to function reliably when the Doctor is incapacitated. The TARDIS, and by extension a number of its major systems, including the translator, are telepathically linked to its pilot, The Doctor. This system has frequently been featured as a main part of the show. speaking the appropriate dialect of Latin when in ancient Rome). Using a telepathic field, the TARDIS automatically translates most comprehensible languages (written and spoken) into a language understood by its pilot and each of the crew members The field also translates what they say into a language appropriate for that time and location (i.e. The existence of a universal translator is sometimes problematic in film and television productions from a logical perspective (for example, aliens who still speak English when no universal translator is in evidence and all characters appear to hear the appropriately translated speech instead of the original speech, the ability to speak in the language when direct translation is possible), and requires some suspension of disbelief when characters' mouths move in sync with the translated words and not the original language nonetheless, it removes the need for cumbersome and potentially extensive subtitles, and it eliminates the rather unlikely supposition that every other race in the galaxy has gone to the trouble of learning English. Some writers seek greater plausibility by instead having computer translation that requires collecting a database of the new language, often by listening to radio transmissions. 2.5 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyĪs a rule, a universal translator is instantaneous, but if that language has never been recorded, there is sometimes a time delay until the translator can properly work out a translation, as in the case of Star Trek.See machine translation and speech recognition for discussions of real-world natural language processing technologies. While a universal translator seems unlikely, due to the apparent need for telepathy, scientists continue to work towards similar real-world technologies involving small numbers of known languages.
Occasionally, alien races are able to extrapolate the rules of English from very little speech and then immediately be fluent in it, making the translator unnecessary. To translate a new language in every episode when a new species or culture is encountered would consume time (especially when most of these shows have a half-hour or one-hour format) normally allotted for plot development and would potentially, across many episodes, become repetitive to the point of annoyance. As a convention, it is used to remove the problem of translating between alien languages, unless that problem is essential to the plot. Like hyperdrive, a universal translator is a somewhat improbable technology that is an accepted convention in science fiction stories and serves as a useful plot device.
Its purpose is to offer an instant translation of any language. The universal translator is a fictional device common to many science fiction works, especially on television.
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