Temba, his arms wide!

We have a new episode of Casual Trek for you and it’s about language, no, not naughty language, although we’re both British so we’re VERY good at that. We’re talking about times where language and communication have been important Trekian themes! First, everyone on Deep Space Nine is talking gibberish instead of Technobabble in ‘Babel’ while in Strange New Worlds, Uhura’s first away mission goes horribly awry when she has to communicate with the ‘Children of the Comet’ and finally, we deal with one of The Next Generation’s best episodes as we try and find out just who is Darmok and why was he at Tanagra in ‘Darmok.’ Temba, at rest! Episodes Discussed: Babel (09:42), Children of the Comet (31:17) and Darmok (52:57)Talking Points Include: Catch-22, Sakamoto Days and the slow weebification of Charlie, Love Hurts, Sean Austin, is this Chief O’Brien’s first worst day, Babel originally being a TNG script and how it would not have been as fun, the Odo/Quark dynamic, Kira having no time for BS, how irritating it must be to play a Vulcan sometimes, Sam Kirk is not this show’s Kenny, does Strange New Worlds disregard Roddenberry’s attitude to God? Uhura and Spock being friends, Miles misses Hemmer, when Spock thinks you ****ed up… you ****ed up! Troi’s rather slim resume, Miles suffers the Darmok problem with UK-Specific references in the US, ‘Darmok’ might be Star Trek’s clearest descent into allegory, How ‘Darmok’ inspired the scariest episode of Doctor Who, Picard’s new jacket, Pedant’s Corner: The Chuckle Brothers were a slapstick comedy duo popular on British children’s telly. To me. To you. Rolf Harris was also a popular children’s entertainer on British TV… until he was convicted on many charges of SA towards minors.Miles guesting on Famicom Dojo as Sean plays ‘Out of This World.’ https://www.youtube.com/live/Ucv-hoyVmPU?si=hx_tb9k9qVCqZBMr