[geeks] Best ST:TNG episode...

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Wed Feb 13 23:04:12 CST 2002


> I'm watching my favorite ST:TNG episode off of the TiVo: "Darmok".  I 
> never realized that Paul Winfield played the alien captain.  Damn, he 
> can act.

The whole "speaking in metaphor" idea bugged me.  How did they
develop the words they needed to speak that way, and how many
people die each year because they can't just yell "DUCK!" instead
of saying "when BillyBob lost hold of the rope holding up the
piano"?
-- 
Eric Dittman
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