Handwaving tech and physics is easy. I’m not touching linguistics, other than to say I don’t think you can explain it away. Languages are hard, even if by some magic all species everywhere have some common base, which I doubt.
I think in ToS Uhura knows a bunch of different languages and she’s like “this bit is similar to this language and this bit is similar to that language”.
I always thought that made some kind of sense.
Handwaving tech and physics is easy. I’m not touching linguistics, other than to say I don’t think you can explain it away. Languages are hard, even if by some magic all species everywhere have some common base, which I doubt.
I think in ToS Uhura knows a bunch of different languages and she’s like “this bit is similar to this language and this bit is similar to that language”. I always thought that made some kind of sense.
I’m sure the folks at r/DaystromInstitute would come up with all sorts of ludicrous explanations.