• 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    2 months ago

    I’ve thought about this before, especially when the crew is visiting pre-warp / pre-universal translator societies. At least when it’s someone like the Klingons you can really stretch and try to justify it with something like, “maybe there are a lot of different languages lumped under Klingon, so everyone is using translators all the time anyway.”

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      2 months ago

      This makes sense. Another theory is O’Brien’s character had a speech impediment related injury gained during whatever action won him his award.