Difference between revisions of "User:NHSavage/Sandbox"

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
Jump to: navigation, search
(Transcript: line breaks)
(remove tempate to rprecent being in cat)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{comic
+
<-!{{comic
 
| number    = 902
 
| number    = 902
 
| date      = 23 May, 2011
 
| date      = 23 May, 2011
Line 6: Line 6:
 
| imagesize =  
 
| imagesize =  
 
| titletext = I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.
 
| titletext = I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.
}}
+
}}-->
  
 
==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==

Revision as of 18:59, 28 October 2012

<-!
Darmok and Jalad
I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.
Title text: I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.
-->

Explanation

This comic is a reference to the Star Trek episode "Darmok" in which Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew come upon a Tamarian ship and Tamarian planet in which they can translate the words, but because the language is based on metaphors, they cannot understand what the words mean. The famous line from the episode: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is parodied in the first frame of the comic.

Picard is eventually able to decipher the line to discover that it was a story of two warriors that work together to defeat a common foe. In the comic, the computer instead deciphers the "Darmok and Jalad at Kalenda's" phrase.

Transcript

[Captain Dathon is seen on a communications screen]

Alien: Darmok and Jalad at Kalenda's!
[Jean-Luc Picard and Deanna Troi stand next to each other, looking off to the right.]
Picard: Their language must be based on folklore and metaphor! Computer! Search cultural archives for Darmok-Jalad-Kalenda!
[Picard and Troi listen to the response]
Computer (off-panel): In Tamarian legend, Darmok and Jalad got totally wasted and hooked up at a party at Kalenda's.
[Dathon is seen on the communications screen again, winking]


comment.png add a comment! ⋅ comment.png add a topic (use sparingly)! ⋅ Icons-mini-action refresh blue.gif refresh comments!

Discussion

No comments yet!