All right. Switching gears to fiction-writing, after some tedious administrivia this afternoon, carried forward from yesterday's ridiculous 3-hour meeting & debrief.
What is your LEAST favourite sci-fi trope? Bonus points if it's something that gets done to death on #StarTrek!
@MLClark Universal translators. I understand the need for them from a plot point of view, but they always seem like a cheat. Or why "Darmok" is one of the TNG episodes that sticks with me.
@MLClark Incidentally, I kind of like the Babel Fish solution: translation can be messy and uncomfortable, and that leans into this aspect.