darmok

Explore "darmok" with insightful episodes like "Fwd, Fwd, High Punch (ENT S2 : E13)", "TNG "Silicon Avatar"", "TNG "Darmok"", "Sonderfolge: Der Universalübersetzer (mit Dancing Vulcan)" and "BT 21: Enemy Mine and Darmok" from podcasts like ""V'Ger Please!", "It's All Been Trekked Before", "It's All Been Trekked Before", "Discovery Panel - Discover Star Trek" and "BackTrekking"" and more!

Episodes (12)

Fwd, Fwd, High Punch (ENT S2 : E13)

Ever wanted to see "Darmok", but absent the interesting plot device? How about "The Enemy" but just boring? Good news, we are reviewing "Dawn"! Trip takes his shirt off and is stranded on a planet (again) and fights Reptile before discovering the power of Friendship.

enDecember 08, 2022

TNG "Silicon Avatar"

It's All Been Trekked Before #260
Season 10, Episode 4
Star Trek: The Next Generation #5.04 "Silicon Avatar"

Keith is fascinated by the creature, and all three hosts have different nicknames for it by the end of the episode.

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It's All Been Trekked Before

enApril 14, 2022

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TNG "Darmok"

It's All Been Trekked Before #258
Season 10, Episode 2
Star Trek: The Next Generation #5.02 "Darmok"

Keith defends this classic episode from Stephen and Jimmy-Jerome’s skepticism, who are more excited about the guest stars.

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It's All Been Trekked Before

enMarch 31, 2022

Sonderfolge: Der Universalübersetzer (mit Dancing Vulcan)

Der Universalübersetzer und seine Probleme: Ein Thema, welches uns einfach nicht loslässt. Um so schöner, dass wir heute mit "Dancing Vulcan" (@erdbeerchen73) eine Gästin auf dem Panel begrüßen können, die uns alles noch mal ganz genau erklärt! #StarTrek #StarTrekPodcast #Podcast

Discovery Panel - Discover Star Trek

deJune 14, 2021

BT 21: Enemy Mine and Darmok

BackTrekking returns again to look back at the real-world inspirations of classic Trek episodes!

Some episodes of Trek are so iconic, they define what a generation considers to be "Star Trek". TOS had "The Trouble With Tribbles", "The Naked Time", "Arena", and more. TNG has "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Measure of a Man", "The Inner Light", and of course "Darmok".

"Darmok" features an alien race that communicates by cultural allusion who kidnap Captain Picard to a desert planet where he must partake in a symbolic hunting ritual to further the comity of their two species. Let's see Battlestar Galactica do that. Plus, it's quintessentially TNG; if Captain Kirk had to fight an electric triceratops, he'd have drop-kicked it on arrival and then lectured Paul Winfield about respecting the Federation's sovereignty. This is a plot that could only work with Jean-Luc Picard in the lead, throwing himself fully into trying to comprehend the incomprehensible, because it would mean a net gain of understanding in the universe. Hilariously, his mission to understand Dathon and the Children of Tama nearly fails at the outset simply because he refuses a proferred knife, assuming it to be a token of hostility. Classic JL.

"Darmok" may be one of the most famous examples of the classic "man and blank are stranded together and must ally or perish", but there's another nearly forgotten version of the tale that contains just as much warmth and optimism as Trek's take. "Enemy Mine" is a nearly forgotten film and, at first glance, it's not hard to see why: outdated special effects, corny dialogue, and a climax lifted straight out of an '80s action film. But, what promises to be a clash between stellar enemies becomes a tale of survival, friendship, and family, where our heroes must overcome not only linguistic separation but biology and societal programming, as well. Just keep Mickey Mouse's name out your mouth.

On this episode, we talk about the inconvenient persistence of tribalism, the misleading marketing campaign behind Enemy Mine and the film's troubled production, Louis Gossett Jr.'s skill in bringing Jerry to life, the peerless talents of Patrick Stewart and Paul Winfield, the complications of the Tamarian language, the film's surprisingly progressive take on intersexuality, and the importance of history and myth in bringing people together. We also discuss Robert Duncan McNeill's unrealized movie stardom, Dennis Quaid as the Chris Pratt of the '80s, glass bubble-based technology, magical negro aliens, googling "darmok", the point of an XO, autotune for words, a little Picard talk, a quick Pop-In(tm), Kal tells his Paul Winfield story, and our dice are trying to kill the show!

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enFebruary 07, 2020

TrekFavorites 005: TNG's "Darmok" with Joe Kissell

One of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s most revered episodes is Darmok, S05E02, so it came as no surprise that Joe Kissell picked it as one of his TrekFavorites. What we didn’t see coming was the deep and personal connection Joe has with this episode, and why he feels it depicts the challenge of communication in a surprisingly realistic way. Joe Kissell is the publisher of Take Control ebooks, as well as the author of over 60 books on a wide variety of tech topics. Keep up with him if you can on his personal site, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter.

enAugust 07, 2019

Star Trek the Next Generation - Darmok

The Federation have been trying without success over the course of 100 years to establish relations with the Children of Tamar, a truly strange civilization of people who communicate through metaphor and imagery. Captain Picard is hopeful that the crew of the Enterprise will finally make progress and decipher their strange and complex language, but things get complicated when the Tamarian Captain beams them both down to a planet where they have to hunt an invisible beast.

Starfleet Boy - A Star Trek Podcast

enJuly 07, 2018

84: Meta-Metaphoric

TNG Season 5 - Essential Trek Philosophy.

In this episode of Meta Treks, hosts Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling compare their top picks for Essential Trek Philosophy from season 5 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. From transhumanism and a positive spin on genetic engineering in "The Masterpiece Society" to the philosophy of language and an exploration of non-referential language in "Darmok," season five contains some of the philosophically richest episodes in all of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Mike and Zachary also discuss Kantian ethics versus consequentialism in "I, Borg" and medical ethics in the aptly named episode "Ethics," in addition to the unique explorations of the metaphysics of time and the ethics of time travel in "Cause and Effect" and "A Matter of Time."

Chapters
Intro (00:01:20)
The Masterpiece Society (00:06:15)
Darmok (00:20:03)
I, Borg (00:47:31)
Cause and Effect (00:55:37)
A Matter of Time (01:01:39)
Conundrum (01:06:59)
Ethics (01:10:33)
Closing (01:20:43)

Hosts
Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling

Production
Mike Morrison (Editor) Zachary Fruhling (Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Patrick Devlin (Associate Producer) Kay Shaw (Associate Producer) Mark Walker (Associate Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)

Meta Treks: A Star Trek Philosophy Podcast

enMarch 21, 2018

58: Trans-Dimensional Slices

Dimensions.

Reflecting on dimensions has a long history in popular culture, from the geometrically minded satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott to the 1937 film The Fourth Dimension by director Jean Painleve. But how is the relationship between different dimensions explored in the Star Trek universe? From a plane of two-dimensional beings in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Loss," to higher-dimensional beings like members of the Q continuum with their ability to pop in and out of three-dimensional space at will, Star Trek is replete with examples of dimensional interplay.

In this episode of Meta Treks, hosts Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling are joined by Trek.fm Patreon manager and host of Melodic Treks and Warp Five, Brandon-Shea Mutala, to discuss the physics, the philosophy, and the geometry of dimensions in the Star Trek universe.

Chapters
Welcome to Episode 58 (00:01:09)
Introducing Brandon-Shea Mutala and Patreon (00:01:58)
Flatland and The Fourth Dimension (00:15:26)
Time as a Dimension vs. Higher Spatial Dimensions (00:18:46)
Lower-Dimensional and Higher-Dimensional Beings (00:21:01)
Bending Space - Warp Drive and Wormholes (00:30:28)
Higher-Dimensions and Omniscience (00:43:20)
Slices of Cheese - Alternate Three-Dimensional Realms (00:45:51)
Four-Dimensionalism and Wormhole Aliens (00:50:23)
The Motion Picture and Visualizing Dimensional Slices (00:57:28)
Fluidic Space - A Different Kind of Cheese (00:59:07)
Captain Proton and The Fifth Dimension (01:03:12)
Dimensions in Theoretical Physics - String Theory (01:04:46)
The Paranormal and Pseudoscience (01:08:26)
From Theoretical Physics to Experimental Physics (01:12:14)
Dimensions, Transporters, and Personal Identity (01:14:06)
The Mathematics of Higher Dimensions (01:16:57)
Final Thoughts (01:18:14)

Hosts
Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling

Guest
Brandon-Shea Mutala

Production
Mike Morrison (Editor) Zachary Fruhling (Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Patrick Devlin (Associate Producer) Kay Shaw (Associate Producer) Norman Lao (Associate Producer) Kit Loffstadt (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager) Brandon-Shea Mutala (Patreon Manager)

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enFebruary 13, 2017

Season 2, Episode 1: "Darmok" (TNG) with Alan Gratz

Enterprising Individuals is back for an all-new season of missions! First up, we explore the vagaries of first contact with the quintessential Next Generation episode, Darmok! Join us for a look at this inside-baseball show, as we talk the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, firing your wife as your âagentâ, just how exactly Tamarian kids learn their language without the help of Memory Alpha, and whether or not the Children of Tama are Space 4chan! Plus, we discuss Data getting counseling, the importance of your Wire DVDs in intergalactic cultural exchange, and we feature the first guest commentator to nail a 25 word synopsis EXACTLY!

Alanâs work is available on Amazon and check out his website at www.alangratz.com!

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Enterprising Individuals

enFebruary 02, 2017

50: Double Dilithium on You

Logical Positivism.

What separates meaningful language from non-meaningful language, genuine science from pseudo-science, and productive philosophy from unproductive philosophy? In the early 20th century, a philosophical movement known as "logical positivism" attempted to specify criteria that could be used to demarcate meaningful language from non-meaningful language. These logical positivists, such as Rudolf Carnap and A.J. Ayer, claimed that only empirically verifiable statements are meaningful, and that any language not empirically verifiable is literally meaningless.

In this 50th episode of Meta Treks, hosts Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling examine the claims of logical positivism through the lens of Star Trek. From the story-based use of language in the TNG episode "Darmok" to the many possible uses of the word "dilithium," Mike and Zachary offer a Star Trek based critique of logical positivism inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's account of the meaningfulness of language as its use in various context-dependent "language games."

Chapters
Welcome to Episode 50 (00:01:07)
Separating Science from Pseudoscience - Only Empirically Verifiable Statements are Meaningful (00:03:29)
"Turkey Hot" - Replicators and Reference (00:07:46)
"Dilithium!" - Wittgenstein and Meaning-as-Use (00:10:23)
Empiricism - Do We Have Direct Sensory Access to the External World? (00:20:34)
"Minuet!" - Holograms and Reference (00:31:17)
"Shaka, When the Walls Fell" - The Meaningfulness of Non-Referential or Mythological Language (00:36:59)
ENT "Strange New World" - Hallucinatory Experience and Rock Creatures (00:47:22)
TNG "The Ensigns of Command" - Cup? Glass? Liquid? Clear? Brown? Hot? (00:55:11)
Language Games (00:59:59)
Final Thoughts (01:08:00)

Hosts
Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling

Production
Mike Morrison (Editor and Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Charlynn Schmiedt (Executive Producer) Patrick Devlin (Associate Producer) Kay Shaw (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager)

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Meta Treks: A Star Trek Philosophy Podcast

enNovember 28, 2016

25: Menosky Uncut

Darmok Commentary.

Before joining the writing staff of Star Trek: Discovery, Joe Menosky wrote 67 episodes of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Perhaps the most beloved of those is "Darmok." The episode, from TNG Season 5, is about Picard's attempt to communicate with the captain of an alien species which speaks only in metaphor.

In this episode of Stage Nine, Mike and John record an audio commentary for "Darmok." We discuss how the episode is representative of Menosky's style, how it holds up on repeated viewings, and how awesome Picard's new jacket is.

Chapters
Intro (00:00:00)
Commentary (00:02:41)
Closing (00:49:03)

Hosts
Mike Schindler and John Mills

Production
Mike Schindler (Editor and Producer) C Bryan Jones (Executive Producer) Charlynn Schmiedt (Executive Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer) Ken Tripp (Executive Producer) Norman C. Lao (Associate Producer) Jeff Sutter (Associate Producer) Chris Stenftenagel (Associate Producer) Richard Marquez (Production Manager)

Stage Nine: A Podcast about the People Who Make Star Trek

enNovember 25, 2016