Talk:Darmok

message: In this episode, the phasers were fired from the front photon torpedo launcher instead of the phaser array.--BigMac1212 02:41, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing error

message: A direct English translation of "Shaka, when the walls fell" would be "Casey at the Bat"
Perhaps Captain Dathon (Actor: Paul Winfield) knew more about Earth history than we thought. Shaka was a real-life African Zulu chief who tried to protect his African kingdom from invading British colonists during the late 1800's, the years when Great Britain and many other European countries were on the rise to colonize Africa. Unfortunately, Shaka was not able to keep his kingdom from succumbing to international powers. In other words, he failed. That's where the Tamarian "word" for failure comes from: "Shaka [The Zulu Chief], when the walls fell [when his kingdom succumbed to the colonists]"''
:There's even a famous movie about Shaka, with the surprising title of "Shaka Zulu."
:maybe can be readded, if sourced -- Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 01:35, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exsizing from article temporarily. 

message: "A closer parallel in science fiction is the Ascian language in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, who once they reach adulthood speak only in quotes from their equivalent of Mao's Little Red Book." - the 'who' can only refer to 'language', which is of course incorrect. I don't know the book, so I cannot do the rewrite, but it should be something like "(...) is the (...) language spoken by X, who (...)" Jalwikip 08:54, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slight rewrite needed 

message: The trivia was deleted today, but i found it particularly useful.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.50.113 (talk) 20:02, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The deletion does seem a little heavy handed. These articles are at the light-weight end of Wikipedia - and the exhortations on trivia sections are not to remove but to integrate. There was some potential OR (meaning of phrases), but again, this is hardly controversial stuff. You could put it back if you think it is sensible and ask for a justification for it to be removed again. Spenny 17:10, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The lunatics are running the asylum. It was and still is too damned easy to delete things instead of improving. This was yet another prime example of editors deleting so called "Trivia" instead of cleaning it and presenting it as Production information. Nearly all of that information will need to be restored in due course as Production and background information. It does need to be properly verified and reliably sourced but there was nothing contentious there and it should have been improved not deleted. (Admittedly the list of Tamarian phrases that was deleted around the same time was not suitable for an encyclopedia and had to go, but editors added it in good faith trying to improve this article, and similarly in the long run it has been replaced with a section that includes more academic and encyclopedic discussion of "Tamarian use of language"). -- 109.78.204.113 (talk) 12:20, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: There seems to be a problem with the external link to the Memory Alpha page — instead of going there, it goes to the page on Memory Beta.  But I checked the link itself, and it seems to be correct.  Any ideas how to fix it?  --MicahBrwn (talk) 23:14, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memory Alpha link 

message: The synopsis starts talking about something to be done to the "scattering field", but didn't say anything was wrong in the first place. --Lo'oris (talk) 12:01, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scattering field 

message: Piller saw Dances with Wolves and asked the writers to come up with something. Interview Joe Menosky Star Trek the Magazine 8 Collector's Edition 2 of 2.  -- 109.78.206.86 (talk) 00:36, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dances with Wolves 

message: Shaka, when the walls fell - the first moment of true harmony Dyxtan (talk) 05:27, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idea for a concept