magistrate-of-mediocrity

thefuzzhead asked:

Brace yourself: Quark hosts a murder mystery dinner party for Odo! Garak, Julian, Miles, Vic, and a few others are there. All these holosuite nerds think they know exactly how the murder should be solved, but Quark designed it so Odo's method would be the one to find the answer first. It's subtle, and maybe he doesn't notice it right away, but it's a party that Odo had a good time with friends at but still felt in his element, so he's heart eyes at Quark for a week.

ds9shameblog answered:

!!!!

Except that Garak keeps criticizing the murderer’s methods as “inelegant” and “unimaginative.”

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Chewbacca… his arms open.

This is some NEXT LEVEL nerd-ing and I nearly cried reading it.

I don’t get it

Please explain ;_;

There is a star trek TNG episode where Picard encounters a race that doesn’t speak in actual structured sentences but conveys ideas through story parralels. The ones referenced here are “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” - cooperation, “Shaka, when the walls fell” - failure and Temba, his arms wide/open" - signifying a gift.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tamarian_language

isaacfhtagn

nice

OK, but here’s what’s awesome/hilarious about this.

The whole point about why communicating with the Tamarians was so frustrating was because all of their communication was contextual. The problem wasn’t that Picard couldn’t understand what words they were saying (the universal translator worked fine) the problem was that he didn’t understand what THOSE WORDS TOGETHER HAD TO DO WITH ANYTHING.

Why is this hilarious/fascinating to me? Because this is essentially what people are doing today with memes. They are posting pictures and writing sentences THAT MAKE NO SENSE WITHOUT PRIOR CONTEXT.

If Picard beamed down right now, and you told him that Data is a cinnamon roll… you are a Tamarian.