Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, and Matthew Wrather tackle the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok” on the slenderest of pretexts, considering metaphor as a metaphor for metaphor, as a metaphor for all human communication and artistic endeavor, and as a metaphor for human unity and cultural difference. Nobody is more surprised than us when we stick the landing here.
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Further Reading
- “Darmok” (Wikipedia)
- One Trek Mind: Deciphering Darmok
- Lexicalism