To boldly go under the sea

Everybody's linking to this rather gorgeous footage of a remote controlled Starship Enterprise (circa Star Trek: The Motion Picture) gracefully soaring along at the bottom of a swimming pool. It's absolutely mesmerizing.

But this clip, featuring the USS Voyager encountering the Millennium Falcon in fluidic space, also deserves some attention. They look like two undersea creatures doing an elaborate mating dance.

What I want to know is, if Voyager contacts the Falcon, will Voyager's universal translator actually translate what Chewbacca says, so it sounds like he's speaking Federation Standard English? (Something tells me that Chewbacca isn't a great conversationalist. Most of his dialogue in the original trilogy probably consists of variations on the phrase, "Uh-oh! This is scary! Let's get outta here!" Plus the occasional, "Oh no, something just exploded!")


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