In 2267, Captain Kirk and Commander Spock of the USS Enterprise modified one to communicate with an alien known as the Companion, in the Gamma Canaris region. In 2267, the UT from a Class F shuttlecraft had a wand-like design. Owing to his language abilities, Commander Saru was able to affect repairs on the UT so the crew could understand each other and the ship's systems again. These included Klingon, Arabic, German, Welsh, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Andorian and Tau Cetian. A short time later, communications from a mysterious sphere caused the UT to malfunction, causing the individual crew members and ship's computer to be heard in a large number of languages and for the ship's displays to switch to a wide variety of written languages. In 2257, the universal translator onboard the USS Discovery still had occasional difficulty with translating the Saurian Linus's language in to Federation Standard. Universal translators were also built into the communications systems of most starships, including shuttlecraft. In 2257, Burnham explained to Siranna that the universal translator in her communicator was programmed with more than 1,000 languages, including the Kelpien language. Starbase Yorktown had a universal translator in the command center that was used to interpret Kalara's plea for help in 2263 of the alternate reality. When she revealed herself using the translator to speak in Klingonese, Kol dismissed the technology as another attempt by the Federation to subsume the Klingon identity Burnham instead explained that its purpose was to enable communication and allow the two species to come to peaceful terms. In 2256, Michael Burnham used the universal translator in her communicator aboard the Klingon Sarcophagus ship to eavesdrop on the orders of its commander, Kol. When Lieutenant Philippa Georgiou made first contact with Saru, a Kelpien, she displayed her communicator – making it possible for the two to understand each other. ( ENT: " Demons")Ī Starfleet communicator's universal translator at work in 2256īy the 2230s, universal translators were fully incorporated directly into Starfleet communicators, directing translated audio at the recipient in the speaker's voice. ( ENT: " Civilization") By 2155, Ensign Sato's work on universal translator technology had made it possible for small translators to be clipped onto clothing, translating a variety of languages at once, allowing the conference discussing the Coalition of Planets to occur live in real time, without in-person or networked translators among delegates. Without the attachment, Starfleet communicators were still capable of translating preprogrammed languages, such as Akaali when Enterprise visited their world. Though not mentioned, the Vulcans had presumably developed similar technology, without the need for a visible device, by T'Mir and Mestral's mission to Earth in 1957. Sato also created the linguacode translation matrix in order to anticipate and speed up the translation of new and unknown languages. ( ENT: " Sleeping Dogs", " Vox Sola")Ī new language could quickly be translated in person-to-person encounters by having one speak his or her language until the universal translator gathered enough data to build a translation matrix. ( ENT: " Precious Cargo")ĭespite its being able to translate alien languages in relatively short order, due to the UT's experimental nature, the use of a skilled linguist – in Enterprise's case, Hoshi Sato – was still required, notably in situations where reading alien languages on the control panels, hatches, and displays were involved. ( ENT: " Broken Bow") The actual universal translator, which was used for deciphering unknown languages on the fly, was a handheld device with a keypad and display to which a communicator could attach at the top. On Earth, the universal translator was invented shortly before 2151, and was still experimental at the time of the launch of Enterprise NX-01. An early Starfleet universal translator in 2151
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