"Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > "Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> > > Along the same geocentric theme, Worf once welcomed a Klingon crew to the 24th
> > > century.  What would "24th century" mean to a Klingon?  Or does the universal
> > > translator take care of that?
> >
> > A klingon who was raised by humans, on earth, and spent most of his life amongst
> > humans... a better question would be what would "24th century" mean to any
> > federation citizen, given that they use a different calendar :)
>
> Yes, but he was speaking to Klingons who weren't even members of a San
> Francisco-based federation.  Don't they have multicultural sensitivity training
> at Starfleet?

Definitely not in Kirk's time! To be fair, it's difficult to see how worf would
make this mistake - he was always depicted as embracing his klingon heritage
with gusto to make up for his human upbringing.

Maybe the "24th century" line was supposed to have been universally translated
for the audience?

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