How good are you at identifying languages by their sounds? Out of thousands of languages spoken in the world, only 80 are in The Great Language Game. You will be given a snippet of speech, and you must select from two, three, or four choices. It starts out easy, but gets more difficult along the way. How much difference is there in several languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia, anyway? The first time around, I scored 450. That’s probably not particularly good; I don’t know. But the test is also good for training your ear to recognize languages. How do you do? -via Boing Boing
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Noise cancelling headphones really help, as does listening to the entire clip.
Nasty Vulcan characters? The series clearly depicted a social revolution on Vulcan that included a direct analogy of the gay rights movement in the 20th and 21st Century West. It was very clear that the social direction of Vulcan was moving toward what appeared in TOS. There's no inconsistency at all. The Enterprise writers told the backstory of Vulcan to viewers in the 2000s in a way that fit neatly into its predecessor made in the 1960s.
Yes, the last episode was a holodeck episode from TNG. A fan theory that the entire series was a holonovel is feasible. But dismissing the entire series as poorly-written . . . well, Trekkies are missing out on some great stories if they don't watch Enterprise, particularly in the final 2 seasons.
I've never seen a poorly written holodeck program, but there are more than a couple crappy holodeck stories. I've also never seen a holodeck program/story that didn't include one or more Enterprise crew members.