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"32!"   "Hmm?" "This is the thirty-second planet I've set foot on!"   "248!"                 - Malcolm Reed and Phlox, after getting out of the shuttlepod on Mars. ("Terra Prime") More or less since the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Terra Prime " aired in 2005, I've intended to go back and count those up to see how many planets it is suggested that tactical officer Lt. Malcolm Reed set foot on off-screen. (Spoiler: It's 12.) Note that other than Earth and Mars, these numbers are for my counting and while they may be in the right order, there may be some between those listed that didn't happen during episodes. Season One (2151) 1. Earth   -  Based on the phrasing, I'm counting Earth by default. 2. Rigel X ("Broken Bow") 3. Archer IV ("Strange New World") Terra Nova Colony 4. Terra Nova ("Terra Nova") 5. P'Jem ("The Andorian Incident") - No...

The universal translator is one of Star Trek's greatest thematic devices, used to explain why all the aliens seem to speak English . Like many Star Trek inventions, we're inching closer and closer to a universal translator (for known, Earth languages) being a reality - even if it doesn't somehow change the speaker's lip movements. In the Star Trek: Discovery second season episode " An Obol for Charon ," the universal translator malfunctions translating the crew's spoken English into what I've liked to call "a chaotic cacophony" akin to the Tower of Babel; the crew can't understand each other or their consoles. (You can watch the scene over at YouTube  or below.) Since the episode aired, I've looked for someone to have translated the scene -- but to my surprise, no one has, so in addition to the edits I've made over at Memory Alpha , here is the scene as I've been able to put it together. Burnham: qav...