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Empathetic: Welcoming the Enlightened Idiot
A child of five could understand this.Send someone to fetch a child of five.
—Groucho Marx
Captain Jean-Luc Picard has a tough job. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, one of my all-time favorite shows, Picard and his crew zip around the galaxy in the starship Enterprise, meeting aliens and saving the day, week after week in prime time.
In one of its most popular episodes, “Darmok,” our protagonists run into a ship from a thorny species known as the Tamarians, who have been notoriously impossible to communicate with. The sci-fi universal translators fail, and every time these lizard-looking creatures ...
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