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Name: Odwer A. Myrox

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Point of Origin The biggest city in Finland.

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Why do I do this: I love Star Trek and writing. What better way to combine them: Share my knowledge!

My favourite character: Data

My favourite ship class: Constitution Refit

My favourite quote: "Time is a fire nin which be burn", by Tolian Soran.

My slogan: "Increase phase variation rate on the auxiliary power conversion matrix!"

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[edit] Star Trek Episode Title Translations

In Finland (Surprise, Surprise, my home country) all TV programs are subtitled. Recently I bought a Star Trek Special edition of a local scifi-fantasy magazine “Portti” (The Gate). Included was a list of TOS and TNG episodes broadcasted in Finland, along with their translated episode names. Some of them (most) are nearly hilarious. Down below are my personal “reverse translations” for the Finnish titles in English. I’ve left out those with direct translations. Many of the translations here are quite sensible if you ksanow the context from the episode, but some are just incredibly silly. Enjoy!

TOS

(Translated in 1974)

• “Where No Man Has Gone Before” - “A Strange Phenomenon”
• “The Corbomite Maneuver” - “A Strange Cube”
• “The Squire of Gothos” – “A Visit to Planet Gothos”
• “The Enemy Within” – “The Double”
• “Shore Leave” – “The Planet of Wonders”
• “Elaan of Troyius” – “The Power of Tears”

(Between 1987-1989. A couple of them are same, but with different translations.)

• “The Corbomite Maneuver” – “The Corbomite Diversion”
• “The Man Trap” – “A Cunning Trap”
• “The Menagerie” – “The Signs of Destruction”
• “Shore Leave” – “On a Holiday”
• “Space Seed” – “In Storage” (!)
• “This Side of Paradise” – “One Half Paradise”
• “The City on the Edge of Forever” – “From One Border to Another”
• “Catspaw” – “The Black Cat”
• “The Omega Glory” – “Encounters”
• “All Our Yesterdays”- “The Shadows of Yesterday”
• “Amok Time” – “In Other Worlds” (literally, could also mean “disoriented”)
• “Mirror, Mirror” – “Reflections”
• “The Ultimate Computer “ – “The Functional Computer” (!!!!!)
• “The Immunity Syndrome” – “Strange Symptoms”
• “By Any Other Name” – “Only One Name”
• “Patterns of Force” – “A Show of Power”
• “Spectre of the Gun” – “Ghost Business”
• “The Enterprise Incident” – “Tight Strings” (This was a hard one!)
• “And The Children Shall Lead” – “Children As a Clue”
• “Is There Truth In No Beauty?” – “Truth Makes You Beautiful”
• “The Empath” – “Danger in the Wake”
• “For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky” – “The Evil Priestess”
• “That Which Survives” – “Survival Exercises”
• “Whom Gods Destroy” – “Doomed”
• “The Cloud Miners” – “In The Clouds”
• “The Savage Curtain” – “The Curtain Opens”
• “The Lights of Zetar” – “Light Phenomena”
• “A Piece of the Action “ – “Action” ( Completely misunderstand the idiom)

As a funny note, the last episode broadcast was “The Cage.”

The Animated Series

• “More Tribbles, More Troubles” – “More Softies, More Troubles”
• “Time Trap” – “Time Goes On”
• “Slaver Weapon” – “Strange Weapons”
• “The Ambergis Element” – “Flooded”
• “The Eye of the Beholder” – “Observation”
• “Practical Joker” – “The Joker At Business” (Joker seen as a person.)
• “Once Upon A Planet” – “Like In The Old Times”
• “The Infinite Vulcan” – “The Tentacles Of Horror”

TNG

• “Encounter At Farpoint” – “Encounter At Space”
• “The Naked Now” – “The Naked Moment”
• “Code of Honor” – “A Matter of Honor”
• “Haven” – “The Port of Happiness”
• “Hide and Q” – “Hide and seek”
• “Angel One” – “Angel One” (“Angel” is literally an “Angel here” (as sent by God)
• “Home Soil” – “A Life Form”
• “When the Bough Breaks” – “Children of Space”
• “Coming of Age” – “The Maturity Test”
• “Skin of Evil” – “The Surface of Evil”
• “We’ll Always Have Paris” – “The Paris In Our Memories”
• “Where Silence Has Lease” – “A Place Without Characteristics”
• “The Outrageous Okona” – “The Ladies’ Man”
• “Loud As a Whisper” – “The Mute Mediator”
• “The Measure Of A Man” – “A Human Right”
• “The Dauphin” –“ The Crown princess”
• “Time Squared” – “Two Captains”
• “ Q Who” – “At The Borg’s Mercy”
• “Samaritan Snare” – “The Hostage”
• “Up The Long Ladder” – “The Tribe Of Clones” (!)
• “The Emissary” – “The Negotiator”
• “The Ensigns Of Command” – “Human’s Planet”
• “The Price” – “The Price of Love”
• “The High Ground” – “Rebels of Space”
• “Deja Q” – “The Old Scoundrel”
• “A Matter Of Perspective” – “The Personal Viewpoint”
• “Allegiance” – “The Double”
• “The Most Toys” – “The Collector”
• “Sarek” – “The Ambassador”
• “Hollow Pursuits” – “The Engineer’s Nightmare” (!)
• “Menage A Troi” – “The Mother’s Visit”
• “The Best Of Both Worlds” – “The Best Of Worlds”
• “Suddenly Human” – “The Human Factors”
• “Family” – “One Big Family”
• “Remember Me” – “As Ashes Before The Wind”
• “Legacy” – “A Valuable Teaching”
• “Future Imperfect” – “Blank Memory”
• “The Wounded” – “Old Wounds”
• “Galaxy’s Child” – “The Orphan”
• “Identity Crisis” – “Transformations”
• “The Ninth Degree” – “Transformation”
• “Qpid” – “My Loved One”

[edit] Something to say about Star Trek:Nemesis

After watching the latest Trek movie I was often struck with an odd sense of familiarity. Why? After watching it a couple more times I realized that there were numerous similarities with other Trek movies in terms of plot devices and even some scenes. I quite enjoyed the movie, anyway, and don't want to bash it. These are simply some of my personal observations.

• Shinzon is quite surprisingly very similar with Rua'fo in "Insurrection". Both men were in need of something to restore their health (Shinzon needed Picard's DNA and Rua'fo wanted to collect the metaphasic particles from the Ba'ku planet's rings.) They both also had ships built for special purposes. Shinzon has the Thalaron emitter and Rua'fo had the collector ship.

• A cloaked vessel can fire while being cloaked. There was already one in "Undiscovered Country". Also, both ships were tracked down by using non-conventional means. (Enterprise'A's gas-sensing torpedo and Troi's telepathic abilites.)

• Picard goes "Rambo" to defeat the main villain. This has happened in all TNG movies. The largest similarity is with the end struggle of "Insurrection" where Picard is, incidentally, onboard a huge enemy ship that is about to kill a large number of people with a special weapon/device. Picard is also saved in the last possible moment by the transporter.

• A main character (Data) dies after saving the crew by conducting a suicide mission. Spock did the same in "The Wrath of Khan". Also, both characters had their memories stored into another being. (Still a bit unsure about B-4.)

• Picard and Data discuss the situation at hand and their personal problems at the Stellar Cartography.

• Troi crashes the ship.

• Desert planet. Not including "First Contact" and "Insurrection", all other Trek movie have had a planet with a desert environment. (In "Undiscovered Country" it was an ice planet, and "Final Frontier" even had two!)

• A dinner with the main villain. Picard dines with Shinzon and in "Undiscovered Country" the entire command crew

had a dinner with the Klingons.

• A major non-Federation power is in turmoil. Another similarity to "Undiscovered Country".

• Enterprise damaged by a surprise attack. Shinzon fires to the ship while cloaked and the Enterprise-D was nearly crippled when the Duras sisters bombed her with their shield-piercing torpedoes.