Y’all ever think about how the “Darmok” episode was basically describing memes and reaction gifs; basically using shared cultural tropes — often in a visual format —that requires extensive cultural knowledge, rather than direct verbal articulation to have any significance?
Ever have to explain to your gram-gram what a “Chad” is or why that smiling face is drawn weird.
Beats the hell outta me how that culture managed to build a spaceship. Here on earth that kind of chatter just seems to make weebs and neo-Nazis.
edit: on the other hand, our own space program started off with a bunch of Nazis.
But on the third hand, they lost, and weren’t trying to build an ICBM using only lolcattes.