[geeks] Best ST:TNG episode...

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 09:38 , Eric Dittman wrote:

> It was radically different, but I thought it was implausible.

I don't know about that.  After all, deaf-mutes can learn to read lips 
and write, yet they do not share our frame of reference.  "A loud bang" 
means nothing to them - they can understand it from a philosophical 
sense, but not from a common root.

Hellen Keller was an amazing person.  Deaf, dumb, and blind, yet she 
still learned to communicate with the rest of us by first learning 
symbolic association.  But, how do you explain the concept of the 
rainbow to her?  Or even more abstract ideas, like freedom and justice?

I don't see metaphorical communications as being out of the realm of 
possibility.  I applaud the writers for thinking in an unconventional 
way.

-pete