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[Paulbot]

I'm personally not a big fan of the Universal Translator... I would prefer it if non-human species just spoke their own languages with subtitles and folks just had to learn to be multilingual, like in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings etc. Heck... even humans have multiple languages! I find it difficult to imagine that the entire Vulcan or Klingon races would have just one language. In Middle Earth there are various different dialects of each language, e.g.: there are various kinds of Elvish tongues such as Quenya and Sindarin.

Okay - so even if one were to suspend disbelief and accept the notion of a circuit that conveniently translates languages... why would their lips move as if they're speaking English? Even the Star Trek Wiki entry on the Universal Translator states, "Were the device real, it would more likely have an effect similar to watching a movie dubbed into another language."

Yes it would look like a dubbed movie and in Enterprise (where the technology was new) we saw this. The people of the 24th Century probably learn major alien languages at school anyway.

As for your examples it would not be logical for the Vulcan's to have multiple dialects and the Klingon's are united under a line of Emperors who have probably enforced a single language on their people by force since Kahless.

If you can believe that Han Solo can understand the big bear* that's following him around I don't see why you can't handle this. *(How I Met Your Mother reference)

If you don't like Star Trek fine, but no need to keep complaining about it in a thread which is about Star Trek. Any more and it's trolling.