Lorry<p>Hey <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trekkies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trekkies</span></a> (or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trekkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trekkers</span></a>)...</p><p>In Star Trek, why doesn&#39;t the Universal Translator translate people who are talking in their own language so that people don&#39;t know what they are saying?</p><p>This seems to happen a lot with Klingons when they want to insult humans, and there&#39;s always someone who says &quot;I didn&#39;t know you spoke Klingon&quot; or replies back in Klingon.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StarTrek</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Question" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Question</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IDarentAskQuora" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IDarentAskQuora</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Binging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Binging</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DS9" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DS9</span></a></p>