incompatible modes of communication theme
The trouble two intelligent beings who use entirely different approaches to communication may face in understanding each other is illustrated.
22 total · 3 choice · 13 major · 6 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ent1x22 | choice | Hoshi struggled to communicate with the freaky web alien. |
| tas1x15 | choice | humans and slug aliens |
| voy5x19 | choice | chaotic space aliens trying to communicate with Voyager crew by means of Chakotay |
| futurama6x26 | major | Story 3 was premised on communicating with aliens using their gestural language. |
| futurama7x23 | major | A UFO was apparently attempting to make contact with Earth using a sequence of musical tones. |
| movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) | major | Much of the film concerned a team of investigators trying to decode a cryptic transmission from the UFOs. |
| movie: Solaris (1968) | major | A point was made about the alien mind of Solaris being so different from the human mind that clear communication between it and the people on the space station was not possible. |
| movie: Solaris (1972) | major | A point was made about the alien mind of Solaris being so different from the human mind that clear communication between it and the people on the space station was not possible. |
| shortstory: A Baby on Neptune (1929) | major | The Neptunians had trouble communicating with the people of Earth, and vice versa, because their biological and mental processes operated on a very slow timescale by comparison. |
| tng1x18 | major | Enterprise crew trying to communicate with the microbrains. |