#StarTrekSNW "Through the Lens of Time" spoilers
At the end of #StarTrekSNW's "Through the Lens of Time", the same display in sickbay is briefly seen in English and in the alien language seen on Vadia IX. Using this section of the display, I was able to decipher the language and find nearly all of the letters. The translation here is straightforward. 🧵
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#StarTrekSNW "Through the Lens of Time" spoilers
Things get a little bit more complicated on the right side of the screen and words show additional and missing letters but the English text is mostly still identical to the alien text (which uses a never-before seen alien font/language). The letters Y and H share the same alien letter. 2/5
@DarioZanette@mastodon.uno There is absolutely, absolutely no "only" about this. Only Klingon received this treatment, all the other alien languages of the week were just a few symbols put together. On the new shows, a whole alphabet is created for each and every alien language. 26 letters instead of only 5-10 that were randomly mixed and arranged. For each alien display, a proper English text is written, always in universe with no injokes, always fitting the episode. The text is then displayed using the newly created alien alphabet. Only later, based on the few alien letters seen in the episodes, people created fonts making up new letters (for Malcorian or Cardassian or Romulan, for example). There is no only about what is done on the new shows!
Jörg Hillebrand