And posting my comment right away again, as I don't know if I'd get around to do it later. Being retired is a full-time job, I tell you!
In any case, I've translated a few paragraphs (not even a full page) and typed them up. These parts are full of descriptions and made-up fake science and really hard to translate. *sigh*
Excerpt:
“That is our Centre of Agricultural Research,” Riis declared proudly. “If you’d follow me, please…”
Without waiting for an answer, it hurried forward to punch the access code into the control panel next to the huge security doors. When those opened, Ann Mulhall exchanged meaningful looks with her colleague: the enormous doorwings, made of solid collapsed metal, were thick enough to withstand even the Enterprise’s phaser cannons. Clearly, the Dairu* took security very seriously.
The astrobiologist shivered. Were these protective measures truly meant to wear off the radiation of the supernova, or was something seriously wrong with the colony, so that the Researchers had to fear for their lives?
*The Dairu are a semi-canon insectoid species. In Original Series they were the inhabitants of the planet Kaferia, and while we never saw them on screen, they were depicted in Shane Johnson's The Worlds of the Federation as man-sized insects who were the unchallenged experts of plant genetics. The Kaferian Apples - very much canon, seen in the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before - actually looked like striped pears.
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In any case, I've translated a few paragraphs (not even a full page) and typed them up. These parts are full of descriptions and made-up fake science and really hard to translate. *sigh*
Excerpt:
“That is our Centre of Agricultural Research,” Riis declared proudly. “If you’d follow me, please…”
Without waiting for an answer, it hurried forward to punch the access code into the control panel next to the huge security doors. When those opened, Ann Mulhall exchanged meaningful looks with her colleague: the enormous doorwings, made of solid collapsed metal, were thick enough to withstand even the Enterprise’s phaser cannons. Clearly, the Dairu* took security very seriously.
The astrobiologist shivered. Were these protective measures truly meant to wear off the radiation of the supernova, or was something seriously wrong with the colony, so that the Researchers had to fear for their lives?
*The Dairu are a semi-canon insectoid species. In Original Series they were the inhabitants of the planet Kaferia, and while we never saw them on screen, they were depicted in Shane Johnson's The Worlds of the Federation as man-sized insects who were the unchallenged experts of plant genetics. The Kaferian Apples - very much canon, seen in the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before - actually looked like striped pears.