November 2019 - Day 3

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

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.

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Well, that's an interesting thought to have just as those giant doors close behind you :)

Fake science is hard--even in the original language! Good luck with those translations.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It is really tedious work. But even though not many people seem to even give the story a glance (the hit counter on AO3 can be really depressing sometimes), I love it. I love the entire series - Classic TrekxClassic BSG, my all-time favourites, what's there not to like?

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Eek!

I like the idea of striped pears :-)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with them, they actually look pretty - I just don't understand why they're called Kaferian apples.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

It's hopeful to think that there may be life after work. I sure hope so.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'll make sure to inform you when - if - I discover it.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm much obliged!