Trek Darmok

myth:trek_darmok

In the episode 'Darmok', the crew meets a people who speak only in metaphor — every phrase an allusion to their own myths, so that 'Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra' means two who became allies by facing a common danger, and you cannot understand a word until you know the story behind it. An hour of television that is itself about the deepest truth of language: that a word carries no meaning alone, and that meaning is made wholly of shared story and relation. — contemporary culture