Universal Language Translator:
As this is used on the Star Trek shows, it's just an automagical device to enable characters to get through the stories. It would be too tedious and repetitious in a one-hour show for the characters to overcome real language barriers in a realistic manner in every show. The way the Enterprise crew can encounter an alien spacecraft, "hail them on standard frequencies," and establish instant telecommunications on their viewscreens is a preposterous shortcut to keep the plot from faltering. We can certainly dismiss the possibility of such an invention ever being built.
是不是說這項宇宙翻譯機只是一項和外星人打招呼時，所使用的一項技術，只是為
了讓劇情不致太冗長和荒誕才會杜撰出來的。應該不要去深入追究，是嗎？