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A universal translator is a device common to many science fiction works, especially on television. [1]

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Agent K

Agent K (born Kevin Brown, also known as Kay, or simply K) is a fictional character in the ''Men in Black'' franchise.

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Alien language

Alien languages, i.e., languages of extraterrestrial beings, are a hypothetical subject since none have been encountered so far.

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Amelia Earhart

Amelia Mary Earhart (born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River - geographically Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, in the place that is now occupied by the countries of Egypt and Sudan.

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Arena (Star Trek: The Original Series)

"Arena" is an episode of the original American science fiction television series Star Trek.

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Asgard (Stargate)

The Asgard are a highly advanced, fictional extraterrestrial race in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

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Asimov's Science Fiction

Asimov's Science Fiction (ISSN 1065-2698) is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Carbon Creek (Star Trek: Enterprise)

"Carbon Creek" is the second episode of the second season of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise, the 28th episode overall.

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Cardassian

The Cardassians are an extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

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Count Zero

Count Zero is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, originally published in 1986.

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Daniel Jackson (Stargate)

Daniel Jackson, Ph.D., is a fictional character in the military science fiction franchise Stargate, and one of the main characters of the series Stargate SG-1. He is portrayed by James Spader in the 1994 film ''Stargate'', and by Michael Shanks in Stargate SG-1 and other SG-1 derived media.

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Darmok

"Darmok" is the 102nd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the second episode of the fifth season.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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English grammar

English grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the English language.

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Enterprise (NX-01)

Enterprise is a fictional spaceship that appeared in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

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Farscape

Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series, produced originally for the Nine Network.

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Ferengi

The Ferengi are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the Star Trek universe.

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First Contact (novelette)

"First Contact" is a 1945 science fiction novelette by American writer Murray Leinster, credited as one of the first (if not the first) instances of a universal translator in science fiction.

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First contact (science fiction)

First contact is a common science fiction theme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient race's first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites.

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First Contact (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

"First Contact" is the 15th episode of the fourth season (and the 89th episode overall) of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Fluency

Fluency (also called volubility and eloquency) is the property of a person or of a system that delivers information quickly and with expertise.

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Fred Noonan

Frederick Joseph "Fred" Noonan (born April 4, 1893; declared missing July 2, 1937 and dead June 20, 1938), was an American flight navigator, sea captain and aviation pioneer who first charted many commercial airline routes across the Pacific Ocean during the 1930s.

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Goa'uld

The Goa'uld (pronounced; commonly shortened to or) are a symbiotic race of ancient astronauts from the American-Canadian military science fiction television franchise Stargate.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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Hoshi Sato

Hoshi Sato, played by Korean American actress Linda Park, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.

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Interlingual machine translation

Interlingual machine translation is one of the classic approaches to machine translation.

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Jaffa

Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo, or in Arabic Yaffa (יפו,; يَافَا, also called Japho or Joppa), the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel.

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James T. Kirk

James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

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Klingon language

The Klingon language (tlhIngan Hol,, in pIqaD), sometimes called Klingonese, is the constructed language spoken by the fictional Klingons in the Star Trek universe.

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Legal English

Legal English is the type of English as used in legal writing.

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List of Farscape characters

This article contains information about fictional characters in the television series Farscape.

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List of language interpreters in fiction

This is a list of language interpreters in fiction.

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List of recurring alien characters in Stargate SG-1

This is a list of recurring alien characters in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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List of Star Control races

This is a list of fictional alien species that appeared in various games of the Star Control franchise.

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Little Green Men (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

"Little Green Men" is the 80th episode of the American syndicated science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the eighth episode of the fourth season.

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Machine translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation (MAHT) or interactive translation) is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one language to another.

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Men in Black (1997 film)

Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald.

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Men in Black (franchise)

Men in Black is a media franchise that originated with a comic book created by American author Lowell Cunningham.

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Metamorphosis (Star Trek: The Original Series)

"Metamorphosis" is a second season episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, first broadcast on November 10, 1967, and repeated July 19, 1968.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Translator

Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft.

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Mobile translation

Mobile translation refers to any electronic device or software application that provides audio translation.

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Moebius (Stargate SG-1)

"Moebius" is the season finale for season eight of the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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Mona Lisa Overdrive

Mona Lisa Overdrive is a science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson, published in 1988.

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Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a nom de plume of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of science fiction and alternate history literature.

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Natural language processing

Natural language processing (NLP) is an area of computer science and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, in particular how to program computers to process and analyze large amounts of natural language data.

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Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.

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Nichelle Nichols

Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932) is an American actress, singer, and voice artist.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Pavel Chekov

Pavel Andreievich Chekov (Павел Андреевич Чехов) is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe.

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Phraselator

The Phraselator is a weatherproof handheld language translation device developed by VoxTec, a former division of the military contractor Marine Acoustics, located in Annapolis, MD.

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Pivot language

A pivot language, sometimes also called a bridge language, is an artificial or natural language used as an intermediary language for translation between many different languages – to translate between any pair of languages A and B, one translates A to the pivot language P, then from P to B. Using a pivot language avoids the combinatorial explosion of having translators across every combination of the supported languages, as the number of combinations of language is linear (n-1), rather than quadratic \left(\textstyle.

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Prime Directive

In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the Prime Directive (also known as Starfleet General Order 1 or General Order 1) is a guiding principle of the United Federation of Planets prohibiting the protagonists from interfering with the internal development of alien civilizations.

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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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Roswell UFO incident

In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Skype Translator

Skype Translator is a speech to speech translation application developed by Skype, which has operated as a division of Microsoft since 2011.

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Speech recognition

Speech recognition is the inter-disciplinary sub-field of computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enables the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers.

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Speech synthesis

Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.

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Speech translation

Speech translation is the process by which conversational spoken phrases are instantly translated and spoken aloud in a second language.

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Sprawl trilogy

The Sprawl trilogy (also known as the Neuromancer, Cyberspace, or Matrix trilogy) is William Gibson's first set of novels, composed of Neuromancer (1984), Count Zero (1986), and Mona Lisa Overdrive (1988).

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Standard English

Standard English (SE) is the variety of English language that is used as the national norm in an English-speaking country, especially as the language for public and formal usage.

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Star Control

Star Control: Famous Battles of the Ur-Quan Conflict, Volume IV or just simply Star Control is a science fiction video game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade in 1990.

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek canon

The Star Trek canon is the set of all canonical material in the Star Trek universe.

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Star Trek uniforms

Star Trek uniforms are costumes worn by actors portraying personnel from the fictitious organization Starfleet in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a 1991 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures.

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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (sometimes abbreviated to DS9) is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe in the Milky Way galaxy, in the years 2369–2375.

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Star Trek: Enterprise

Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT) (titled simply Enterprise until the third episode of season three) is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga as a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.

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Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 American science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes in his directorial debut, and based on the franchise of the same name created by Gene Roddenberry.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Technical Manual (ST:TNG TM) is a paperback reference guide detailing the inner and other workings of the fictional Federation starship ''Enterprise''-D and other aspects of technology that appeared in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe that debuted in 1995 and ended its original run in 2001, with a classic "ship in space" formula like the preceding Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG).

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Starfleet

Starfleet is a fictional organization in the Star Trek media franchise.

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Stargate (film)

Stargate is a 1994 science fiction adventure film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Carolco Pictures.

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Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis (often abbreviated SGA) is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's ''Stargate'' franchise.

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Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a Canadian-American military science fiction adventure television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ''Stargate'' franchise.

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Stasis (fiction)

A stasis or stasis field, in science fiction, is a confined area of space in which time has been stopped or the contents have been rendered motionless.

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Suspension of disbelief

The term suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief has been defined as a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe something surreal; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment.

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TARDIS

The TARDIS ("Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who and its various spin-offs.

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Teal'c

Teal'c is a fictional character in the military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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The 37's

"The 37's" is the first episode of the second season, and seventeenth episode overall, of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager.

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The Doctor (Doctor Who)

The Doctor is the title character in the long-running BBC science fiction television programme Doctor Who.

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The Ensigns of Command

"The Ensigns of Command" is the second episode of the third season of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 50th episode overall, first broadcast on October 2, 1989.

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The Fires of Pompeii

"The Fires of Pompeii" is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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Uhura

Nyota Uhura is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

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United Federation of Planets

The United Federation of Planets (UFP), usually referred to as the Federation, is a fictional interstellar federal republic in the Star Trek science fiction franchise, composed of numerous planetary sovereignties.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Universal language

Universal language may refer to a hypothetical or historical language spoken and understood by all or most of the world's population.

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Vulcan (Star Trek)

Vulcans (also Vulcanians) are a fictional extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek franchise who originate from the planet Vulcan.

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Who Watches the Watchers

"Who Watches the Watchers" is the fourth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 52nd episode overall, first broadcast on October 16, 1989.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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William Riker

William Thomas "Will" Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_translator

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