Nope. They just said “Talk some more so we can understand each other better.”.
You’re right about “Return to Tomorrow,” though I don’t think they mentioned the “native language” bit. That would make a lot of sense, though.
In “The Enterprise Incident,” it was heavily implied the Romulan Commander learned English as a foreign language. How this was possible after having had no contact with Earth for 100 years was not explained. Neither was how the rest of the Romulan crew apparently knew English as well.
In TOS, the handheld UT was seen only in the episode “Metamorphosis.” The rest of the time it apparently functioned through the ship’s communications system, or through the standard communicators when serving on a landing party.
Okay, that’s the one I meant to refer to above, that gave the energy-cloud creature a female voice, allegedly (Kirk or someone speculated) because it wanted to “nurture” Zefram Cochrane.
For a progressive, forward-looking sci-fi series of the day, TOS was sure heavy on sexist and gender-specific stereotypes.
Yeah, that scene in Exorcist 3.
And the final scene in Carrie. It was on TV while I was also reading something at the time. But it still was quite a shock.
From TV: I remember the first airing of the first Twilight Zone episode. I was 8. In a scene, near the end, the actor runs down the theater stairs from the balcony and toward the camera, and from behind the camera he crashes into the large wall mirror on which we were actually seeing him.
Also from TV: In the “Inspector Morse” episode, The Way Through The Woods, near the end the murderer very suddenly kills her husband with a shotgun blast to the chest in front of the horrified Sgt. Lewis.
Oh, well, if we’re going to include TV, then the end of the Magnum, PI episode Did You See the Sunrise?
Also when Angela revealed her real name in season one of The Exorcism.
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In DS9 episode “Little Green Men” Quark, Rom,and Nog get transported back in time to Earth in 1947(Roswell, NM to be specific). Their Universal Translators malfunctioned and they can’t understand what the humans are saying. Rom manages to fix them and not only are they are able to understand the humans but someone they are able to able to speak to the humans.
So apparently the UTs are able to make them able to speak different languages as well or I am misunderstanding how they work.
I haven’t seen that episode, but from the others I know, it seems the UT can make anyone understand any language. It’s all done with brain waves. (At least, that was the explanation given in TOS.) The only listener who always hears them speaking perfect English is the TV viewer.
Feather In My Cap: I wasn’t surprised, saw that one coming. Yay, me, but hold your applause because… Black Eye: That is one of the VERY few times I’ve anticipated the big reveal in a Morse (or Lewis) episode.
My wife at the time, told me afterwards she thought, “Wow! That’s an amazing special effect!”
Jaye Davidson did an amazing job.
In, “The Poseidon Adventure,” when the man falls from the table into the skylight, I remember a lot of shocked “Whoas.”
the ending of the anime movie "the professional"l aka glogo 13 it was a shock just fit the nihilism of the movie
Jaye Davidson was terrific, and so were the other actors – the surprise gave it a nice flavor, but it would have been a really good movie even had we known what was coming. And the final song was just too perfect!
Another TV moment: Early 80s hit tv series L.A. Law; when villainess Rosalind Shays steps into an empty elevator shaft. My mother and I were watching it in different rooms and we both yelled at the same time. At the commercial I walked into her bedroom and said something along the lines of, “did that just happen”?
I remember an intense scene from the first Pet Semetary movie. When the boy leaves the picnicking family to chase the kite string towards the road… the juxtaposition of scenes, the boy, the panicking family, the speeding truck, cut, cut, cut. It built so rapidly and so forcefully that I didn’t realize I’d actually been holding my breath until it was over. Hit me as powerfully as, well, a truck. So I offer that as a moment that generated genuine shock, at least for me.
For me, it’s the scene in Casino, when Joe’s Pesci’s character (Nicky) and his brother are beaten half-to-death via baseball bats.
The sound alone still makes me shudder.
Everything I’ve heard about that movie is horrifying.
^^Yeah, it’s pretty violent.
Same thing with Goodfellas.
Yeah that wasn’t a happy moment in our house watching it with my early teen daughters. They were crying and my wife was mad at me for letting them watch it.
I was actually unspoiled going into that movie but when the big reveal happened I was all “Well, duh, yeah.” Apparently my transdar is really on point because I spotted her as a not bio her almost from the jump.
And yes, that scene from the original Pet Sematary was gruelling, any time I’ve watched it since the first time I skip right over that because I just can’t.