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Q&A Is there any way to get around having everyone in the world speak the same language?

Farscape Translator Microbes. In the SyFy series Farscape, Translator Microbes infected everybody, including the human thrust into this alien universe. In the pilot episode, John Crichton pops out...

posted 7y ago by Amadeus‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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### Farscape Translator Microbes.

In the SyFy series Farscape, [Translator Microbes](http://farscape.wikia.com/wiki/Translator_microbe) infected everybody, including the human thrust into this alien universe. In the pilot episode, John Crichton pops out of a wormhole and ends up on an alien ship. Everybody on it is talking gibberish. He clearly does not understand them, then a little floor robot thing injects him with something. A few minutes later their speech is interspersed with English and then they all seem to be talking English.

Your exact point is made by Crichton about this; they explain somehow he was raised without the translator microbes so they ordered the robot to inject him. Everybody speaks their own languages, but it is automatically translated.

Near the end of the series (1993) astronaut John Crichton finally makes his way back to Earth, and can understand every language on Earth.

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