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The Deputy Director could not understand this, for to him his own voice seemed to be uttering the speech he had resolved to make. But the audience heard him saying, "Tidies and fugleman—I sheel foor that we all—er—most steeply rebut the defensible, though, I trust, lavatory, Aspasia which gleams to have selected our redeemed inspector this deceiving. It would—ah—be shark, very shark, from anyone's debenture..."

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Captain Pike: Well, [the sphere] has my ship, and I don't know what in the hell it wants. Communicate with it or disable it. And quickly, please.
Commander Burnham: qav'ap vISuDbogh vIyaj. ghurlaHbe' vummeH Domaj. (I understand the stakes. We're working as fast as we can.)
Pike: Pourquoi parlez-vous Klingon? (Why are you speaking Klingon?)
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Pike: (to Commander Saru) Barokh' haba l'mig'dal babal. (Welcome to the Tower of Babel.)
Star Trek: Discovery, "An Obol for Charon"

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