That's the part of the movie that bothered me the most. Hell, we could do that for the most part in 2016.
If this was the TNG or Voyager crew they'd have that whale communication replicated in an hour.
Good movie but the original ST crew really goes out of their way to make things more difficult than they really should be.
I really hate to be THAT guy, but this is discussed in the movie:
You can re-create the sound, but not the language.
SPOCK
10 million years earlier. Humpbacks
were heavily hunted by Man. They
have been extinct since the 21st
Century... It is possible that an
alien intelligence sent the probe to
determine why they lost contact.
BONES
... My God...
KIRK
Spock, could the Humpback's answer
to this call be simulated?
SPOCK
The sounds, but not the language. We
would be responding in gibberish.
I really hate to be THAT guy, but this is discussed in the movie:
Thanks. I missed that part. Glad to see they asked that question. Nemoy did a really great job making this movie.
My only other gripe is how in the hell did they fit two humpback whales in that Klingon ship? There are scenes at the beginning of the film that give you a good look at how big the ship is and it seems to be a stretch (literally) to fit two whales in that thing.
The size of the Bird of Prey fluctuates throughout these films. For instance, the ship is much larger when shown with the landing ramp open at the end of Star Trek III, and much smaller with the ramp open at the start of Star Trek IV. Then, later in Star Trek IV, the Bird of Prey is huge when set against the whaling ship. There is no way the redesigned Trek IV bridge could have fit inside of the much smaller Klingon bridge from Trek III!
Here is an interesting site to visit that details the hilarious fluctuating Bird of Prey size...http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/bop-size.htm. It is a great read!
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