Re: $.02 on Vulcan Writing Randall Raemon Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:12:47 -0500 In message Rob Zook writes: > Well, they do seem to have broader use than I thought..,I don't > remember seeing them at all in ST:DSN, do you remember which > episode(s) you can see them on the Promenade display directory? It was fairly recent, as I remember seeing it sometime in the past season. I think the epsiode of the Prophet-Wraith encounter on station. Some character walked across the Promenade right square in front of the display. > So, I think we should just proceed as best we can. The display directory > on DS9's promenade is the only example of the staff/treble clef writing > used in a modern setting to my knowledge. The only other examples we > have are bottle of some Vulcan liquor, and a book of ancient Vulcan > wisdom. So the use of the writing on DS9 seems pretty anachronistic. There is a full diagram of the "Rossetta Stone" (as I've heard it described) in the book "The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", ISBN 0-671-87430-6, copyright 1994, soft bound, letter-sized paper. The diagram is on page 305. > Possibly, but in what context is Vulcan writing described as syllabic? > And which version of the writing, we've uncovered at least four > styles now. At least three of which look completely unrelated. The objects being referred to in TNG "Unification" are similar to a child's building blocks with letters. Spock uses the words "syllabic nucleus" to describe the symbols on the blocks. -- Randall Raemon email to owner-vulcan-l or rlr at the shikahr site or the junk-bait address of sargon*shikahr,com,inter,net