Are there any star trek episodes that deal with biological incompatibility with alien computer display color spaces?
I feel like there should be a TNG episode where like Barclay or someone is in a bind on an alien space craft because he can't read a computer screen because the color gamut is entirely UV. The day is saved when Geordie pops by and he can read it just fine with his visor thingy.
@aeva maybe the aliens never added a second polarization filter to their lcds because either their photoreceptors can detect polarization, or their eyes already polarize light, so all humans see is a white screen? 😅
@aeva There's a whole season of Discovery devoted to figuring out how to make first contact with a species that communicates exclusively through math and aerosolized emotion because they're accidentally spitting blackholes throughout the galaxy and we need to tell them to stop
@aeva so, I don't know about color spaces, but I know in one of the books, there's an anecdote about how Spock is talking in a super high pitch to communicate with another Vulcan because he knows it's above the frequency range that humans can hear.
@aeva A similar problem: why can they get video communications working with any alien they meet?
I suppose you could handwave it as being a side effect of all the species having the same ancestry (which itself is a massive handwave to apologize for the existence of Spock).
@aeva I'm such a star trek apologist... and yet it always bothers me that star fleet peeps can always just walk up to any alien UI and grok it instantly, like it's just a winamp skin for LCARS.
@aeva I can't think of any but I remember an episode where the the opposite happened though. There is an episode where they connect to Geordie visor to see more of the colour spectrum.
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