It may be but it's unlike any I've ever encountered. We lack the tools to understand it, in...

Hirai: I'm not seeing the redundancy in patterning I'd expect from language either.
T'Rina: You're saying it's not a language?
Hirai: It may be but it's unlike any I've ever encountered. We lack the tools to understand it, in which case, it may as well not be.


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Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 12: "Species Ten-C"
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Ndoye: Is taking on that level of risk really prudent?
Hirai: We won't get a different response without a different input.

Culber: We collected sixteen complex hydrocarbon compounds from the Ten-C's former planet. Each conveys a different emotion -- terror, love, sadness, curiosity, peacefulness...
Hirai: ... which is the one that concerns us now. Our contingency plan entails using that hydrocarbon to try to start the communication process. Basically, 'we come in peace,' in chemical form.

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