The Italian language was a language spoken on the planet Earth, predominantly spoken by Italians and in Italy.
A 17th century map from Earth labeled several locations in Italian, including the Indian Ocean (Mar di India) and the Bay of Bengal (Golfo de Bengala). (Star Trek: Enterprise, opening credits)
During a malfunction of the universal translator aboard USS Discovery caused by the Sphere lifeform, Commander Nhan's speech was translated into Italian: "Il traduttore universale no funziona." (DIS: "An Obol for Charon")
Spock asked Sybok "Qual sei tu?", translating as "Who art thou?" from Italian, when he initially didn't recognize his half-brother on Nimbus III in 2287. Sybok himself later used this phrase upon encountering an entity on Sha Ka Ree. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
Leonardo da Vinci in the holodeck program created by Kathryn Janeway, as well as various others, occasionally spoke Italian:
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Arabic • Chinese (Cantonese • Mandarin Chinese) • Dutch • English • Finnish • French • German • Greek • Hawaiian • Hebrew • Hindi • Irish • Italian • Japanese • Latin • Lincos • Norwegian • Polish • Russian • Scots • Sign language (American Sign Language) • Spanish • Swahili • Welsh • Whale song • Wolof |
Background information
The Star Trek: Voyager episode title "Virtuoso" is Italian, meaning virtuous or master.
The phrase used by Spock and Sybok is a quote from Dante's Divine Comedy.
The script for "The Siege of AR-558" misspelled "capisce" as "capice".
External links
- Italian language at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Italian language at Wikipedia