In the TNG episode &quot;&quot; the Enterprise-D enters another galaxy.  Does she ever go to another galaxy a second time?  Why am I aksing such a absurd question? The spoken opening text of TNG is quite different in the German translation. Translated back to English it goes something like:  Space - infinite vastnesses. We are in a distant future. These are the adventures of the new starship Enterprise, which is many light-years away from earth on its way, to discover new worlds, unknown lifeforms and new civilisations. The Enterprise thereby advances to galaxies, that no man has seen before.  Obviously the guy who did the German translation didn't know much about Star Trek, since travelling to other galaxies is, if at all, only a very minor part of what the series is about. But I grew up with this sentence and it made me wonder: Does the Enterprise D advance into galaxies where no-one (that is: no human) has been before? I already know of one example, where the Enterprise D entered another galaxy. But that's singular, while the opening text talks about galaxies (plural). Is there another example of the Enterprise D going to another galaxy, or is the German translation of the opening text not only misleading but plainly wrong about that?  For completeness, here is the original opening text:  Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.  And here is the untranslated German opening text:  Der Weltraum, unendliche Weiten. Wir befinden uns in einer fernen Zukunft. Dies sind die Abenteuer des neuen Raumschiffs Enterprise, das viele Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt unterwegs ist, um fremde Welten zu entdecken, unbekannte Lebensformen und neue Zivilisationen. Die Enterprise dringt dabei in Galaxien vor, die nie ein Mensch zuvor gesehen hat.  (emphasis added)
I recall in at least two episodes of Star Trek ( from the original series and  from The Next Generation) that there is reference to and contact with species from external galaxies.  By the 29th century, we see that timeships exist.  My question is, is there any reference to intergalactic relations in Star Trek in the future (say, by the 29th Century), or does the Star Trek Universe stay in the Milky Way Galaxy?
In , the votes clearly show that the os.path.splitext function is preferred over the simple .split('.')[-1] string manipulation. Does anyone have a moment to explain exactly why that is? Is it faster, or more accurate, or what? I'm willing to accept that there's something better about it, but I can't immediately see what it might be. Might importing a whole module to do this be overkill, at least in simple cases?  EDIT: The OS specificity is a big win that's not immediately obvious; but even I should've seen the "what if there isn't a dot" case! And thanks to everybody for the general comments on library usage. How can I search in another language? Term for a person who can read but cannot write I'm looking for a term to accurately describe a person who can only read but cannot write. 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I understand that there are $3$ large space dimensions, a time dimension, and $6$ or $7$ (or $22$) extra dimensions, and all these dimensions need to fit together in a way such that the extra dimensions are compactified (with a Calabi-Yau or $G_2$ structure).   My question, however is not about the possible $10$, $11$ or $26$ dimensional manifolds that may be possible, but about whether string theorists consider space-time as somehow quantized (or discrete), or rather as a continuous manifold, or are both options possible? In other words, can strings move continuously through space, or are there a discrete set of locations where strings can be, and does string theory rule out one of the options?  How about the same question in loop quantum gravity (LQG)? Should I think of the spin networks in LQG as describing a discrete space-time?  Thanks for your insight, or any references you may be able to provide! probability of $k$ boxes contain exactly $1$ ball Is there a way to check if a file is in use? What should I do when my neural network doesn't learn? I often find myself in the following position: I've started typing a long command at the bash prompt, but half-way through I find out I need to check something with another command. 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