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Bogost concludes that "understanding how the world works is a more promising approach to intervention within it than mere description or depiction." However, I think that myth and important figures in literature are powerful and teaches us about our world.

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Bogost, Ian. “Shaka, When the Walls Fell.” The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 18 June 2014, www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/star-trek-tng-and-the-limits-of-language-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/372107/. Accessed 13 Nov. 2020.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation. NBC, 1991, disc 102.

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In his review of the episode, Ian Bogost claims that it's allegory the Tamarians used: "allegory's veiled language is powerful, because allegories effectively freeze time, making a historical or fictional scene immortal" (Bogost).

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The way that the Tamarians communicate are further elaborated:

DATA: They seem to communicate through narrative imagery by reference to individuals and places which appear in their mytho-historical accounts.

TROI: It's as if I were to say to you, Juliet on her balcony.

CRUSHER: An image of romance.

(Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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Eventually, Picard figures out how the Children of Tama communicates: "That's how you communicate, isn't it? By citing example, by metaphor! Uzani's army, with fists open" (Star Trek: The Next Generation).

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In "Darmok," Picard and his crew meet the technologically advanced race, the Children of Tama. When trying to communicate with them, the universal translator successfully interprets their language... But it doesn't make any sense.