Darmok and Jalad

by Jeff

Image text: I wonder how often Patrick Stewart has Darmok flashbacks when talking to Star Trek fans.

This comic is a reference to the Star Trek episode "Darmok" in which Captain Picard and the Enterprise crew come upon a Tamarian ship and Tamarian planet in which they can translate the words, but because the language is based on metaphors, they cannot understand what the words mean.  The famous line from the episode: "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is parodied in the first frame of the comic.

Picard is eventually able to decipher the line to discover that it was a story of two warriors that work together to defeat a common foe.  In the comic, the computer instead deciphers the "Darmok and Jalad at Kalenda's" phrase.

Can any Star Trek fans add more to this explanation in the comments?