 FACT: Veer analyzes the marking on the uniform insignia and deduces  that not only is it the name of a vessel, but also the correct  pronunciation. However, there was no context to lead him to conclude  the nature of the marks, or, assuming they did correspond to a  language, whether each symbol represented a sound (as in English) a  syllable (as in Amharic) or a word (as in Chinese). The same error  was made in _Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)_ (qv), in which  the alien probe deduced the pronunciation and meaning of the Earth  probe Voyager on the basis of four letters.