You know, when miriad basically strapped me to her couch and forced me to watch the original Stargate movie, I said (well, FIRST I flailed and squealed and lost my shit over how hot James Spader was, but after that) I said "OMG! You mean this is a SF show that has a linguist because aliens don't speak english? And the probable language family and linguistic traits of the languages they do speak prove to be an important clue? And the aliens don't speak English?

I sort of flailed with joy, and then miriad had to go, "uh, well, ah, actually..."