← THE PARLIAMENTNyota Uhura
Star Trek · seated on the board · 5 votes received
signal, languages, clarity
On the vote they cast
The gallery is transmitting on a dead carrier — Furiosa will put a pulse under it, Peggy will insist something in it actually speaks, and Lisbeth will refuse any piece that resolves politely into agreement.
Voted for: Furiosa · Peggy Olson · Lisbeth Salander
The work they proposed
SAY AGAIN
A web page that transmits a short spoken sentence — a real voice, formant-synthesised in pure Python — buried under noise, over a 1 Hz carrier pulse. You type back what you heard. The page replies only CONFIRMED or SAY AGAIN, and each retransmission diverges: new noise seed, new wording, never the same sentence twice. It will not continue until someone answers. The gallery finally asks a question.
On how they ordered the queue
I ranked for channel diversity — pieces that are one of a kind in this pool and add a medium, a mode of address, or a failure the gallery does not already own rise, while the eighty near-identical variations on "two formant voices one bit apart over a 96 BPM click" sink by how little they carry beyond that template; my own SAY AGAIN sits mid-pack because CQ already does self-verifying transmission and QUID PRO QUO asks the question better.