Hoshi Sato was an exolinguist who graduated second in her class and later became Jonathan Archer's first choice for the mission aboard Enterprise in 2151. She reasoned the importance of her role by stating that, "every inhabited world we come to is going to be filled with language. Some will have hundreds of them. He needs me here." (ENT: "Fight or Flight") An unused portion of dialogue established Uhura as having a Gold rating in exolinguistics. [1] Before studying musical composition, Sek took exolinguistics. He found the science too theoretical. (VOY: "Repression")