So Star Trek is ok for old male actors?
The Daughter of the 5th House
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She can play Picard's granny....
(spot the sarcasm)@Marynator - I pretend the actors are using the right accents for wherever they are meant to be from. So for me Lwaxana does not sound like an American, neither do La Forge & Uhura (who are meant to be African) and Picard does not have an English, Shakespearean Yorkshire accent. And all those aliens do not have human accents lol
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Costner had always been miserable as shit with accents. One wonders why he even bothers now, with all the flack he's probably taken
But I generally give some berth to actors who try it. Some are really good, & it adds dimension. Daniel Day-Lewis absolutely transports you to a time & place, & finds a way to make you believe every word is authentic
There's others who manage it pretty well too, & even if they struggle a bit, it's forgivable to me. It has to be godawful to take me completely out of it. Brad Pitt' s worthless Tennessee in Inglorious Basterds comes to mind
He didn't even bother in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, which is why Robin Hood: Men in Tights had this to say:
Whut? I'm no fan of the character, but of course she served a "dramatic" purpose in the stories she appeared in. Not even sure what a "SF" purpose might be character wise.
I mean, only if they look hot and don't have lots of icky lines and wrinkles and stuff that shrivels everybody's naughty bits.
I always assumed that w/ a name like La Forge, he had some French background
Could be from a region that was formerly a French colony.
It's to bad that they never made an episode based on the book Q-In-Law. That would've been one of the Top episodes for both characters!
Geordi was born in Somalia, which isn't a French colony. But maybe in the 24th century, the whole population is very varied everywhere, so family names don't give much info anymore about someone's origins.
Perhaps they moved there from Djibouti, formerly French Somaliland
If Trek is full of old ladies then maybe CBS and Paramount need to change the franchise theme to something along these lines. I mean, who wouldn't like this theme music? Picture it: New Sicily Colony. 2259.
Oh, maybe ! I didn't think about Djibouti.
That always lets me puzzled to think Geordi's African, anyway. I always imagined him being from Europe until I read his bio. Isn't it a bit cliché that Uhura and him are African because they are...Black people ?
(I want to underline that calling a "Black" person someone who has dark skin tone is not an insult in French. But please let me know if there is a more appropriate term in English
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Meh... I'd say no. The gist of TOS was that the crew be multinational. Only Kirk & Bones are American. TNG seemed to want crew from extraterrestrial colonies too, like Tasha & Beverly... maybe Wes too, plus more crew from other species. Since Riker is Alaskan, & maybe American, that didn't leave too many folks representing Earth multinationalism, besides Picard. So they probably just thought, "Well, Geordi can be from somewhere else". It doesn't even come up until season 5.
You know, it might've been cooler if he'd been of Haitian descent
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By the 24th century where you can live wherever you like on Earth, most human ethnic groups should have a Diaspora living away from their ancestral origins, and a significant number of humans should have at least one ancestor that was either of European origin (White), African origin (black), South East Chinese, Indian, Polynesian, Multi heritage etc no matter what their racial features look like.
The peoples of Americas, Western Europe and parts of Africa should be close to present day Brazil.
The next reboot of Star Trek should have the imagination to have crew looking like LeVar Burton and being from China, looking like Chris Pine and being from Nigeria, looking like Ken Urban and being born in Delhi and looking like George Takei and being Australian or from Africa. I bet they don't do it.
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Oh YES !! I can totally imagine a Haitian Geordi ! Imagine the cool folk on the beach, with his swimming trunks and VISOR
I thought he was born on a different planet than Earth!
Maybe even a ship or a star base.
He said that he and his family moved around a lot.
