Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[Tim Thomason]

And yeah, nobody can ever tell me that alien woman is Colt. No way. That is just colossal wankery.

She was credited as Yeoman Colt, the only one in all of Star Trek history.

We still don't know the name of the Yeoman from The Cage who was played by Laurel Goodwin.

 

[Dukhat]

Kevin Costner has experience playing British characters. He was Robin Hood.

I’m assuming you’re being facetious.

 

[fireproof78]

She was credited as Yeoman Colt, the only one in all of Star Trek history.

We still don't know the name of the Yeoman from The Cage who was played by Laurel Goodwin.

If Kirk's middle initial can change then a character never addressed by name on screen can have another name.

 

[Tim Thomason]

If Kirk's middle initial can change then a character never addressed by name on screen can have another name.

Exactly. Laurel Goodwin's unnamed character might be "Yeoman Jones" for all we know.

 

[fireproof78]

Exactly. Laurel Goodwin's unnamed character might be "Yeoman Jones" for all we know.

Or spikey alien has a different name. Or both.

 

[GNDN18]

Kevin Costner has experience playing British characters. He was Robin Hood.

Exactly. Laurel Goodwin's unnamed character might be "Yeoman Jones" for all we know.

Or "Smith", sir.

 

[Tuskin38]

https://twitter.com/preeeeeeeti/status/1417178835422941184?s=21
https://twitter.com/preeeeeeeti/status/1417210915968147457

Some filming at a campus in Toronto

Spoiler

Looks like a protest of some kind

 

[UssGlenn]

Kevin Costner has experience playing British characters. He was Robin Hood.

But seriously, how about Cary Elwes for April?

 

[Yistaan]

There's no indication in his sole TAS appearance that Robert April was British that I remember.

 

[137th Gebirg]

James Doohan played the voice of RA. IIRC, he did seem to have a slight British, or possibly even New England/Bramin/Mid-Atlantic affectation to the speech patterns. It wasn't midwestern American sounding. (or Canadian).

 

[GNDN18]

James Doohan played the voice of RA. IIRC, he did seem to have a slight British, or possibly even New England/Bramin/Mid-Atlantic affectation to the speech patterns. It wasn't midwestern American sounding. (or Canadian).

I kid, of course. I do agree that Doohan was efforting toward a mid-Atlantic accent. Posh, but not too posh.

 

[Yistaan]

James Doohan played the voice of RA. IIRC, he did seem to have a slight British, or possibly even New England/Bramin/Mid-Atlantic affectation to the speech patterns. It wasn't midwestern American sounding. (or Canadian).

I mean this is the same franchise that had a British accented Frenchman Picard and a speech disabled Chekov's inability to say v sounds written off as a Russian accent (which makes no sense--how does Chekov even say his own name Pavel Andreivich?)

 

[137th Gebirg]

^^^ All very true. He could be from Alpha Centauri, for all we know, and that's just how they talk there (via Universal Translator affecting an accent upon the English words we hear).

And yeah, the "V" thing with Chekov always bugged me too, although I was amused to see that they made a bit of an in-joke about it in ST09 when Anton Yelchin took up the role. IIRC, he commented about it a little during filming at the time. He had to work real hard not to pronounce the "V"'s like "V"'s in-dialogue.

 

[cooleddie74]

There's no indication in his sole TAS appearance that Robert April was British that I remember.

I'd just make April from the United States and give him an origin from a state where no Trek Captain has yet hailed from.

 

[UssGlenn]

I'd just make April from the United States and give him an origin from a state where no Trek Captain has yet hailed from.

So not Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, New York, California (x2), or Louisiana, and possibly Alabama. I think that covers everyone. I'm partial to Texas myself.

 

[cooleddie74]

Virginia.

There. You'll all thank me.

 

[fireproof78]

Once again, Idaho gets no love. That's ridiculous.

 

[GNDN18]

 

[WarpFactorZ]

I'd just make April from the United States and give him an origin from a state where no Trek Captain has yet hailed from.

District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or US Virgin Islands!

 

[cooleddie74]

Washington, D.C. could work. Then we could have April telling stories of growing up seeing the Washington Monument and other local landmarks.

Plus it might also establish in canon that the city survived World War III.