So, caretaker is as Stupid as the squire of Gothos?

[Guy Gardener]

We're going to assume that the targeting lens on his pan galactic tractor can fix on ships he's thinking about raping the crews of, it's an automatic setting... I'm cool with that. but why then when Caretaker wanted to make the mostly human crews of Voyager and the Val Jean he constructed a calming environment 400 years out of date?

Our Banjo Buddy forgot to account for relativity when he manually panned his telescope to figure out how to placate the humans with a hospitable diarama before they're dragged off for insemination.

Trelane did the same thing with kirk a century earlier.

but why does this matter?

2370 - 1920 = 450.

The Badlands, Bajor, the wormwhole, DS9 is approximately 450 light years form Earth.

Cool?

 

[Finn]

Remember Picard's family home. It still looks 19th Century.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Which makes me wonder how broad the civilian population on Earth is that it might be tiny compared to the government workers (it's a company town?) comptrolling the Federation from Paris first and out from there to the ends of the earth, that on a world where there is no personal wealth or property that affording any person or heredity progression "land" you have to wonder if Sisko's restaurant and the Picard vineyard weren't dinky stunts for tourism (which is pointless since again if there's no money, why pander to tourists? Pride? On Risa it's fresh meat for sex, because it's a planet of horn dogs... French? Louisiana and France? The Native Americans certainly lost their reservations after the third world war (But probably made a land grab during the chaos?) when the USA fell, is it possible that the worlds speakers of French arranged their on reservations which if they held the sanctity of how they spoke sacrosanct they'd be well against Universal translator and probably employ dampening technology.) to entertain people who actually work for a living.

It's all pretend on earth?

Play acting like a colonial town?

After all trillions and trillions have probably left Earth to make a home in the stars, how many people could be left on the home world and why is it good to live anywhere but Earth?

I think Riker speaks French al the time too. Alaska. Plenty of Canadians hokey-pokeying the boarder. Why else would that kid from Lower decks think the Enterprise's XO was Canadian if it wasn't for all that frog we could still hear running under the UT's reexpression into something comprehensible?

 

[Timewalker]

I think Riker speaks French al the time too. Alaska. Plenty of Canadians hokey-pokeying the boarder. Why else would that kid from Lower decks think the Enterprise's XO was Canadian if it wasn't for all that frog we could still hear running under the UT's reexpression into something comprehensible?

Come again? Check an atlas - The only part of Canada that borders Alaska is the Yukon Territory. There are not very many French speakers there. It's either English or various First Nations/Inuit languages.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I play Risk plenty.

It was an atomic war.

Refugees are going to walk if they have to as far away from the fallout as possible till that stop having mutant deformed babies from drinking bad water.

Something mental was going on with all that Franco Pride Picard had, he was speaking with an English accent (Robin Hood: men in tights flashback?), hells in Generations he spoke with pride about how there had been a Picard at Trafalgar without mentioning that that Picard was most probably hip deep in English blood... You know, except that it was a naval battle and that the French got their asses kicked completely... So maybe it's self loathing? Either the Universal Translator is just spitting out an English accent, and English because there's no reason he shouldn't be speaking French (Although what about all the telepaths he's met? Can Lwaxanna read minds in French?) since Jean-Luc was born and raised in France and his brother who was born raised and living in France also appeared to speak with a British accent, unless the French lost a war so completely to the English in the 21st century that the French language was exterminated to it's final whimper?

 

[Timewalker]

I can assure you that refugees are NOT going to walk from Quebec and Acadia to the Yukon! And what does playing Risk have to do with anything?

And who cares what kind of accent Picard has? France has yo-yo'd back and forth between being owned by the French and English for many many centuries already. It's quite possible that Picard and his brother spent part of their childhood/teen years in England, long enough to pick up the accent. Or maybe some members of their household spoke with an English accent and they picked it up.

I lived with my grandparents for decades, and picked up my grandfather's Swedish accent to some extent. It doesn't mean I ever lived in Sweden or even visited there - it just means that there's more than one way that people can pick up accents.

 

[mswood]

I think Riker speaks French al the time too. Alaska. Plenty of Canadians hokey-pokeying the boarder. Why else would that kid from Lower decks think the Enterprise's XO was Canadian if it wasn't for all that frog we could still hear running under the UT's reexpression into something comprehensible?

Come again? Check an atlas - The only part of Canada that borders Alaska is the Yukon Territory. There are not very many French speakers there. It's either English or various First Nations/Inuit languages.

Well in my many trips in the Yukon, I have meet several french speakers. In fact the only place I have ever been that had more was France.

Of course the part of Canada I have been in the most is the Yukon as I did leave in Alaska for 25 years.

But for all I know those I have meet were like me tourists, hikers, and campers.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I actually have no ill will against the French, it's just that France, hell even Canada and America are all so far away from where in the world I live that I am removed and disaffected, but back to being very rude again...

Timewalker seyz
I can assure you that refugees are NOT going to walk from Quebec and Acadia to the Yukon! And what does playing Risk have to do with anything?

Perched over a highly inaccurate map for hours on end threatening to rape and pillage my friends? Welling up horsies and cannons in Alberta till it's such a mass saturation of deadly Calvary and artillery that the North-western Territories have vacated to a single man pissing his jodhpurs in terror waiting for my inevitable MARCH OF DOOM which will conquer both North and South America! Yup, there's few better ways to sum up the lay of the land than by trying to... What's a little genocide between friends?

I can honestly say that I have spent a thousand times longer playing Risk over the years than I ever spent studying geography as a schoolboy, not that the basic shape of the world isn't some thing you're just supposed to pick up with osmosis from standing on it... But the game board in question shows Canada and shows Alaska... Even though if during the era the game is set, that Russia certainly still owned Alaska.

 

[Finn]

I think Riker speaks French al the time too. Alaska. Plenty of Canadians hokey-pokeying the boarder. Why else would that kid from Lower decks think the Enterprise's XO was Canadian if it wasn't for all that frog we could still hear running under the UT's reexpression into something comprehensible?

Come again? Check an atlas - The only part of Canada that borders Alaska is the Yukon Territory. There are not very many French speakers there. It's either English or various First Nations/Inuit languages.

I can assure you that refugees are NOT going to walk from Quebec and Acadia to the Yukon! And what does playing Risk have to do with anything?

And who cares what kind of accent Picard has? France has yo-yo'd back and forth between being owned by the French and English for many many centuries already. It's quite possible that Picard and his brother spent part of their childhood/teen years in England, long enough to pick up the accent. Or maybe some members of their household spoke with an English accent and they picked it up.

I lived with my grandparents for decades, and picked up my grandfather's Swedish accent to some extent. It doesn't mean I ever lived in Sweden or even visited there - it just means that there's more than one way that people can pick up accents.

Timewalker, Guy Gardener always has a funny take on things. A lot of his posts is like this. He usually knows these things, but this is just his style