Counselor Deanna Troi
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This is what I've always assumed too.
If so, the fault truly lies with Mrs Roddenberry refusing to do the same accent in "Haven". That whole 'Your accent reminds me of your father' line was clearly nothing more than an obvious ass-pull to help explain away Majel's laziness.
We saw Deanna speaking with her father in an illusion in her mother's mind (damn telepaths!) and he has no accent either.
Maybe the reason that Deanna has an accent and Lwaxana does not is that Deanna is actually speaking English, and Lwaxana is speaking Betazoid, and we hear her through the universal translator.
Maybe the reason that Deanna has an accent and Lwaxana does not is that Deanna is actually speaking English, and Lwaxana is speaking Betazoid, and we hear her through the universal translator.
That's a good thought, but you'd think being a telepath she'd be able to learn a language pretty quickly though. At least that's how I see it.
If Gene Roddenberry had got his way, you'd have had three of them to look at.Accent? I was busy looking at her boobs.
Being able to learn a language and being willing to speak it are two entirely different things. Given Lwaxana's personality, I wouldn't be surprised if she felt her language was the official language of whatever room she walked into.
If Gene Roddenberry had got his way, you'd have had three of them to look at.Accent? I was busy looking at her boobs.
Sonya Gomez's actress had three boobs in Total Recall.
No accent? Everybody has an accent.
Troi's parents seemed to have American accents; Troi had a mixture of Sirtis' British accent w/ some vague European stuff thrown in.
Still, I enjoyed it when not comparing it to her parents' accents.
Troi always sounds just a little tipsy to me. like- a couple of glasses of chardonnay.
Just an example, but I sound nothing like my parents. I have been living in a different city for most of my life so I picked up the local accent, while my parents still speak with their native accents.
Troi's father might be American, and Lwaxana might speak with a "standard Betazed" accent (which would be most logically treated as an American accent in translation), while Troi might be speaking with a slightly different accent due to locality, associates, acquaintances, or just random happenstance.
Or Troi has a tiny speech impairment that sounds like a vaguely exotic accent.
This.
I am another that sounds nothing like my parents due to the distances I've travelled and the different socio-economic backgrounds I've mixed with.
