Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 1x03 - "The End is the Beginning"

[BillJ]

Could just be that the actress is sensitive to sunlight.

 

[Alan Roi]

What's with your total non sequitur? No human character ever wore sunglasses on Trek. A Vulcan would need them even less.

Geordie wasn't a perfect physical specimen of humanity where it came to his eyes and optical nerves. Isn't it possible that some Vulcans aren't perfect specimens of their species? And yes, when it was required, characters in Star Trek have worn eye protection.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Eyewear

Honestly, just about every time someone says "That's never happened in Star Trek" I can find a half dozen times it has.

 

[oberth]

What's with your total non sequitur? No human character ever wore sunglasses on Trek. A Vulcan would need them even less.

archer crossing the forge

 

[BillJ]

archer crossing the forge

I totally forgot that one.

 

[oberth]

I totally forgot that one.

to quote benjamin s: 'old man'

 

[SolarisOne]

[*Reads last few pages of thread, sets self-destruct sequence*]

[*Reads last few pages of thread; spits industrial-grade space acid.*]

 

[oberth]

[*Reads last few pages of thread; spits industrial-grade space acid.*]

in what direction

 

[Longinus]

It's funny and incongruous hearing a Romulan speaking in any Earth accent, unless they were born and bred there.....

Not really. Many people learn to speak foreign language so well that they're indistinguishable from an native speaker. It just so happens that if on a TV show that native level accent is anything besides American people have a problem with it...

 

[137th Gebirg]

It’s nothing more than a minor algorithmic bug in the linguistics transformation matrix of the universal translator.

 

[Greg Cox]

Not really. Many people learn to speak foreign language so well that they're indistinguishable from an native speaker. It just so happens that if in a TV show that the native level accent is anything besides American people have a problem with it...

I still remember a TV production of JOAN OF ARC in which the English characters all spoke with British accents, but Joan and her allies all spoke with American accents!

Guess somebody figured the only way to get American audiences to root for the French against the English was to make the French sound more American.

 

[oberth]

Not really. Many people learn to speak foreign language so well that they're indistinguishable from an native speaker. It just so happens that if in a TV show that the native level accent is anything besides American people have a problem with it...

it depends on the teacher - there were two spanish counts who spoke perfect german and got their luggage stolen on the railways. when they reported to the railway police in berlin they were locked up.

their problem was that their german teacher was from saxony - and the saxonian dialect being considered the worst ...

as a matter of fact the imperial (ours) ambassador to spain went to appologize several times for that incident

 

[oberth]

I still remember a TV production of JOAN OF ARC in which the English characters all spoke with British accents, but Joan her allies all spoke with American accents!

Guess somebody figured the only way to get American audiences to root for the French against the English was to make the French sound more American.

i buy that every second

 

[Alan Roi]

It’s nothing more than a minor algorithmic bug in the linguistics transformation matrix of the universal translator.

Its not a bug. Its a feature.

 

[oberth]

Its not a bug. Its a feature.

i won't believe for a second that microsoft still exists in the 24th century

 

[SolarisOne]

#CheekyFeckersForever

 

[Alan Roi]

I still remember a TV production of JOAN OF ARC in which the English characters all spoke with British accents, but Joan her allies all spoke with American accents!

Guess somebody figured the only way to get American audiences to root for the French against the English was to make the French sound more American.

That's fair. It's almost impossible to root for the French under normal circumstances no matter who they are up against.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Trek has always been more subtle about such things, not beating you over the head with it. At least before the painfully unfunny "double dumbass on you" or Data being "fully functional." We never saw Kirk actually in bed with anyone. There's a difference between addressing today's situations and adopting the mannerisms and lingo of today, which will probably be dated within 10-20 years. Good thing TNG never used "radical" the way this show used "pro tip." TOS never had political intrigue within Starfleet and TNG avoided it for the most part, with the notable exception of "Chain of Command," "The Pegasus" and "Conspiracy," although the last didn't really count because that was alien parasites, not actual Starfleet officers.

Trek has never been subtle about anything.

 

[oberth]

That's fair. It's almost impossible to root for the French under normal circumstances no matter who they are up against.

actually, we never did that

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Not really. Many people learn to speak foreign language so well that they're indistinguishable from an native speaker. It just so happens that if on a TV show that native level accent is anything besides American people have a problem with it...

I had a German friend who learned British English through high school, but then went to college in Louisiana. That was an interesting accent. And another friend who was Swedish but lived in the state of Georgia for several years (in Savannah, I think). That was an interesting one, too.

 

[oberth]

I had a German friend who learned British English through high school, but then went to college in Louisiana. That was an interesting accent. And another friend who was Swedish but lived in the state of Georgia for several years (in Savannah, I think). That was an interesting one, too.

are there any american accents?