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

[Nerys Myk]

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

Reaches for disruptor under table

 

[Nerys Myk]

are there any american accents?

Many.

 

[oberth]

Many.

you don't say

 

[Nerys Myk]

you don't say

Yes, in several accents.

 

[thribs]

What's with Commodore Oh wearing sunglasses when she went to question Dr. Jurati? Why would a Vulcan need sunglasses on Earth? Vulcan has much more intense sunlight, as evidenced by Spock's third eyelid that protected him from light that would have fried the retinas of a human.

The actress was probably wearing them before shooting and forgot to take them off.

 

[oberth]

The actress was probably wearing them before shooting and forgot to take them off.

do you really believe hollywood is that incompetent - the 50s are over, dude

 

[thribs]

do you really believe hollywood is that incompetent - the 50s are over, dude

With Kurtzman, sure. I mean just look at the badges and pips. They’re always crooked.

 

[cooleddie74]

If she was wearing them there's an in-story reason. No director is just going to ignore or not notice a pair of 21st century Earth sunglasses on a late 24th century Vulcan or Romulan.

 

[Longinus]

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

Yeah, like when they intervened in the American revolution! In retrospect definitely a bad move.

 

[oberth]

With Kurtzman, sure. I mean just look at the badges and pips. They’re always crooked.

you really hate that guy?

 

[Alan Roi]

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

I'm a Canadian who lived most of my life in Toronto. Once when I worked with people in Buffalo, NY, they said I sounded British to them. When I visited the UK they all thought I was American based on my accent.

 

[oberth]

Yeah, like when they intervened in the American revolution! In retrospect definitely a bad move.

hä? you'd lost without them - are you some sort of a royalist?

 

[Alan Roi]

With Kurtzman, sure. I mean just look at the badges and pips. They’re always crooked.

That's referred to as a visual metaphor.

 

[oberth]

I'm a Canadian who lived most of my life in Toronto. Once when I worked with people in Buffalo, NY, they said I sounded British to them. When I visited the UK they all thought I was American based on my accent.

sounds kinda normal - all canucks i met spoke better english than the english - albeit with an accent

... i'm no way discussing americans here

 

[BillJ]

do you really believe hollywood is that incompetent - the 50s are over, dude

Check out the Starbucks cup that made it into Game of Thrones. Mistakes happen.

 

[Longinus]

hä? you'd lost without them - are you some sort of a royalist?

I'm a Finn* so I have no part in that. It is just funny how dismissive Americans are towards the French even though their nation wouldn't even exist without the French help.

(We also say 'hä' or 'häh' to express puzzlement BTW.)

 

[oberth]

Check out the Starbucks cup that made it into Game of Thrones. Mistakes happen.

that was kinda the 50s - or america
... the chosing is yours

 

[Nerys Myk]

With Kurtzman, sure. I mean just look at the badges and pips. They’re always crooked.

Trek is rife with missing pips, the wrong pips and wrong badges. Crooked is actually an improvement.

 

[oberth]

I'm a Finn* so I have no part in that. It is just funny how dismissive Americans are towards the French even though their nation wouldn't even exist without the French help.

(We also say 'hä' or 'häh' to express puzzlement BTW.)

okay - unless proven otherwise i'll take everyone as a yank in here

... yes, they do

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm a Finn* so I have no part in that. It is just funny how dismissive Americans are towards the French even though their nation wouldn't even exist without the French help.

(We also say 'hä' or 'häh' to express puzzlement BTW.)

Seems to have been a 20th Century development.