Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 2x04 - "Watcher"

I have been wondering why Picard sounded so British ever since I saw the first TNG episode back in college in the 80s.

 

The implication I got when Picard was talking about the chateau was that the family didn't move back to it until after WW3. So they probably retreated there to avoid whatever actions might have involved England.

 

Have you also wondered why the overwhelming majority of Star Trek characters who are not from America sound American?

 

Aren't you a glutton for punishment.

 

down the only road i've ever known.

 

The Monkey Highway?

 

How about another 10 pages of time travel?

Alien Spanish Scottish Egyptian

Typical fan logic. Leaping from point A to E

 

Anytime I see a picture of Stewart trying to look smooth all I can think is.




"And all her clothes just fall off"

 

Do I give a shit about that question... no.

 

Highlander II doesn't count. It was just a Benny Russell short story.

 

Then why you give shit about Picard's British accent?

It just America-centrism. Like in the first season people were finding Laris' Irish accent weird; she should have instead spoken with an American accent, which of course is the natural accent for space aliens!

 

Life is a Monkey Highway!

I wanna ride with Monkeys all night long!

 

Find a new hobby.

 

Cool. Instead of examining your potential internalised biases you can of course always choose to be rude instead.

 

Speaking of accents, I’ve always found it amusing that Deanna Troi has this funny made-up accent, but both her mother and father had American accents. Not to mention that Worf grew up with Russian foster parents who had accents, but for some reason he and his foster brother don’t have them.

Edit: I also realized that Laris says ‘Slainte.’ It’s almost like she’s not actually a Romulan, but an Irish lady with fake rubber pointed ears. Kinda like how Jean-Luc Picard isn’t Jean-Luc Picard, but Patrick Stewart playing himself. (rimshot)

 

Who ever designed the Universal Translator must have been from New York.

 

I’ve been on the BBS since the early 00s. My first week on the site there was a thread in the TNG how absurd it was a French man spoke with a British accent and they should’ve changed the name and history of the character. It’s been talked a lot about.

 

ad nauseam

 

Yes, and it was a nonsensical ethnocentric complaint from the get go.