Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x07 - "What Is Starfleet?"

[IMC Headquarters]

I wonder if Uhura read Lionel Hardcastle's autobiography, My Life in Kenya.

 

[fireproof78]

We're on a Trek board. Most of us, including the poster in question, know that Uhura is from Kenya even if played by Americans

Kirk was from Iowa played by a Canadian.
Scotty a Scotsman played by a Canadian.
Spock a Vulcan played by a Jewish American, surprisingly not a alien.

 

[Yistaan]

And really the only reason Jess Bush uses an American accent is because the Chapel character always used an American accent.

I don't really see a problem.

Someone forgot to tell Babs Olusanmokun who trots out that fake accent that he neither uses in real life nor did M'Benga use in TOS.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Korby has an Irish accent now. Deal with it.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Shatner has an accent. People think he overacts. And sometimes he is overacting. But more often it is his accent.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Korby has an Irish accent now. Deal with it.

At least the actor is Irish. Although it sounds weirdly like a fake Irish accent. Maybe it's because I think he sounds like Colin Farrell who used to be accused of faking his accent.

 

[Artoo Atari]

I honestly wouldn't mind having more accents on the show, especially accents consistent with the character. For example, in Picard, Shaw identifies himself as being from Chicago and he sounds it (I believe Stashwick is actually from Chicago).

Natural accents are also nice. Instead of listening to Scotty and hearing a faux-Scottish accent, now we can say, "Hey, Scotty's from Paisley."

 

[fireproof78]

Korby has an Irish accent now. Deal with it.

Since when do actors play people they're not remotely like?

 

[IMC Headquarters]

*Irish Vulcan in Section 31*

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

*Irish Vulcan in Section 31*

I still can't figure out what was going through the mind there. All I can think is they really wanted Robert Sheehan and just told whatever guy they could afford to just go with it.

 

[Tuskin38]

Jörg Hillebrand (@gaghyogi49.bsky.social)

The riddle has already been solved: the vinyl album in Erica Ortegas' quarters in #StarTrekSNW's "What is Starfleet?" is "Irish Cowboy Country Blues" by Sean Fhéile. Melissa Navia's late husband Brian Bannon played on this album. This is such a sweet tribute!

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I still can't figure out what was going through the mind there. All I can think is they really wanted Robert Sheehan and just told whatever guy they could afford to just go with it.

The irish accent was the actor's idea according to an interview he did with TrekCulture. He also threw in American and his native South African accent during the audition.

 

[Trekker4747]

I still can't figure out what was going through the mind there. All I can think is they really wanted Robert Sheehan and just told whatever guy they could afford to just go with it.

That entire movie is, "what is going on here?"

 

[MarcKyle1964]

That's just AI in the 23rd century.

Please state the nature of the medical emergency

 

[Fateor]

It's a problem I have had with all Kurtztrek not just Uhura but to me practically everyone in the main crews looks and sounds like they are from Hollywood. It's an American show and always was but recent series seem to have a very specific casting style.

Generally these days if you want your character to be from Kenya hire an actor from Kenya. Star Trek more than anyone else should do better in that regard.

General reminder that the universal translator gives a person an American accent when translating another language into Federation Standard.

Which is just American English.

The handful of people who have "accents" in the show would be the handful of people who are speaking non-American English or learned how to speak English from a non-American source.

 

[Yistaan]

*Irish Vulcan in Section 31*

Have you forgotten Picard's Romulan-Irish housekeeper/girlfriend? That was arguably even more jarring.