I wonder if Uhura read Lionel Hardcastle's autobiography, My Life in Kenya.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x07 - "What Is Starfleet?"
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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.
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.
Shatner has an accent. People think he overacts. And sometimes he is overacting. But more often it is his accent.
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.Korby has an Irish accent now. Deal with it.
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."
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."
Since when do actors play people they're not remotely like?Korby has an Irish accent now. Deal with it.
*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.*Irish Vulcan in Section 31*
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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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.
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Please state the nature of the medical emergencyThat's just AI in the 23rd century.
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.
Have you forgotten Picard's Romulan-Irish housekeeper/girlfriend? That was arguably even more jarring.*Irish Vulcan in Section 31*
She was lovely
My opinion on this episode is slipping a bit after a rewatch - it's still one of the better ones this season but something about the ending feels really artificial, like it's the writers just formulating exactly what they assume people want to hear. They've done this a few times now. Gooding's holodeck character giving the speech about why Star Trek is special, the final song in the musical episode about Starfleet being the coolest thing ever (which was very much earned in the context of the episode, don't get me wrong), etc.
It's starting to feel like the writers just talking to the viewer directly - Goldsman is aware that many fans liked the upbeat humanism and inclusivity of previous Star Trek series, and so characters in SNW repeatedly mention it directly or even just make metanarrative comments on Star Trek itself. But it's starting to sound hollow for me, it's more like the show is jarringly trying to assert itself as the "optimistic classic Trek" Goldsman mentions in PR stuff, instead of just writing stories that embody those values in an organic way. Had the script engaged with it more deeply, the story about the space creature could easily have conveyed all these themes without the characters having to literally look directly at the camera and recite them.
It's starting to feel like the writers just talking to the viewer directly - Goldsman is aware that many fans liked the upbeat humanism and inclusivity of previous Star Trek series, and so characters in SNW repeatedly mention it directly or even just make metanarrative comments on Star Trek itself. But it's starting to sound hollow for me, it's more like the show is jarringly trying to assert itself as the "optimistic classic Trek" Goldsman mentions in PR stuff, instead of just writing stories that embody those values in an organic way. Had the script engaged with it more deeply, the story about the space creature could easily have conveyed all these themes without the characters having to literally look directly at the camera and recite them.
Yes, the intro segment basically says that someone filed an FOI request for the footage that was declassified, presumably as part of that request.
Which is ironic because governments today would just black bar everything... although I don't know what that would look like for videos. Maybe they just leave in a black screen for parts of a video they'd want to keep classified.
Seriously?
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