Why does Senator Vreenak speak in a Southern accent?
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The accent is a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!
Lots of planets have a South.
Canadian actually, Stephen McHattie.
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S*** that what I was gonna sayHe's from Southern Romulus.
Another one of those botched first contact situation. In this case, via subspace radio only.
The Romulans wanted to learn how to speak perfect English so they requested audio recordings of humans speaking perfect English. As a joke, the humans sent recordings of people speaking in southern drawls and as a result, people keeps laughing when the Romulans try to speak English.
Like some Star Trek fans, the Romulans have no sense of humor so the Earth-Romulan war was the result. Most Romulans were eventually able to get rid of the accent but some like Vreenak were never able to which explains why he hates humans so much.
Robert
The Romulans wanted to learn how to speak perfect English so they requested audio recordings of humans speaking perfect English. As a joke, the humans sent recordings of people speaking in southern drawls and as a result, people keeps laughing when the Romulans try to speak English.
Like some Star Trek fans, the Romulans have no sense of humor so the Earth-Romulan war was the result. Most Romulans were eventually able to get rid of the accent but some like Vreenak were never able to which explains why he hates humans so much.
Robert
He's from Southern Romulus.
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Why does he have a Southern accent?
Maybe because he's a green neck?
Get it? Green neck? Instead of red neck? Because Romulans bleed green and ...
Aw heck, I'm allowed to make a bad joke every now and then, aren't I?
Maybe because he's a green neck?
Get it? Green neck? Instead of red neck? Because Romulans bleed green and ...
Aw heck, I'm allowed to make a bad joke every now and then, aren't I?
My question:
Why not?
All alien characters are going to speak English with an accent. Any accent makes the same absolute lack of sense.
Farscape sort of threw me when I found myself in a universe where all the aliens speak with Australian accents, but that's just because I was used to all aliens speaking with American accents from predominantly Star Trek viewing... which made equal nonsense, when one stops to think about it.
Accent screwups can only really exist when we're talking about humans, like Picard's... flawless rural French accent.
Really. That's pitch perfect Provencal.
Compared to Stewart's 'French' accent and the 'Russian' and 'Scottish' accents of the original show, DS9 did pretty well with Colm Meaney's authentic Irish accent and Alexander Sidding's authentic British accent. Good to go, there.
Why not?
All alien characters are going to speak English with an accent. Any accent makes the same absolute lack of sense.
Farscape sort of threw me when I found myself in a universe where all the aliens speak with Australian accents, but that's just because I was used to all aliens speaking with American accents from predominantly Star Trek viewing... which made equal nonsense, when one stops to think about it.
Accent screwups can only really exist when we're talking about humans, like Picard's... flawless rural French accent.
Really. That's pitch perfect Provencal.
Compared to Stewart's 'French' accent and the 'Russian' and 'Scottish' accents of the original show, DS9 did pretty well with Colm Meaney's authentic Irish accent and Alexander Sidding's authentic British accent. Good to go, there.
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I lurk and can be found reading threads about Kira and Odo, or, Romulans.
Plus, I liked Vreenak. I was *pissed* at Garak for rubbing out such as a delicious example of a Romulan man.
Hi! Welcome to the DS9 forum!
I lurk and can be found reading threads about Kira and Odo, or, Romulans.
Totally understood...I am the same way about Cardassians.
Why does he have a Southern accent?
Maybe because he's a green neck?
Get it? Green neck? Instead of red neck? Because Romulans bleed green and ...
Aw heck, I'm allowed to make a bad joke every now and then, aren't I?
That's ok, Vortas don't have a sense of humor, so that was a pretty good joke, considering.
More precisely, we were hearing the aliens from John Crichton's point of view. Something in his mentality caused him to interpret alien speech as sounding Australian. I always wondered what the heck that came from? Was his mother scared by a kangaroo when she was pregnant with him?
Funny enough, about different properties having a different "sound"...I am actually more used to hearing the Star Wars prequels in Spanish than I am in English (makes the awful dialogue more tolerable, plus it gives me practice ), and in my head, most of the characters speak Spanish rather than English. (Jar-Jar's accent is interesting there...to me it actually sounds like it MIGHT be Portuguese.) Especially Palpatine. If you've ever heard the voice actor who does Palpatine's voice on the North American Spanish dub, it is just SO perfectly slimy and seductive, that he has become that character's voice permanently, in my head.
), and in my head, most of the characters speak Spanish rather than English. (Jar-Jar's accent is interesting there...to me it actually sounds like it MIGHT be Portuguese.) Especially Palpatine. If you've ever heard the voice actor who does Palpatine's voice on the North American Spanish dub, it is just SO perfectly slimy and seductive, that he has become that character's voice permanently, in my head.
