Why does Senator Vreenak speak in a Southern accent?

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm still trying to figure out why Anakin and Vader have different accents. And to bring this round to the actual discussion, Vader's accent sounds Southern without the drawl...more clipped, which makes it intriguingly difficult to pinpoint. I wish Anakin had that accent too, but then again I wish so many things, starting with Anakin being portrayed like they're doing in Clone Wars, and the plotline being written well instead of horribly, etc.

 

[Itisnotlogical]

Now, I'll have ya'll know that that darnged accent wuz a FAAAAKE. Ya'lls see, Mistah Vree-nak was hittin' the bottle little hard, so he moseyed on down tah his quarters to watch some No Galaxy for Old Romulans...

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I'm still trying to figure out why Anakin and Vader have different accents. And to bring this round to the actual discussion, Vader's accent sounds Southern without the drawl...more clipped, which makes it intriguingly difficult to pinpoint. I wish Anakin had that accent too, but then again I wish so many things, starting with Anakin being portrayed like they're doing in Clone Wars, and the plotline being written well instead of horribly, etc.

I've seen it suggested that Vader was using a speech synthesizer...

 

[Goliath]

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.

The OT is pretty interesting to watch in French, as well.

"Non: j'suis ton pere!"

"Non. Non--ce n'est pas vrai. Ce n'est pas possible!"

I should try watching DS9 in French, sometime.

 

[PorthosShadow]

at least he wasn't from Potataho

If I could give rep points you would get as many as possible for referencing Lexx

 

[Sci]

Is the actor from the South? And would the casting staff have developed the character this way, or would the director have told the actor to speak like that?

Why would Spock speak in an American Midwestern accent?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I've seen it suggested that Vader was using a speech synthesizer...

That neatly solves the problem but the notion that Vader's accent is unplaceable always added a bit to his mystique - it implied that wherever he was from, very few other people were from there.

It also doesn't explain why his accent changes yet again when Luke takes off the helmet.

And I thought that Spock had a New England accent?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

I've seen it suggested that Vader was using a speech synthesizer...

That neatly solves the problem but the notion that Vader's accent is unplaceable always added a bit to his mystique - it implied that wherever he was from, very few other people were from there.

It also doesn't explain why his accent changes yet again when Luke takes off the helmet.

Speaking with his real voice, rather than a computer?

It's not impossible...Stephen Hawking's synthesizer had an American accent even though he is British.

 

[T'Bonz]

That's ok, Vortas don't have a sense of humor...

Damn it, a perfect mod candidate based on that alone, yet you turned it down.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm already too power-mad, don't tempt me.

Speaking with his real voice, rather than a computer?

I mean, why does his real voice accent change 25 years later compared to when he was young?

 

[flandry84]

It has probably been asked before but why does Deanna Troi have a markedly different accent from her mother and father?

 

[Green Shirt]

Is the actor from the South

Canadian actually, Stephen McHattie.

Doesn't Canada have a South?

 

[iguana_tonante]

Yes, it's called the USA.

 

[Joshonator]

Lol i noticed he had a southern accent too. I was thinking "that's kinda weird" but then again there's no reason for him not so since every actor has some kind of accent so why not southern.

 

[DEWLine]

Lots of planets have a South.

Overly belated thanks for this!

 

[DEWLine]

Doesn't Canada have a South?

It does, but explaining what constitutes our version of it could take a few paragraphs, possibly with reference to the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami.

 

[Tulaberry whine]

I never really noticed Vreenak's accent in ITPM. Grathon Tolar's, on the other hand, immediately had me scratching my head.

 

[DS9 Gal AZ]

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.

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.

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?

Thanks Temis, but as for Vorta's not having a sense of humor I beg to differ with some Weyoun quotes:

Weyoun: There's something different about you Damar ... ah, you don't have a bottle in your hand.
Weyoun: Time to start packing!

Anyway, back on topic, I never noticed the supposed Southern accent until people pointed it out here.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

Is the actor from the South

Canadian actually, Stephen McHattie.

Doesn't Canada have a South?

I joke that I live in South West Canada

BTW did Mr. McHattie come across as bit of a jerk in that interviewÉ

 

[DS9 Gal AZ]

It has probably been asked before but why does Deanna Troi have a markedly different accent from her mother and father?

I believe Marina Siritis was asked to try a sort of Eastern European accent blended with something else when she spoke as Troi, I guess as a way to remind the audience that, despite her very human appearance, she was really "an alien" - well, half an alien, anyway. I do think the accent dropped out after a few seasons though. We certainly never heard her mother speak like that.