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For someone who grew up in London, he seems to have a pretty poor grasp of his native accent. Was it a deliberate decision to cast someone with a noticeably American twang (technical term, lol) in the role, or is it just another advertisement for the "Cryptic Studios Home for Incompetent Actors"?
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2410 is as far away from us as we are from Shakespeare. Accents are likely fairly different.
I wouldn't worry about it too much
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
^^ This.
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I retract my statement
I LOL'd :P
But yeah, accents don't mean squat in the 25th man
And O'Brian aside, trek in particular does not have the best track record with Irish characters.
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If you really want to cringe listen to the pathetic efforts they made at the scots accent in neverwinter, sounds like someone trying not to vomit.
Along the same lines but what is with that klingons hair cut? With the lack of cranial ridges it makes them hard to find amidst the mob.
Anyway, I believe it's been said recently by a dev (can't remember) that hair is one of their worst in-game assets at the moment. Probably because it's still a holdover from the rushed launch of STO
Been playing STO since Open Beta, and have never regarded anything as worse than 'meh', if only due to personal standards.
There was a voiced redshirt female lt commander for DS9 during the FE.
It's canon for Frenchmen not to sound French. Chief example, Jean-Luc Picard, a Frenchman with an English accent.
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Can't say fairer than than that.
I was actually pleased to see he was from London.
And as for Picard and his English French...well, maybe hes descended from English Immigrants. Or just learnt his Federation Basic (aka English) well enough to not have an accent.
All this business around accents changing by the future?
Well..its not that far in the future, so yeah its just bad acting.
Trek has some very decent London/English accents in it (Julian Bashir and family) and I believe the books even recently outed Ian Andrew Troi as being from London as a way to explain why Deanna (after Marina giving up her exotic alien accent she worked hard on, making her sound slightly d'eaf' as would suit a person not used to hearing people speak on a planet where people communicate telepathically, because Majel didn't bother as Lwxana) sounds like an east end girl quite a lot by the time of the TNG movies.
So yeah.
Its not hard to find someone to do a bit of VO work in this day and age, they can probably Skype it in and clean up the audio a bit to get accents right from all over the world.
The hilarity of a proper cockney handing one of Treks standard big scarey aliens its A*** with some standard issue London sarcasm or phrasing would be entertaining. Stick a Glaswegian and a Northern Irishman next to him for a fight scene that would make the Klingons seem tame and also possibly more intelligible to the untrained ear.
"Get that stitched dahn Barts you ugly B******" snarled Lieutenant Smith as he nutted the hirogen.
"See you" growled MacDonald as he gave his unlucky delta quadrant warrior some more of the same.
"Now lads" drawled Fergus, the engineer rolling his uniform sleeves up "save some of the fe***** for me will ya?"
And two short hours later, the entire hirogen hierarchy was sorted and applying for federation membership, while our erstwhile heroes were down the pub.
She was Scottish.
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Sulu sees what you did there.
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As a Scotsman myself I can assure you, that is one hell of a weird Scottish accent if it is one.
But maybe, just maybe, that's exactly what you sound like to Americans.
But I'm just taking it as "the future."
What's more interesting to me is how many Americans and English and Scottish and Irish people there are in the future. If half the world right now is Asian, shouldn't they be more represented in the future? What about Latinos (hundreds of millions of them now!)? Is there some plague that wipes almost everyone out who isn't in an English-speaking country?
Survey says...
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
And I'd say that a lot of the no-names are doing better than the stars, like that maw lady in viscous cycle (opening the MAAAAAW DOOOOAAAAHS), the female dance instructor on Risa, the singing Klingon in Doomsday Device, Hakeev, Farek.... I just try to ignore the accents because, hey, they might just be a product of universal translator.
I always pitied Colm Meaney during episodes like "Up the Long Ladder" for that very reason, and respected his professionalism for still managing to keep a straight face and do his job in spite of that.
Now I'm imagining a bloodied, dirtied London-born redshirt surrounded by a bunch of beaten down aliens shouting, "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!"
That or the Universal Translator shorting out trying to understand a group of quarreling Yorkshire and Lancastermen.
Well it's certainly not Irish. And she sounds exactly like a Scottish teacher I had in school.
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A Starfleet officer with a thick Yorkshire accent, I think I'd do that for Cryptic for free :P.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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not just Picard, every frenchman had an English accent
please, it has to be a Geordie in the shipyard, ideally somewhere very cold with his shirt off
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Every Brit sounds like either Richard or Eddie, from Bottom, to me.
That's a great idea
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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They do say history has a way of repeating itself. :eek:
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