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Was it ever explained how a Romulan could be so Irish?

Did her family settle in Dublin after the supernova?

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[-] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 30 points 5 days ago

Her rescue transport had to make an unplanned pit stop at the Bringloidi colony.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

"I hear you're a Romulan now, Father!"

[-] jobbies@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

My lovely disruptor.

My lovely lovely lovely disruptor.

[-] T156@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago

Lots of planets have an Ireland.

It's time to harvest ye grapes ya fookin wank stain!

[-] dillekant@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago

It's a space accent. Any resemblance to Irish is just a coincidence.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

In much the same way some Romulans have ridges (Northerners) and others don't, regional accents could develope. Why hers is so distinctly Irish you kinda have to just roll with.

s1e3 "The End is the Beginning"

[-] docandersonn@literature.cafe 5 points 4 days ago

I liked the Doctor Who explanation for the 10th doctor's accent.

Rose: "If you're alien, why do you sound like you're from the north?" 10th Doctor: "Lots of planets have a north!"

[-] jobbies@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

So if she's from the south are we talking Cork? Waterford maybe?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

♪ Now the owner is Norwegian and the manager comes from Cork

And the lad that's holding up the bar says 'Only Eejits Work'

He was born and bred in Bolton but his mammy's from Kildare

And he's going to make his fortune soon and move to County Clare ♪

[-] alpine_jim@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago

she spent her career on a D'Derrydex class warbird.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Just mind uncle Colm. Not Meany, the other one.

[-] Tango@piefed.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Why did Neelix have an American accent? Why do some Cardassians like Gul Dukat and Elim Garak have American accents and other Cardassians like Gul Madred have British accents?

[-] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Why does Picard, the most Frenchman, speak with such a posh British accent? ^^

[-] Jobe@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That one was explained by the Picards moving to England at the start of WW2 and the first Picards to move back being Jean-Lucs parents

[-] Tango@piefed.ca 5 points 4 days ago

That one actually has an explanation. Apparently by the time of TNG, nobody actually speaks French anymore. Picard gets annoyed when Data describes French as an archaic language. Maybe the English language became the primary language of the European Union? It already is, to some extent.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Picard at least swears in French. He says 'merde' in The Last Outpost.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

English is arcaic too. It must be your tv translator that got stuck in English instead of standard Esperanto.

[-] HieroProtagonist@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

In der Zukunft wird DEUTSCH gesprochen, damit das klar ist!!1!

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

She’s ex Tal shiar.

They’ve been known to do ridiculous things to infiltrate places and kill people.

I assume the “southerners” are way more zealous and changed themselves to look not-romulan. (Vulcan and human are obvious choices)

[-] jobbies@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

She’s ex Tal shiar. They’ve been known to do ridiculous things to infiltrate places and kill people.

So she was Tal Shiar and needed to inflitrate Dublin?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Star fleet, sure.

And humans dominate Star fleet for some (out of universe) reason

[-] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Didn't humans more or less form Starfleet and the Federation?

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Along with andorians and tellurites and Vulcans, yes.

Now tell me how many andorians/vulcans/tellurites you see on the show? How many are named, recurring characters? Main characters?

You might have 1 main-character Vulcan and a few more recurring per show. Maybe a small handful of recurring andorians, here and there.

[-] edible_funk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Well Vulcans more or less fucked off after humoring us with the Federation. Like they're around but mostly do their own thing. And Starfleet is headquartered on earth so clearly more humans would be interested in joining. And are any other cultures in trek as fully post scarcity gay space utopia as humans are? I don't actually know much of anything about andorians or tellurites though.

[-] darkmogool@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't now… All caracters have (almost) the same German accent to me… I guess your translator have some problems…

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