• MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I read once that the original plan was for the captain to be French but Patrick Stewart killed it so hard in the audition they were like fuck it, I guess he’ll be British.

    But when he goes to his childhood home it is a vineyard in France, but nobody has a French accent, everyone either has a British or American accent.

    • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      There’s a comment in TNG’s first season about French being a dead language. I’m guessing that was meant to hand wave Picard’s accent.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      My headcanon after seeing that episode was just that Fr*nce was conquered by Britain during world war 3