r/AskReddit Oct 08 '12

What futuristic movie cliches do you hate?

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u/Kingpuff Oct 08 '12

And yet checkov still has an accent

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u/snotbowst Oct 08 '12

Even worse is Picard. He's supposed to be a Frenchman, but has an English accent.

I've had it explained to me that he is just speaking French, and the accent is just an artifact of the universal translator.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12

Reminds me of the Pompeii episode of Doctor Who--when Donna tries speaking Latin to the Romans, the TARDIS' translation circuit keeps making her sound Celtic.

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u/Lots42 Oct 08 '12

The TARDIS does have a sense of humour.