If Worf was raised in Russia for most of his life, how come he didn't have a Russian accent? Why come he didn't know what prune juice was until he was a grown ass adult? Why does he seem oblivious to human customs at different points in the series?
If Worf was raised in Russia for most of his life, how come he didn't have a Russian accent?
Word wasn't a prominent character until they killed off the Tash Yar character.
I think its an inside joke...but I'm not sure on Star Trek 'Canon' but Trek history says Russia gets messed up pretty bad in WW3, its not really Russia anymore and they survive but its a Mad Max mix of Arabs, Swedish, Japanese, Mongolians etc 2025–2050-ish there is lots of genocide, eco-terror and everyone is messed up but the USA is one of the first to slowly bounce back after nuclear cataclysm building a magic warp spaceship with 'First Contact' in the 21st century . Borders crumble and after WW3 there were a bunch of Eugenics Wars and Civil Wars etc The Q entity in TNG series shows WW3 and drops Picard into a trial during the post-atomic horror. There could be a joke element of him being 'Russian' because original Captain Kirk TOS Klingons were based on Mongols, Russian and Soviet culture. At the end of the day its an entertainment 'show' but a fanatic might take it all very serious.
Stop asking questions anon. It was the best written show ever and I’ll hear no more about it
>WHAT HAST THOU BUILT, PICARD?
Minsk
Worf was not raised in Russia for most of his life. Worf spent the first five years of his life with his biological parents, then lived with the Rozhenkos for at least eight years on a farming colony, then lived in Belarus for at most two years, before then going on a pilgrimage to Qo’noS and then returning to Earth to join Starfleet.
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>lives in belarus
>does not know what prune juice is
nice writing
Why isn't Jean-Luc French?
French is a dead archaic language according to Data
Jean-Luc probably learned his english early
Picard S2 establishes that Picard’s family fled France during WW2, became anglicised, before then eventually returning to the Chateau.
Before this, there was a theory that France was utterly destroyed during WW3 and that there is an ongoing international project to restore France. That’s why Paris is the headquarters of the executive branch of the Federation and why the Picard family can get away with owning a massive estate. Also why Data says French is an archaic language and Picard gets pissed. Also, if you look at how Paris is depicted in the 24th century in TNG everything except the Eiffel Tower was seemingly replaced, which would never happen unless the city was completely destroted. The fact that Picard left France for Starfleet could also be a source of conflict between Robert and him because the former feels like it’s their duty to aid in the French reclamation project.
In the future they put a transit tube under the Eiffel Tower? That's the least believable part of Star Trek.
Transit tube? That's a sewage pipe.
>Picard S2
this just sounds like a retcon
TOS and TNG's worldbuilding setup humanity as having stepped out of an apocalyptic global war into space travel and more enlightened worldviews
the more recent shows have all tried to downplay this
>this just sounds like a retcon
Well, duh, it has Picard's nutty mom being the driving force behind him going into space, which just never came up before.
The only canon that matters is TNG s4 Family
where they owned a vinyard but there wasnt even a chateau, they just had a house
No they still had a chateau in that episode
Huh I guess not then
>Picard S2
Ugh.
its because he murdered a soccer player
They've done transracial adoption studies and time and again they show that different races display different IQ scores regardless of environment. Raising a Klingon among Russian humans would not make him Russian. One of my favorite Worf episodes, Heart of Glory, demonstrates that Worf still feels the influence of his Klingon genetics.
The sample size is too small to draw any statistical conclusions space-chud
They've done studies disregarding race on the effects of environment on identical twins, and they found, unsurprisingly, that the twins' IQs were basically the same regardless of upbringing.
He had such a hardon for being accepted as a real Klingon he shunned all human things he learned.
Also he did not grow up in russia, he grew up with the Rozhenkos on the farming colony of Gault.
Worf is the equivalent of an ethnically Japanese kid raised by white parents in Wisconsin, who grew up as a stereotypical weeb, and then visits Japan as an adult and wonders why there are no Samurai, why nobody is wearing kimonos, why adults there don't watch anime, and also doesn't understand why actual Japanese people think he's cringe.
There are no accents in Gene Roddenberry's dystopian future, it's all mutts without real ethnical or racial identity. Any ethnic or religious symbols and historical artifacts on display are nothing more than stylish set dressing.
Chekov had an accent.
Did you even watch the show? Scotty's accent is so thick he sounds like the Scottish dude from Samurai Jack.
frick I love that scottish dude, that was a good episode- and the one where jack is taught how to jump really high
Why don't alien races in star trek object to having their planets being named and referred to by whatever the Federation wants? It would be like the Romulans being the authority calling earth Sol-III and Earthlings Solians.
Why don't comm-badges have built in body cams? You'd think visual feeds would be valuable in away missions. They did something like that in TNG with Geordie's visor but then promptly forgot about it.
Why aren't there more androids like Data? Well, not exactly like Data but made to serve functions without the same kind of self awareness (even TOS had such androids)
Why are the major powers in the quadrant (Federation/Klingons/Romulans/etc) all roughly at the same development stages? What caused powers like the Klingons to not take advantage of genetic engineering? (only reason humanity banned it was cause of Khan)