Star Trek

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Radar

What part of America is Scottie from?

I don't know, but I'll have to ask Limey where in Scotland he's from, because I've never heard an accent like that before!
(yeah okay, I forgot - I was a Next Gen onwards fan, never thought of the original series.)

I think it would be funny to have some guy there with a thick Steve Irwin type of Australian Accent working the con...

A nation sadly overlooked in the Star Trek genre - and I agree it would be super superb. Hang on, wasn't there one in the last (crap) series?

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

And Sulu and Chekov and Uhura (who is/was/will be from Africa)?

Again, I never thought of Uhura as anything other than American, but I suppose that's because all the cast were foreign to me. I certainly don't remember her saying, "Jambo, Captain!" or eating goat

Sulu is presently in the Australian jungle eating rice and beans. He's a favourite to win I'm a Celeb this year, although the British voting public is notoriously fickle. In fact I'm killing time until the next episode at 21.00.

[Sheldonrs]

cough, cough, NERDS, cough, cough.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

cough, cough, NERDS, cough, cough.

Not nerds, geeks.

[wolf]

In re: Australians in Star Trek ...

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

A nation sadly overlooked in the Star Trek genre - and I agree it would be super superb. Hang on, wasn't there one in the last (crap) series?

Everybody knows that in the future Australia is a vast desert wasteland ruled over by evil warlords who control the scare resources and prance about in chainmail capes and skintight leggings, sporting well-coiffed bleach-blonde hair.

And of course, there is one lone man who opposes them all.

And his wacky friend with the one-man helicopter.

And a feral child.

And a dog.