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Sol System
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I really doubt it. And Hoshi simply mispronounced "Romulans." I can't see reading anything else into it.
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But she could have said "Rodians" but she said "Romolans" which is cute - cause it's the other version of the name Romulus.

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It's dead, Jim...

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So, who wants to discuss the admiral dude (i forget which) that made the mispronunciation of "Klingon" in the pilot....???

[ April 14, 2003, 11:07 PM: Message edited by: Futurama Guy ]

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Admiral Leonard, actually. [Razz]

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That was just for cheap laughs and non-fans.

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No, its the same thing...: NOTHING!!!!


Certainly if I were pronouncing the name of an ALIEN SPECIES for the first time I wouldn't get it right...

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quote:
Originally posted by AndrewR:
That was just for cheap laughs and non-fans.

I'm pretty sure that a sizeable percentage of the non-fan population (that actually watched TV) has heard the term "Klingons" before.

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I think that was the point. If someone mispronounced "Mintakan" or something, your average television viewer wouldn't know it until the other characters said something. If someone mispronounces "Klingon", though, Joe Couchpotato can say to himself "ha-ha, that dork said 'Klingon' wrong; what a moron".
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Thankyou TSN - that's what I meant.

Ok that's twice in one thread... do *I* need Hoshi? (well yes - but that's beside the point!) [Wink]

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quote:
Originally posted by AndrewR:
I liked how Hoshi heard "Romolan" - i.e. you hear of Romulus and Remus or Romolo and Remus. What is the origin of the two types of names - just translation?

Upon rewatching it and catching the cc on the spelling she said "Romalin"...therefore making it be just her translation and nothing more sinisterly in-depth than that. [Big Grin]


Also, the thing that bothered me was the incident where Malcolm basically tried to moreless attempt suicide and Archer told him he was lucky he doesn't bust him back to crewman for that stunt and so on....

Why, oh why, the hell is this guy still serving on this ship??! I'm pretty sure that any officer of the modern navies or other branch that attempted suicide as 'the easy way out' would have had his ass canned in a heartbeat, but nothing came of Malcolms incident whatsoever. That is some piss poor decipline if you ask me, Picard would gave him shit about it like Worf always got. Lets not forget to mention the fact that Archer now has a frickin' suicidal Armory officer...! [Roll Eyes]

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Different command styles. And it actually makes Malcolm a *gasp* interesting character.

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Yeah, he was acting kind of weird around Trip in the finale...

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quote:
Originally posted by Futurama Guy:
Also, the thing that bothered me was the incident where Malcolm basically tried to moreless attempt suicide and Archer told him he was lucky he doesn't bust him back to crewman for that stunt and so on....

Why, oh why, the hell is this guy still serving on this ship??! I'm pretty sure that any officer of the modern navies or other branch that attempted suicide as 'the easy way out' would have had his ass canned in a heartbeat, but nothing came of Malcolms incident whatsoever. That is some piss poor decipline if you ask me, Picard would gave him shit about it like Worf always got. Lets not forget to mention the fact that Archer now has a frickin' suicidal Armory officer...! [Roll Eyes]

He was just trying to do the "honorable" thing and sacrifice himself to save the ship. He was mistaken, of course. But the fact that that's what his motivation was somewhat excuses him...

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