quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Unless what Chekov was talking about wasn't Leningrad, but Leningradtm, just one of several such parks owned by Historical Amusments Ltd.
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: We don't need any sort of complicated explanation.
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Well, Chekov was either speaking Russian, or some sort of Federation Standard. Either way, it was translated into English for the television. But it was translated into 1960s English. Therefore the word he used meaning "the large Russian city located on an inlet of the Gulf of Finland" was translated into "Leningrad" rather than the now-appropriate "St. Petersburg".
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He could also have said "Lennongrad," a city founded by those damn dirty Beatles disciples.
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or the USSR will re-evolve sometime after WWIII and perfect the idea of communistic government, without being threatened by the other half of the world, and re-re-name all the affected cities.
Theyll realize their brief flirtation with capitalism was a mistake..
Hey, it could happen, right?
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