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A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.

Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman

Directed by Chris Fisher


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    1 year ago

    I am unsure how Lanthanites can have a distinct accent if they spent centuries successfully blending in, but I agree that it’s interesting.

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      1 year ago

      Structural differences in their larynx, tongue, or lips seem likely.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe they first arrived in Romania, centuries ago, or some such.

      Then once Earth discovered Romanians (or whatever) are actually different species, it put a lot of things in perspective.

      (like, the legends of vampires?)

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              1 year ago

              TOS explained our ancient deities as aliens (basically), why not an entire segment of earth people? :D I guess it depends on just how many of the Lanthanites there were on Earth. But there’s a bit of a clue that there’s at least enough that there’s a known accent, even if it’s not very common.

              Could perhaps be that at one time there was a large population, but they decided to vacate Earth after coming out, so their accent is largely unknown to the general population?

              i’d guess probably more like they just had a very small community, though, not like an entire nation.

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          1 year ago

          Romanians and Romani aren’t the same thing. But yeah, probably best not to imply that any human ethnicity are secret aliens.

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      Blending in doesn’t mean they wholly abandoned their original culture. It just means that humans never got to see it.