That’s pretty neat. And much more ethical than the experiment where the guy only spoke to his child in Klingon for three years. Although that failed anyway.
https://www.cracked.com/article_33776_a-terrible-dad-taught-his-son-only-klingon.html
Or have you heard of that absolute fucking freak who paraded her kid around to different panels? She named him after all the Starfleet captains and ‘raised him under Gene Roddenberrys bubble’.
I’ve watched a bunch of Star Trek panels over the years and she has popped up in three of 'em. One of them you can even hear the entire audience groan because presumably she’s been shoving him around the convention too. Marina Sirtis even responded with “Why would you do that to your child?” and the audience cheered her.
Like their name was Kirk Jean-Luc Benjamin Kathryn Jonathan (etc.)? Or she just kept lying about his name?
Disturbing either way.
So I found the panel in question. Heres the link to the specific time stamp but it starts at 13:29. I was wrong on the name. IT wasn’t named after all the captains. It was “Patrick James Tiberius Kirk”. But you can hear the audience groaning almost immediately. The whole interaction is awkward as fuck. Patrick Stewart is trying not to laugh at Marina making fun of her too.
Fans can be nuts for sure. Did you ever see the Trekkies documentary? There’s the lady who can see Brent Spiner’s house from her balcony and has a “Brent break” when she’s feeling bad where she goes out and watches and the lady who was dismissed from the jury in the Clinton Whitewater case because she only ever wears a TNG uniform and insists on being called ‘commander.’
That second example sounds like a great way to get out of jury duty tho…
Unfortunately, she was like that all the time. She wore the uniform at her screen printing job and everyone there called her Commander.
I dunno, that sounds kinda rad, she’s got something figured out…
I gotta take my uniform to get tailored or something 'Cause I’m hanging mad knuck every Halloween
Just casually mention you know about jury nullification. You’ll never see a judge.
I have it downloaded and I’ve been meaning to but I didn’t realize it was that insane. I also thought it was like a mockumentary thing. You’re telling me that’s fucking real?!
It is real. I actually befriended Roger Nygard who made it. He put me in another one of his documentaries that has nothing to do with Star Trek and I still don’t know why.
What the fuck. To both of those things but very much especially the first.
I am afraid.
Oh I fucking love Marina’s sass!!
Also I keep forgetting she’s British. Her accent really threw me at first! 😂
Many many years ago my mom was in the hospital and the woman who shared the room with her was Vietnamese I think it was? I really can’t remember. They didn’t have anybody that spoke her language and it was a big problem. Then one day while I was there her husband was visiting when one of the doctors showed up.
Your her husband? Great! We really need someone to translate for us.
I don’t speak her language.
Recipe for happy marriage lmao
Two of my co workers at Disney were a long married couple, she’s German and he isn’t. They told me how they met, he was in the military and stationed in Germany, and he hooked up with her. The next morning her father decided his daughter was going to marry this American guy. She didn’t speak English and he didn’t speak German, so they had no way to communicate for the first few months of their marriage. But they were still together decades later, lol.
Damn…
That’s fucking beautiful.
Not to take away from this, but from my experience as a non-advanced* Spanish speaker, there is some overlap in the Romantic Languages. If you speak slowly enough, you might figure out what you each are saying.
*Spanish was my second language, spoke it only to family growing up. I probably have a low grade school understanding of it. Enough to be dangerous and get around when I went to Madrid, not enough to not sound like an idiot.
Edit: When I wrote this comment, I was thinking of Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. While French is a romantic language, it can be its own beast.
She spoke French, as a student abroad, to be accurate, and he spoke only English.
