>>219802957
Is Patrick Stewart French?
I think the point is that modern Britain and France hate eachother so he's a euromutt that represents unity between the two nations.

>>219804154
Patrick Stewart is British. Jean luc Picard is French. And I don't think so they make it clear he's 100% French and proud of it

>>219804407
Is this like making Ryan Gosling play a black dude?

>>219802957
Because it's the grim darkness of the globo-homo future, where a British gentleman who drinks tea and Britishes Britishly all the time is still French because he says he's French and you're a stupid uncivilized reactionary if you suggest there's anything essential in the French national identity that would contradict this position.

>>219802957
>an englishman pretending to be a frenchman pretending to be an englishman

>>219802957
>>219804556
>thinking brits and frogs are different
The franks, normans and saxons are all germanic tribes. It's just that some drink wine and eat cheese because their land is rich and the others drink tea because theirs is a shithole.

>>219804645
the normans and saxons invaded england because the land is rich.
but both will end up black/islamic

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>>219804407
It would have been more interesting if he was cast as a British captain and his family owned a brewery instead of a vineyard. Instead of Chateaux Picard its Knot Another Dumb Slag Ale. Picard would be the one son who wanted to get away from the chav shit in his neighborhood.

>>219804407
just make him half french/half english
would have solved this problem

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>>219802957
The canon reason is that Earth's WWIII had Britain take over/invade France and that's how the accent was adopted by the population.

>>219805074
Really? I must have missed that part

>>219802957
Because that's what Roddenberry wanted. But then they found Patrick Stewart, and wanted to cast him. Mr Stewart was so charming they let him get away with his britishness despite playing a a beret wearing frog. Season 1 is full of more frenchy stuff such as We'll Always Have Paris.

>>219805074
The P*card show says that his family fled from France to England in World War II and the accent stuck.

>>219804677
Rich compared to the frozen Scandinavian hellhole.

>>219804900
That's a great idea.
And instead of Tea Earl Grey Hot he had a cup of the ole' bucky

>>219805460
even the romans invaded because of the land wealth and why they never bothered to invade Scotland with it's barren highlands

>>219804900
>the chav shit in his neighborhood
it's set in the future where earth is a paradise you nob

>>219804407
He drinks Earl Grey though.

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Who gets to own property on Earth in the 24th century?

There's a finite amount of land and trillions of Federation citizens. How does that work out?
>post scarcity society
>money is only used on the frontier
So what leverage does one use to secure real estate if not financial wealth?

What happens if one of those blue skinned guys with the weird vaporators decide she wants to open a space schwarma stand in New Orleans? The Federation President is one of those guys and he lives on Earth. Does Grandpa Sisko have to move out? Or is hereditary ownership indefinite?

>>219802957
I don't know what the newer Picard show did to the canon but in TNG he was confirmed to be Quebecois, not French

>French descent
>British mannerisms
why is this so hard to believe of an ambitious cosmopolitan space seaman 400 years in the future

>>219806121
Château Picard was located in La Barre, France (though was shot in California, like everything in Trek)

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>>219805723

And his even more English brother lives on a winery in France with his English wife and son.

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>>219806069
>Who gets to own property on Earth in the 24th century?

That's not even the stupidest thing about that restaurant. He has waiters. Waiters that are working for no pay in a society without money.

Federation economics are retarded.

>>219802957
it was really silly to cast him and not change his name to something more anglo, or if they just had to stick with the frenchie name then they should have cast somebody else

>>219806121
No he's French

>>219802957
It's even funnier when they introduce his brother who lives on a vineyard in France and he talks like a Yorkshire farmer.

>>219802957

he is French, but like every intelligent ESL was just raised in the British education system

They're verry interconnected countries at least back in the middle ages.

>>219804471
actually, Ryan Gosling is part black

>>219802957
Diversity points

>>219806069
Earth population in TNG is like billion, basically everyone except people working for the central bureaucracy has fucked off to colonies.

RYAN GOSLING IS BLACK

>>219806347
Johnny Pickering.

>>219806121
I'm morbidly curious what you saw that led you to this conclusion.

>>219802957
>why is the guy called Jean Luc Picard French

>>219802957
Have you considered that by the 24th century what we might consider classic britishness would by then be the modern French?

Anglo-French is the best combo. It mogs every other combo ever.

>>219805718
chavs will always be chavs

>>219805353
So he's not french by any means

>>219806255
Also New Orleans doesn't look like that. It's a New York or Chicago backlot set with some very lazy set dressing. One could argue that at some point in the future New Orleans for some reason will adopt late 19th/early 20th century building codes from New York but that defies logic.

>>219802957
Back in the day Euros would learn English in an English accent. Nowadays American is kind of the dedault, standard English because of movies and TV and internet and shit, but it wasn't always like that. My mother has a very strong british accent when she speaks English, and she has never left Amsterdam

>>219812211
>Back in the day Euros would learn English in an English accent.
No they wouldn't, only posers and english teachers. Dutchies are a special case because your throat cancer sounds are the closest to english there is on the continent.

>>219802957
Only a Frenchman could be that smug and self-righteous as to try and resolve crazy situations diplomatically. Someone has to be "the bigger man", and nobody is bigger than a Frenchman's ego.

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They should've at least tried to make him look like a Frenchman of the future.

Jean-Luc Picard is just a dope name, it's not that deep

>>219808693
So England finally conquered France? Based. Probably happened during the Eugenics Wars

>>219808693
Americans of course are more used to British regional accents. Having people talking English but in a fruity French accent would just sound campy and off.