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Old 12-14-2005, 05:40 PM
diebitter diebitter is offline
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Default Re: Is Star Trek Racist?

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I wouldn't say the French suck, it's just the sensibility and attitude of Picard is hardcore English officer (a type pretty firmly established since the Napoleonic wars onwards), that's all.

Jeez, never thought I'd be defending the French here [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Do they still turn your military heroes into Dukes?

Like Marlborough and Wellington.

Churchill should have been made a Duke, IMO.

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It varies. Nelson was made a Lord, for example.

We had too many British (the Scots and the Welsh made a damn good show of it too) heroes for all that nonsense. I'm not kidding. Here's a past thread about one

Doesn't matter what honours you gave Churchill, he couldn't have been a greater man or been held in higher esteem than he is, IMO.
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