why in sci fi films?????

im not a sci fi geek, but i thought about it when watching star wars. Earth is small planet with loads of different languages, but in the films say the planet "artilla" every one speaks "artillian" you know just one languge for a whole god damn planet, if our small world has got lot of different ones,with different accents, how come a different planet has one language  and there accents are all the same, if there was a planet some parts in the past would not be able to be got to by certain people, e.g huge ocean in between countries, so the likelyhood of them every begining to evolve and talk the same as people hundreds of miles apart and never met or are gonna meet is very unlikely

Ever noticed that most of the aliens in star teck have American Accents ?

Strange how a BORG Queen can sound as if see comes from the US.

I also find it interesting that in Star Trek every alien speaks English, and almost every alien is just a variation on human skin colour, texture, and throw in a forehead or nose variation.

We speak Earthian by the way.

[nO-One]

Well in Star Trek they have the universal translator.But the main reason for this is that most people would find it difficult to watch a show where no one spoke the same language.
And Star Trek does have Klingon which is a complete languge (I have the Klingon dictonary).Yes I\'m a HARDCORE Trekkie and I\'m damn proud of ot

Ever notice that in the Star Wars movies, most of the Imperial commanders appear to be English?  It\'s funny that from an American perspective Britain = Evil.

Oh yeah Kopking:  Who\'s to say that the people living on all those with one-language planets actually evolved there?  Maybe those are colonized planets, and all the colonists came from the same population on the homeworld.  If humans colonized any planets, I\'d say it\'s a fair guess that the entire planet would end up speaking some variation of English.

good point coredweller, but to go to a planet that is liveable will have no life on it what so ever, also if they colonized, you would expect other species to help colonize it. please note this thread was meant to be taken lightly so please dont take offence or start getting in heated debate about it

Originally posted by nO-One
Well in Star Trek they have the universal translator.But the main reason for this is that most people would find it difficult to watch a show where no one spoke the same language.
And Star Trek does have Klingon which is a complete languge (I have the Klingon dictonary).Yes I\'m a HARDCORE Trekkie and I\'m damn proud of ot

*cough* NERD *cough*

[nO-One]

Soon us nerds will rule the world,and we shall imprison all those sports jocks and hip people who made fun of us.Now if you will excuse me I need to try on my new Vulcan ears
(The sad thing is,while I don\'t have the ears I do have a Starfleet uniform)

Originally posted by nO-One
Soon us nerds will rule the world,and we shall imprison all those sports jocks and hip people who made fun of us.Now if you will excuse me I need to try on my new Vulcan ears
(The sad thing is,while I don\'t have the ears I do have a Starfleet uniform)

wel you could get some scissors and make some ears - it might hurt a little though

sad thing is people actually have done that - dang that has to hurt

[nO-One]

Yes there are people in the world that are even stranger than I.

Some other Sci fi films and cartoons are even funnier.Many times when an alien invades earth it happens to know english.And even tranformers used english.They could communicate with humans from day one using normal English.
It seems English isnt just an international language.Its universal

And it\'s very funny, that in Hollywood-alien-blast-films the aliens always attack America.

Independence day is one example - at the Independence Day of AMERICA ( how are they supposed to know anyway? ) they attack the biggest cities of AMERICA - and it\'s AMERICAN who saves the world in the end.

ALWAYS AMERICA!!!AMERICA AMERICA!!!!WHY DONT THEY EVER INCLUDE CYPRUS?

Because we have the second hottest women on earth, right behind Spain... and no alien would attack Spain, as hot women are all they have:D

Originally posted by Darth Joyda
And it\'s very funny, that in Hollywood-alien-blast-films the aliens always attack America.

Independence day is one example - at the Independence Day of AMERICA ( how are they supposed to know anyway? ) they attack the biggest cities of AMERICA - and it\'s AMERICAN who saves the world in the end.

They attacked Big cities all over the world. It just happened to be on July 4(US Independance Day) that we decided to strike back. Do you not remember the illmatic blast that they showed in France?