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@stavvers I had a weird reaction to the 2009 Trek movie doing a joke about the ship's computer not understanding Chekov's accent.

I know it was supposed to be played for laughs, but my ADHD ass immediately went "Oh no... Russians and Eastern Europeans are super-rare in the future?" :(

@mtomczak why would it imply that though, English voice recognition only understands Federation Standard accent as of now and Russians aren't rare??

@horsemankukka I would assume that in the future, there's been enough time to tune voice recognizers that it isn't thrown by an accent unless the accent is extremely unusual.

@mtomczak obviously they expected him to speak Russian so the universal translator would just translate it to Federation Standard English, clear to ship’s computer…

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