I interviewed Michelle Yeoh a few years ago about #StarTrekDiscovery and I mentioned offhand that I'd written an article about what seeing her use her accent on the bridge of a starship meant to me.
She stopped and said "Wait, that was YOU?"
And then proceeded to talk about how much that article had meant to HER and how it contributed to the success of the show.
I can't think about it without crying.
(The original article: https://authory.com/SwapnaKrishna/On-Star-Trek-Discovery-and-Michelle-Yeohs-accent-aa6d2eb01b3a24970abf406c39146df33)
@skrishna I honestly loved that.
I enjoyed most of Star Trek 2009, but the one thing they played as a gag that stuck out to me like a sore thumb was the computer not understanding Checkov's accent. Because my over-analyze-everything brain latched onto that and went "Oh... I guess that means either Russian accent is super-rare in the future or we never cracked the nut of making voice recognition accent-agnostic. That's... Kind of sad."
And I know they didn't intend it that way, but it's Star Trek. Shit means things.
