"fred" <f5r4e3d@excite.com> wrote in message
news:1125011888.065722.210060@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Never mind the accent, she should be delighted that so many previously
> uncontacted people in the galaxy speak English.

It's the Universal Translater machine of course.  Supposedly English must
have become the main human language by then.  I always thought this money
being pured into Gaelic was going down the tube :-)


>
> (hey, don't quite a lot of the aliens have English accents anyway?
> which can be handy for English actors on those rare occasions when they
> don't have a role for a baddie that particular week)

As you say it's only the bad aliens.  Though quite often it's Welsh accents
which Americans only think are English :-)

Allan