Question about the Star Trek: TNG episode "Rascals"

[her209]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascals_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Ok, so in the episode, Capt. Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro, and Keiko O'Brien get transformed into their younger selves due to an anomaly with the transporter, but how come their clothes shrank too? Also, I don't think Picard has a British accent but his younger self has one, but isn't Picard a Frenchman?

 

[lsv]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascals_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29

Ok, so in the episode, Capt. Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro, and Keiko O'Brien get transformed into their younger selves due to an anomaly with the transporter, but how come their clothes shrank too? Also, I don't think Picard has a British accent but his younger self has one, but isn't Picard a Frenchman?

The accent or anything else will stay as they're essentially the same people, just as kids.

The clothes did shrink, just not a lot. It's probably a production fuck up and they should have used larger uniforms. Later on they had clothing made I assume...

God I'm on season 6 now, DS9 starts soon

 

[0roo0roo]

 

[SKORPI0]

The transporter automatically adjusted their clothes sizes when they rematerialized, it was part of the anomaly. :hmm:

 

[MotionMan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascals_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Ok, so in the episode, Capt. Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro, and Keiko O'Brien get transformed into their younger selves due to an anomaly with the transporter, but how come their clothes shrank too?

There clothes look baggy and the arms too long. I think the implication is that the clothes did not shrink.

Also, I don't think Picard has a British accent but his younger self has one, but isn't Picard a Frenchman?

Picard has some sort of accent. He is suppose to be French, but I found his accent to sound more British anyway, not unlike his character in Excalibur.

MotionMan

 

[child of wonder]

The episode occurred after Gene Roddenberry had died so he wasn't around to say "no fucking way" when Berman and Braga suggested an episode where the cast is turned into children.

 

[Newbian]

The real question is why they didn't explore this function to use as a way of eternal life.

 

[ussfletcher]

The episode occurred after Gene Roddenberry had died so he wasn't around to say "no fucking way" when Berman and Braga suggested an episode where the cast is turned into children.

To be fair, all of the best episodes were filmed after his death.

 

[Locut0s]

One of the lesser TNG episodes.

 

[mikeymikec]

The episode occurred after Gene Roddenberry had died so he wasn't around to say "no fucking way" when Berman and Braga suggested an episode where the cast is turned into children.

This would be the same Gene Roddenberry who wanted to Troi to have two sets of breasts? Oh yes, I really would regard him as the patron saint of decent Trek making

 

[mikeymikec]

Picard has some sort of accent. He is suppose to be French, but I found his accent to sound more British anyway, not unlike his character in Excalibur.

The book '3010' strongly implies how by that time people would have moved around enough that traditional indicators of country of origin wouldn't really apply any more. One of the characters is named 'Indra Wallace' for example. I think this logic can be applied to Trek as well.

 

[mikeymikec]

One of the lesser TNG episodes.

Yup.

 

[Kadarin]

The episode occurred after Gene Roddenberry had died so he wasn't around to say "no fucking way" when Berman and Braga suggested an episode where the cast is turned into children.

The same Gene Roddenberry that brought us this shit?:

 

[Newbian]

Don't diss the man skirt.

 

[0roo0roo]

There clothes look baggy and the arms too long. I think the implication is that the clothes did not shrink.



Picard has some sort of accent. He is suppose to be French, but I found his accent to sound more British anyway, not unlike his character in Excalibur.

MotionMan

picard has a standard british accent.

 

[K1052]

I think my largest problem with that episode was that they basically discovered how to rig the transporter into a makeshift fountain of youth and they're all just whining about how to get old again.

 

[child of wonder]

This would be the same Gene Roddenberry who wanted to Troi to have two sets of breasts? Oh yes, I really would regard him as the patron saint of decent Trek making

What's wrong with two sets of tits? Double your pleasure, double your fun!

 

[shortylickens]

Actually when they stepped off the transporter I seem to recall their clothes were regular grown up size.
And getting kids uniforms would be quick n' easy thanks to replicators.

 

[guyver01]

Ok, so in the episode, Capt. Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro, and Keiko O'Brien get transformed into their younger selves due to an anomaly with the transporter, but how come their clothes shrank too?

because the network censors wouldn't allow naked children on prime time television

Also, I don't think Picard has a British accent but his younger self has one, but isn't Picard a Frenchman?

Because David Tristan Birkin (who played picard at age 12) is a British actor .. and good luck getting a kid to pull off a french accent

 

[SKORPI0]

and good luck getting a kid to pull off a french accent

How about a french kid actor who speaks English? :\

 

[Fritzo]

There clothes look baggy and the arms too long. I think the implication is that the clothes did not shrink.



Picard has some sort of accent. He is suppose to be French, but I found his accent to sound more British anyway, not unlike his character in Excalibur.

MotionMan

It was explained elsewhere that French is a dead language by their time, and English is the main language of Earth.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

It was explained elsewhere that French is a dead language by their time, and English is the main language of Earth.

That's true IIRC, but don't Picard's family members clearly have French accents? Picard clearly has a British accent, obviously. To the OP -- listen to how he says certain words like "issue," for example, or other words British people generally pronounce differently than Americans.

 

[AstroManLuca]

The transporter automatically adjusted their clothes sizes when they rematerialized, it was part of the anomaly. :hmm:

Ever noticed that transporters sometimes (but not always) change a person's posture mid-transport? Like if they're sitting down in a shuttle they'll be standing on the transporter pad when they get beamed aboard the ship.

 

[shortylickens]

That's true IIRC, but don't Picard's family members clearly have French accents? Picard clearly has a British accent, obviously. To the OP -- listen to how he says certain words like "issue," for example, or other words British people generally pronounce differently than Americans.

I always thought the way he pronounced issue was so as not to make a harsh sound which would be sharp and annoying on most televisions of the 80's.
Cuz other people on the show did the same thing frequently.

 

[Triumph]

Don't diss the man skirt.

That is an incredibly sexist and outdated comment.

Besides, you look good in a dress.