[Scooter]

[color=#000000ost_uid0]Maybe there are no good French actors.

There was a discussion about Picard's accent, the consensus being that when the French learn English they generally do it from Brits and so pick up a British accent; so Brits can be hired for French parts as well. (For some reason, though, Germans always sound like Germans. Have there been any Germans in Star Trek?)

Also we might assume that the use of English as a common language will have increased by the 24th Century. And in the Binars episode, the holdeck character speaks French by accessing the "foreign language" database--so maybe French is not a native language on Earth anymore! [/colorost_uid0]