[Zeke]

[quoteost_uid0="Things Are Good"][color=#000000ost_uid0]Plus, it's also possible he was using the UT, in which case maybe that's just the way the wacky machine translated it.[/colorost_uid0][/quoteost_uid0]
[color=#000000ost_uid0]What do the Uncharted Territories have to do with anything? Though I agree that things are wacky there...

I have to disagree with Nan on the accent issue -- I don't see any problem with Shinzon's "French" accent. Remember, he didn't spend his [iost_uid0]entire[/iost_uid0] life in the Reman mines (Remines?). Since he was intended as a perfect duplicate of Picard, the young Shinzon would have been taught to speak with Picard's intonation, just as he would have had to learn Picard's posture, behaviour patterns, and such. Since the accent you have when you first learn to speak sticks with you, by the time the project was abandoned, Shinzon's accent would have been pretty much like Picard's.

Another possible explanation is that Shinzon was just emphasizing his similarity to Picard. It's not too difficult to fake a British accent, and the small psychological effect on Picard and his friends could be valuable.[/colorost_uid0]