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ost_uid0]Patriotic American would be meaningless to me, not being American. Australian is a variant of English.
I would have preferred something that sounded like he actually grew up speaking another language. The only reason he'd have an English accent was if the Romulans had made him emulate Picard's accent via speech therapy/training. They'd obviously given up on Shinzon since they sent him to work in a mine, so that's out as a possibility.
What was even the point of bothering with an English accent? A Romulan accent would have been better: Sirtis and Jurasik managed it fine with their alien characters.
In essence: it was a dumb gaffe.
No Vulcans on the writing staff, I guess.[/color
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