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Irish Connections?

  • 25-04-2008 5:23pm
    #1
    cyrusdvirus
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    I remember a number of Irish/Ireland references in Star Trek, from TNG onwards.

    Chief O Brien is the obvious one, but there was also the episode of TNG where the Bringloidi were involved (and a more paddywhackery oirish lot you could never be hoping to see)

    Then there was the fairhaven series of episodes from Voyager, which were...well.. the quaint oirish village with the little people and the fairy folk and the whole lot

    There was also an episode of Enterprise where Archer was answering a letter from some school in Bantry.

    Just wondering...who was it who inspired these irish references?


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  • #2
    Sherifu
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    Everything the wiki has is here. No mention of who inspired them though.


  • #3
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,636 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    There was also the holodeck scenes on DS9 where O'Brien and Bashir refight the Battle of Clontarf... and the Next Gen preachy terrorism episode where there's talk of a united Ireland in 2025...

    Lots of American shows, especially ones that started in the 80s, threw in an Oirish episode... Murder She Wrote, Remington Steele, The Twilight Zone... I don't think you need to look too deeply for reasons beyond the popularity of a particular view of Ireland in America and Irish-America.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #4
    Cactus Col
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    Wasn't one of the last Murder She Wrotes made in Ireland?

    That Fairhaven crap really put me off voyager more than anything. It was brutal.


  • #5
    Sherifu
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    Cactus Col wrote: »
    Wasn't one of the last Murder She Wrotes made in Ireland?

    That Fairhaven crap really put me off voyager more than anything. It was brutal.
    Yep, in Cork. Even got a movie; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330664/


  • #6
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Irony is, that was Ireland in the 1950's. People seem to forget just what a fecky little island this is/was/forever shall be.


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  • #7
    Irishtrekkie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 330 ✭✭Irishtrekkie


    trust me guys it could have been much worse this line sums it up

    "that for DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses", Rumpelstiltskin was originally written as a leprechaun, but was changed when Colm Meaney objected, claiming that this was an offensive stereotype against Irish people? "

    thank god for Colm Meaney enough said


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