#550989
hi everybody!
As you may, or may not, know I'm from Italy.
Italy and Star Trek are actually strange bedfellows:
we love Star Trek, and sometimes it loves us ( such personnel as Angelo Tassoni OR Leonardo Da Vinci clearly shows that) ... but it doesn't always...
That's the case of Voyager episode "Scorpion", when a frustrated Da Vinci shouts (in Italian) at his wooden blacksmith, but he says something you cannot show in a TV series in here, so he has been "censored" (changed to something less... strong) or when the scenes of the ONLY Italian actress ever acted in Star Trek (Lorella Cuccarini in Insurrection) happen to be practically completely deleted...
so where am I going to?
I've noticed 2 things in TCCG, that could be "done for Italy":
1st there is a Cardassian named Merdan, which in Italian quite literally means Sh*t(n) I think he's just a background guy, who's given a "random" name from a Non canon Novel ... it is rather unpleasant...could that be changed?...
2nd, and most important, yesterday I spotted this guy in DS9 episode 2x14 "Whispers" https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/DeCurtis
he has the name of one of most beloved (and revered) Italian comedian (Antonio De Curtis) AND yesterday actually happened to be his death anniversary (R.I.P. 1967).
IF the Committee will have to create a new ENGINEER card, I think De Curtis might be a good candidate.
that's it... just suggestions (and a bit of patriotism... )
Hope I haven't been too boring ...thanks for reading!!!
Ivo Founder
As you may, or may not, know I'm from Italy.
Italy and Star Trek are actually strange bedfellows:
we love Star Trek, and sometimes it loves us ( such personnel as Angelo Tassoni OR Leonardo Da Vinci clearly shows that) ... but it doesn't always...
That's the case of Voyager episode "Scorpion", when a frustrated Da Vinci shouts (in Italian) at his wooden blacksmith, but he says something you cannot show in a TV series in here, so he has been "censored" (changed to something less... strong) or when the scenes of the ONLY Italian actress ever acted in Star Trek (Lorella Cuccarini in Insurrection) happen to be practically completely deleted...
so where am I going to?
I've noticed 2 things in TCCG, that could be "done for Italy":
1st there is a Cardassian named Merdan, which in Italian quite literally means Sh*t(n) I think he's just a background guy, who's given a "random" name from a Non canon Novel ... it is rather unpleasant...could that be changed?...
2nd, and most important, yesterday I spotted this guy in DS9 episode 2x14 "Whispers" https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/DeCurtis
he has the name of one of most beloved (and revered) Italian comedian (Antonio De Curtis) AND yesterday actually happened to be his death anniversary (R.I.P. 1967).
IF the Committee will have to create a new ENGINEER card, I think De Curtis might be a good candidate.
that's it... just suggestions (and a bit of patriotism... )
Hope I haven't been too boring ...thanks for reading!!!
Ivo Founder