Was there ever an explanation for Troi's change of accent later in the show?

[hxclespaulplayer]

She sounded like going from deliberately alien-y accent to her natural British/European.

Also, her uniform and hair changed dramatically, when the other cast members barely changed - Riker and Crusher excepted.

 

[Finn]

It's not fair to say Picard's hair hasn't changed

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

IIRC, when TNG first started they had no idea which of Troi's parents was going to be the alien. And of course when Majel came aboard, nobody would dare tell HER to use a fake accent. So that left Troi's father - who, as it turned out (Dark Page), also didn't have an accent.

Perhaps Marina simply got tired of using the fake accent and tried to sound as natural as possible, even allowing for the fact that TPTB wouldn't let her use her UK accent (which still doesn't make sense, but that's another matter).

 

[stardream]

I had a half-formed thought that it was the accent of Betazid. Maybe she spent a lot of time in their equivalent of a boarding school.

Accents are funny things. I know a family who moved from Washington State to South Carolina when their children were little. Children never developed a southern accent but spoke like their parents. I've known of Americans who have lived in England for years who never lost their accent but their children speak with an English accent (although they can flawlessly 'speak American' whenever they want.)

John Barrowman who is Scottish but spent a great deal of his childhood in American switches back and forth (and Gillian Anderson had the opposite experience also goes back and forth.) Barrowman calls it being 'bi-dialectical' .

 

[Dukhat]

IIRC, when TNG first started they had no idea which of Troi's parents was going to be the alien. And of course when Majel came aboard, nobody would dare tell HER to use a fake accent. So that left Troi's father - who, as it turned out (Dark Page), also didn't have an accent.

Funny how that worked out. Neither Troi's mom or dad had accents, but she does. And both Worf's adoptive parents had Russian accents, but neither Worf nor his brother Nikolai did (although that's more explainable.)

 

[Forbin]

Let's see, my Mom's mother was from Scotland and her father was from Da Bronx. They all lived in Brooklyn for many years, then moved to New Jersey when Mom was a teen. Mom's accent is pretty much mild Jersey. Her mother had only a light Scots lilt, having come to US at the age of 9, and her father sounded like Archie Bunker. Dad's parents were native NJ, but born in the late 19th century, so they spoke quite properly, without the NYC-influenced Jersey slang and accent. Holiday dinners featured quite an array of accents. Especially if Mom's Scottish grandfather was present - he never lost an ounce of his unintelligible Scots accent.

My sister and her children, all born in NJ, moved to South Carolina when the kids were very young. as they grew, one stayed in SC, two moved to Florida. The Florida kids have barely any southern accent. The SC kid, now 44, sounds like those guys that raped Ned Beatty in Deliverance . My sister, who lived in NJ to the age of 40, has absorbed about 50% southern twang. Locals can tell she's a Yankee, Yankees think she's a southerner.

So, ya know, no reason to think three people from one family will all sound the same.

 

[Nyotarules]

Troi picked up the Enterprise accent over the years.

 

[Seven of Five]

Universal translator finally kicked in?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I guess it was more comfortable. In-universe, I don't know. Maybe she's a fan of Regency holoprograms or something.

 

[Tomalak]

Well, the first time she really loses her accent is when she gets smashed in First Contact. I just assume she got hooked on whisky after that, and is basically a functioning alcoholic from Insurrection onwards.

 

[Paradise City]

She debuts her real life accent in that bizarre Enterprise finale.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She spent her off duty time in a My Fair Lady holoprogram

 

[scotpens]

She spent her off duty time in a My Fair Lady holoprogram

Yes, if Marina Sirtis had used her natural London East End accent, Deanna Troi would have sounded like Eliza Doolittle.

 

[Tomalak]

She debuts her real life accent in that bizarre Enterprise finale.

No, it's Insurrection with the Riker love scenes, then the Voyager cameos, continuing into Nemesis. It clearly lessens as TNG goes on, but after First Contact she stops bothering with the accent entirely.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Is she even speaking English? Or is the accent an approximation made by the UT of how thick her language is, and it changes over the years due to various software updates of the translator?

 

[2takesfrakes]

What got me was, even after she lost her Betazoid accent, she still kept calling her Imzadi "Wheel."

 

[locutus101]

After a couple of years or so I tend to get the accent of the place where I live. After seven years I could have changed my accent two or three times.

 

[locutus101]

What got me was, even after she lost her Betazoid accent, she still kept calling her Imzadi "Wheel."

It was her "wheel" of fortune...

I am so Buddha at this...

 

[LJones41]

I'm wondering why she did not wear a Starfleet uniform during most of the show's run. After all, she was a Starfleet officer.

 

[mos6507]

I don't know how many others felt the same way but I have to imagine I'm not the only one who hated that accent. I thought it sounded more like a speech impediment. So my explanation is she dropped it simply because it was unpopular.