twooffour, your argument against dialects makes no sense to me. See, the thing is, EVERYBODY has a dialect of some sort. Even if you stuck everyone with the same "American" sound... guess what, that's still a dialect! The only people who refer to "American" as "no accent" are Americans! Everybody has to has to have some sort of speaking pattern. It's inevitable. And if you can accept that everyone in space can sound like an American, why can't you accept that they can sound like any other Earthly nationality? Why is it that space farers sounding like Americans is totally realistic, but space farers sounding Asian completely blows the suspension of disbelief? Either you can accept all of it, or you can't accept any of it, but it doesn't make any sense to criticize one and not the other because it's doing exactly the same thing either way: giving an Earth dialect to non-Earth people.