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 :Funny. I can imagine someone saying that about Archer, because, TBH, he could easily be the manifestation of all anti-American stereotypes (arrogance, most importantly), or at least so in some dubbings (I felt that he came off quite arrogantly in the German dub but have never seen the original version so I can't tell if it's a voice acting thing  also him taking his stupid dog (sidenote: I'm a cat person) along for the first mission to an unknown planet and thus probably introducing a crapload (sic!) of foreign biosystems into an unknown system... aw, hell). 
 :Along with the whole Americana in the intro (the song may not be patriotic, but it's very sentimental and sentimental music + American-centric clips of the history of space voyage IS disgustingly patriotic), I guess this may have ticked some people off and made them look for similiarities where there are none. 
 :As a fan of TNG (despite the "lesson we learned today" dialogues everytime Wesley Crusher appeared in some of the earlier episodes) and  to some degree  the other "conventional" seriesses, I have to say I too felt strongly repelled by the sudden "patriotism" in the new series. The other ones worked nicely because they felt more like a "we, humans" thing, especially with the mixed ethnicities of the crew. Apart from the Neelix-esque doctor and the least Vulcanian Vulcan ever, it just felt too streamlined (I know that some of the crew members weren't "white Caucasian", but even if you remove Spock TOS would've felt more heterogenous) and the intro entirely ruined the mood. 
 :Anyway. For some reason or another Archer's German voice actor reminded me of Dubya Bush, but that's probably because of the reasons above. I'm really wondering how anyone could see any resemblance between Tucker and Dubya, though. Other than having stupid nicknames.   23:43, 14 February 2006