American

:"Yankee" redirects here, you may also be looking for the New York Yankees.
An American was a citizen or national of the Earth nation of the United States of America. (; )
The term Yankee could be used interchangeably, or to refer to a subset of this population, notably those associated with the Union side in the American Civil War. In a representation of the Q Civil War modeled on that conflict, Q represented himself as a "Union officer determined to win [Janeway's] affections despite her hatred for Yankee interlopers.". ()
Captain James T. Kirk compared the Yangs to the Yankees and Spock continued and compared the Kohm with the communists. ()
The term "Yankee traders" referred to American sailors of the 18th and 19th centuries who traveled Earth's oceans "in search of mercantile and territorial opportunity." 24th century Federation scholars would compare the Ferengi to these ancient seafarers. ()
Joe DiMaggio, an American baseball player for the New York Yankees, was also nicknamed "the Yankee clipper". ()
L.Q. Clemonds nicknamed Ralph Offenhouse as "the Yankee" when he supported Offenhouse's call for the captain of the ship while aboard the in 2364. ()
Samuel Clemens told a reporter in an interview about the people from the future, that they're there to foul them "just as my Yankee did in King Arthur's time." () At this time he was referring to his book "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" which he wrote under his alias Mark Twain. ()
While in the year 1947, Quark confused the Americans with Australians while speaking to Lieutenant General Denning. ()
When Nog watched the 19th century western , Alan Ladd's character Shane uttered the insulting words "I've heard that you're a low down Yankee liar." ()
== See also ==
* List of Americans
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