Or maybe that's just what the Xindi want you to think
First and last names of minor characters
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I always found it odd that Last Full Measure tried to reconcile the conjectural Xindi councillor names from the "Expanse" novelization with the canonical names established later by treating them as first and last names. Usually when something in an older book or comic is overwritten by canon, it just gets disregarded -- and novelizations, on the whole, have rarely been acknowledged elsewhere, except in certain cases where they fill gaps in canon (e.g. Lori Ciana or Saavik's backstory).
Yes, this project has already been worked on over at Memory Beta.
Poor Barbara Baldavin. She was married to casting director, Joseph D'Agosta, so got several gigs on TOS. After her first appearance as Angela Martine (almost Tomlinson), she was cast a few episodes later as Mary Teller, but suggested to the director that the script should have Rodriguez call her Angela, not Mary. Everyone forgot that Shatner had already filmed a scene and used the Teller surname.
Then her Angela scene in "Space Seed" was left on the cutting room floor.
And then she was cast as "Lisa" in the last episode. It actually works well that addled Janice calls her by the wrong name.
Winston Kyle was first suggested in "The Best of Trek", in a "Star Trek Mysteries - Solved!" article by fan writer Leslie Thompson.
Poor Barbara Baldavin. She was married to casting director, Joseph D'Agosta, so got several gigs on TOS. After her first appearance as Angela Martine (almost Tomlinson), she was cast a few episodes later as Mary Teller, but suggested to the director that the script should have Rodriguez call her Angela, not Mary. Everyone forgot that Shatner had already filmed a scene and used the Teller surname.
Then her Angela scene in "Space Seed" was left on the cutting room floor.
And then she was cast as "Lisa" in the last episode. It actually works well that addled Janice calls her by the wrong name.
Winston Kyle was first suggested in "The Best of Trek", in a "Star Trek Mysteries - Solved!" article by fan writer Leslie Thompson.
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I will admit, Narsanyala Jannar does sound like a cool name.
Legendary nutcase "James Dixon" compiled a list of all 400+ crewmen on Kirk's Enterprise, along with their rank and position. It doesn't have the full names of everyone, but it's a fascinating resource.
http://www.wrstone.com/wrstone/jackelope/hoff/fiawol/james_dixon
http://www.wrstone.com/wrstone/jackelope/hoff/fiawol/james_dixon
^^ Liked for "Legendary Nutcase James Dixon." 
Ah, James Dixon. I remember one time he actually started a post off with "I've been studying Treknology for the past thirty years..."
Was that more or less than twenty years ago...?
I think it's the View-Master booklet for "Mr Spock's Time Trek" ("Yesteryear") that calls Erickson by the name of Theodore, not just Ted.
When DRG3 was writing the "Crucible" trilogy, he had only the actual episode on hand, not the script, "Logs" adaptation nor View-Master booklet (which all make it clear) and he accidentally switched which character was Paul Bates onscreen and which was Erickson.
The "Log" adaptation makes Erickson an elderly civilian, IIRC, not an Enterprise crewman.
When DRG3 was writing the "Crucible" trilogy, he had only the actual episode on hand, not the script, "Logs" adaptation nor View-Master booklet (which all make it clear) and he accidentally switched which character was Paul Bates onscreen and which was Erickson.
The "Log" adaptation makes Erickson an elderly civilian, IIRC, not an Enterprise crewman.
I like the way @Extrocomp is doing it, too, and if this were given a page of its own, we could add images formatted to be right next to the names of them. Also, it would be helpful when IDing all those characters seen in a show - some people don't recognize them by name, but, they'd be like, "oh yeah, that guy with the curly hair".
At the very least, it would be helpful to specify what episodes/films the characters are from. That's far too important a detail to leave out, especially for credits like "U.S.S. Enterprise crewman" or "Klingon #3" or whatever.
I think it was some point between 2001-2003, so basically he claimed he was studying Treknology since the early 1970s.
Dixon calculated that it was thirty by the age of a piano.
I missed Dixon's time on TrekBBS, so I'm very curious what this is a reference to; was that some especially notorious data point he used in his timeline or something?
Good question. MA sources most of their in-episode and in-film images from Trekcore, who in turn get them from the productions themselves. But MA also cites the fact that the images belong to Paramount or whoever.
In his Dixonverse Trek Chronology (or whatever name he had for it. I'm forgetting and don't feel like looking it up right now), he dated TOS as starting in 2260 based upon the episode "Miri." On the duplicate Earth, Spock estimates that an aged piano is three centuries old, and later there's a reference to the town being from the 1960s (IIRC). This was more or less the linchpin of his timeline.I missed Dixon's time on TrekBBS, so I'm very curious what this is a reference to; was that some especially notorious data point he used in his timeline or something?
So, much like the Okudas (who he certainly had a derisive thing or five to say about them in his day) Dixon's taking vague references to time, in this case a mention of "three centuries" as a literal account of time, meaning that it was most certainly three hundred years exactly to the day and could not have been a generalization with a bumper to give or take a decade (or more).
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To be fair, it was Spock who gave the estimate. If he didn't mention the decimal places, we can pretty much assume that's because they were .000.
(And really, even if we assume it *is* exactly three centuries to the day, wouldn't that really only place the episode in 2260 if that piano just happened to be made on the same day society fell?)
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