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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

Is there some pressing need for her to get a name, that no matter how inventive it is, will loudly be shouted down by some portion of the fanbase? I have no problem with letting it go until it is necessary (possible Pike spinoff).
Yes, they can avoid it for a brief appearance here, but if the Pike spin-off happens, as many hope and expect, then it needs to be resolved. And in such a situation I hope they just give her some perfectly normal name and forgo any weird nonsense explanations that there has been floating in the novels. Pike may almost always calls her 'Number One', subordinates might usually just call her 'Commander', but there doesn't need to be any inane mystery related to the name. She has a name and in situations where it is needed, it is used.
 
They've been pulling stuff from Trek Novels left and right all season, my guess is that They will probably go with something akin to or just Una.
(or just continue to call her Number One)
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Is there some pressing need for her to get a name, that no matter how inventive it is, will loudly be shouted down by some portion of the fanbase? I have no problem with letting it go until it is necessary (possible Pike spinoff).

I don't see a need. Pike can call her Number One and everbody else "Lieutenant", and that's ok by me. Keep her mysterious.
 
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I'd love it if her first name was literally Lieutenant; that would make her the second female character in the series with a male first name (I mean, I remember Columbo joking at one point that his first name was Lieutenant, so it must be a male name, right?)
 
Yes, they can avoid it for a brief appearance here, but if the Pike spin-off happens, as many hope and expect, then it needs to be resolved. And in such a situation I hope they just give her some perfectly normal name and forgo any weird nonsense explanations that there has been floating in the novels. Pike may almost always calls her 'Number One', subordinates might usually just call her 'Commander', but there doesn't need to be any inane mystery related to the name. She has a name and in situations where it is needed, it is used.

Doesn't matter to me. I'd be more than happy to just go with one of the names given her in the various novels: Morgan Primus (New Frontier) or Una (Captain to Captain).
 
I'm pretty sure Pike is deliberately avoiding mentioning her name because it's so awkward when people realize it's... Pike.

I mean, imagine having your sister serve as your XO!

(Or is it his ex-wife?)

"You are different, of course."

Timo Saloniemi
 
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