Commander William T. Piker?
USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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Make her name Kurtz....then we can get our Aspockalypse Now.
In House they had an intern "13" (fantastic Olivia Wilde). For the longest time we didn't have her name. Once we got her name it was a bit underwhelming, to the audience and to the cast in-universe, so much so, that they continued calling her "Thirteen" even though they knew her name. To me it just proves sometimes resolving the mystery is going to be underwhelming, so might as well not resolve it.
This is a super lame mystery. It is not needed. She is a human, she has a name, her crew mates know the name.
From the Star Wrek novels: Commander Wilson Piker (Intellectually rather let down (he is hit on the head several times in the course of the series), his specialty is striking dramatic poses. Is habitually referred to as "Number One" by Captain Jean-Lucy Ricardo.)
Pretty much this. The reckless speculation will continue on and no matter what people will be disappointed. Sounds totally worth it...
I for one won't care if we never learn her name. We never saw Chef's real face and he was mentioned far more often than Number One's ever been seen. 
I for one won't care if we never learn her name. We never saw Chef's real face and he was mentioned far more often than Number One's ever been seen.
Et Voila! One chef.
FAKE NEWS.
And you don't think that if there was a Pike show on which she was a regular character, that at some point trying to avoid mentioning her name in any situation would get silly and awkward?Pretty much this. The reckless speculation will continue on and no matter what people will be disappointed. Sounds totally worth it...
It took us 25 years to learn Sulu's first name in canon, and he was a major character. We can wait.
Whose to say she ends up as a regular character on a potential continuing series? She could well get killed in one of the next two episodes of Discovery (or a Pike pilot) as a way to shock viewers, which would make the whole discussion moot.
Did we ever get Uhura's first name on air/film prior to the Abrams films?
Sure, she could, but that is unlikely. The whole Pike series is conjecture anyway, and her being a regular on that is part of that conjecture.
Yet there was never an intention to hide his name or make it into some inane mystery. When the name was needed, he was given one. Also, avoiding never mentioning the last name would be way more tricky, and would get really awkward and gimmicky fast. (Nor was Sulu really 'a major character' on TOS.)
Okay. I really don't expect anyone to do this, but as intellectual exercise it would be really interesting to see someone to go through couple of seasons worth of TNG scripts and alter them so that Will Riker's name is never mentioned. I am really doubtful it could be done without it coming across as incredibly jarring.
That would actually be pretty interesting. I've experimented with it myself in my own fiction writing, so perhaps that why I don't find it very jarring. I'm not saying it wouldn't be difficult but I am skeptical that it is impossible or as jarring as being imagined here.
We can forget Commander Una holding any water (from the Desperate Hours novel) as that novel was just overwritten in regard to Burnham's father (Calvin in the novel, Mike in the show).
I'm partial to Una Robbins myself, combining Number One's Desperate Hours name with her Early Voyages comic name.
I'm partial to Una Robbins myself, combining Number One's Desperate Hours name with her Early Voyages comic name.
Plus the whole Michael/Spock relationship and the references to the Enterprise and Pike. David Mack got a bit shafted by the change in showrunners.
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