Amusingly, until STIII, it was Leonard Edward McCoy in Diane Duane's old novels.
Spock's official name: S’chn T’Gai
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I doubt it considering she still uses the name Burnham.
The link in this thread also reveals M'Benga's first name in SNW is Jabilo, which IIRC comes from the Vanguard novels.
And ignores some early novels and tie ins which gave him the name Geoffrey.
I go with Horatio as well. TOS can always use more Hornblower references. Where did Horatio originate anyway?
Can mods PLEAE fix the spelling in the thread title? It's S'chn T'gai
Bloody autocorrect.
S'chn G'gain is the family of beefcake bodybuilder Vulcans
Wow...they actually reached from a TOS novel to make ANOTHER name canon! I don't mind this at all...it may not be TV canon, but if you read those old novels, its canon there! I like it! They really are reaching into the novels for these lost years.
LOL so wait...his name is "Sean" Spock? If pronounced here?!
It's surreal to read old Best of Trek books and fanzines where fans have given the characters names like Walter Sulu and Penda Uhura...
The Vulcan language already sounds super-duper alien though. That's why the Vulcan word for "logic" at the beginning of TMP was pronounced ogica. No relationship to Pig Latin whatsoever!
And that's because Diane Duane was relying on William Rotsler's licensed tie-in book, STAR TREK II BIOGRAPHIES.
Actually, it sounds that way because the scene was shot in English then dubbed in something that matched the lip movements. They upped the alien-ness in ST:II.The Vulcan language already sounds super-duper alien though. That's why the Vulcan word for "logic" at the beginning of TMP was pronounced ogica. No relationship to Pig Latin whatsoever!
It was pronounced that way because the actors were speaking English in the scenes when they were filmed, and later they decided that the characters should be speaking 'native Vulcan' so they rearanged the order of some of the dialogue in the added subtitles; but for the shots where you could clearly lip read the original English spoken dialogue: the made up 'Vulcan word' they dubbed in had to phoneticly sound similar to the English words to match the mouth movement.The Vulcan language already sounds super-duper alien though. That's why the Vulcan word for "logic" at the beginning of TMP was pronounced ogica. No relationship to Pig Latin whatsoever!
And even though Ms Duane readily pounced on "Nyota" for her novels after Rotsler's "ST II Biographies" came out, she retained "Edward" for McCoy. (Also in her text for "The Kobayashi Alternative" computer game.)
Mmmmm. My memory was that "Horatio" was in "Biographies". (EDIT: Ah yes, it was "Horatio" in the "Officers' Manual!", not "Biographies".)
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IIRC, that one was filmed in English, too. Maybe that's why Vulcans have an inexplicable fondness for humans; our language is eerily similar.
It's even better than that, they didn't rephrase the subtitles until the Director's Edition in 2001. If you watch the theatrical cut (or the Special Longer Version on a VCR), the subtitles are word-for-word what the actors were originally saying before they redubbed themselves.
It wasn't. It was, however, in the Geoffrey Mandel fan-published OFFICER'S MANUAL.
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