Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Pike series and novel continuity
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I'm not against Spock having the rest of his name revealed but I just assumed that WAS his full name.
Like if he wanted to introduce himself, he'd say, "I am Spock, Son of Sarek and Amanda Grayson."
OR
"I am Spock, Science Officer."
OR
"I am Spock of Vulcan (or on Vulcan, I am Spock of Shi'Kahr)."
Like people have done on Earth for thousands of years.
Like if he wanted to introduce himself, he'd say, "I am Spock, Son of Sarek and Amanda Grayson."
OR
"I am Spock, Science Officer."
OR
"I am Spock of Vulcan (or on Vulcan, I am Spock of Shi'Kahr)."
Like people have done on Earth for thousands of years.
It's canonical that it isn't.
"This Side of Paradise":
LEILA: You never told me if you had another name, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: You couldn't pronounce it.
"Journey to Babel":
KIRK: Mrs. Sarek, I just don't understand.
AMANDA: Amanda. I'm afraid you couldn't pronounce the Vulcan name.
KIRK: Can you?
AMANDA: After a fashion, and after many years of practice.
Ah, thanks for the correction.
We already had this in "Brother" when Pike's service record came up on screen. It established he was Captain April's first officer and then commanded 2 5-year missions on the Enterprise. Must be just the Kelvin universe the 5-year mission program was new with Kirk.
^ Yup, that's indeed what I was referring to with the "another" 5-year mission-thing, up there -- like you mention, this is at least Pike's third 5YM (which I think is very consistent with the novels, too, which posited two 5YMs prior to the time-period SNW inhabits). And yup, the implication in the Kelvin Timeline was that 5YMs were a brand-new concept for Starfleet's Connies, going by the onscreen dialogue in STID.
Which is consistent with the state of affairs in ST'09, where Starfleet had buckled down and become more defensive in the wake of the Kelvin attack in 2233, and Pike (Kelvin version) felt that Starfleet needed to regain that spirit of adventure and exploration. When we talk about "5-year missions," it specifically refers to what the "orders to Captain April" page in the original series pitch described as "Galaxy exploration and class M investigation: 5 years." (Hey, "class M" goes back to the original 1964 pitch -- I didn't realize that until now.) So without a focus on exploration, you don't get 5-year open-ended exploratory missions.
Was this in doubt? They kept showing that surname in promotional material.Very cool that we're finally getting Number One's canonical last name onscreen (per The Ready Room-aftershow):
I guess I must've missed those -- seeing the name onscreen the other night was my first time. And it's nice to see another offscreen source getting mined for a canon-project, too.
Just read IGN’s review of the pilot, and there’s a fairly-major cameo by a character who figures pretty hugely in classic Star Trek-lore (spoilerized below):
Admiral Robert April (portrayed by Adrian Holmes) gives Pike his first mission when he finally returns to command of the Enterprise (to rescue Number One from a mission gone awry).
Interesting that he’s apparently Admiral April here, rather than Commodore April — this wouldn’t be a case of a canon-story being inconsistent with a non-canon story, but seemingly a canon-vs.-canon conflict (TAS: “Yesteryear”), unless maybe the IGN reviewer simply got sloppy with his rank-references, here:
https://www.ign.com/articles/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-premiere-review
Interesting that he’s apparently Admiral April here, rather than Commodore April — this wouldn’t be a case of a canon-story being inconsistent with a non-canon story, but seemingly a canon-vs.-canon conflict (TAS: “Yesteryear”), unless maybe the IGN reviewer simply got sloppy with his rank-references, here:
https://www.ign.com/articles/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-premiere-review
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Another character going to be showing up in SNW is Sam Kirk, Jim's brother. He's a Starfleet officer serving on the Enterprise in the science department.
I'm sure Lower Decks will be able to explain the two Aprils of TAS and SNW. 
So everyone brought their families too? I hope the entire crew get Michael Burnham-style secret siblings.
I'm sure Lower Decks will be able to explain the two Aprils of TAS and SNW.
Easy. The cartoon just drew him wrong. TAS's Kor didn't look like John Colicos either.
IIRC, that character was also an admiral in Early Voyages. Maybe something happens in the future to cause him to be demoted?
As long as he's rocking a cardigan, all is good!
This one I'm not terribly fond of. Into Darkness did the same thing with Carol Marcus, where a character we met as a civilian was given a Starfleet backstory. It's OK for not everyone to have been in Starfleet. (Not that this is a problem, of course, it's just story choice I wouldn't personally have made.)
Also,
Spock was apparently his boss at one time, and this relationship never came up once during "Operation: Annihilate!"
Well Commodore isn't actually a rank, it's just a title so he might be an Admiral who was referred to as a Commodore.
Reasonably sure it's a "real" rank in Starfleet, though. (Just like it's a real rank in, for example, the Royal Canadian Navy...)
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