Surely a coincidence that this matches the political divide in the US.
Spoilers Star Trek: Picard 3x02 - "Disengage"
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Terry said it’s a non-Federation Planet.
Which makes sense, no federation planet would have a seedy underworld line we saw in these last two episodes.
A trading partner?
Or Maltus could be on the road to membership, which takes a minimum of 5 years.
A woman cannot legally list a father on the birth certificate if the father is not there to sign an acknowledgement of paternity or a court has not issued an order establishing that a certain man is the legal father. I doubt that would have changed in the 24th century or you could have a bunch of women naming celebrities or royalty as the fathers of their children. I would assume no father is named on Jack Crusher’s official record of birth. Certainly, his father would not be listed as a man who had been dead for three decades or so when he was born. The only way that would have happened is if there had been DNA testing and an acknowledgement by Beverly that she had used the sperm of her dead husband, with his permission on the record, or embryos they had created before his death, to have a child.
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That was reasonably common in the UK among the upper classes and aristocracy until quite recently too. For example, Princess Michael of Kent or Lady Colin Campbell who both go by their husband's names. You hear some older women refer to themselves as "Mrs John Smith" as well, although this seems to be fading out fast.
Even in the US, it's not a given that sons with the same name as their fathers use "Jr." Sometimes a roman numeral is used; sometimes a distinctive middle name.
I think that's overstating things. Women not taking their husbands' names goes at least as far back as when women's lib was is full bloom in the '70s. The 2013 article seems to be coming from the perspective of "Why is this still a thing?," rather than announcing the invention of the wheel.
And still, in 2013, 90% of the women did it. I suppose that in 87 was even more. If something is done by more than 9 out of 10 people I'm reasonably sure it's considered the default. And there's that 50% of people who say that wives should be required BY LAW to take their husband's surname. And as for the 70s lib, I'm sure over time people have categorized it under the label "Crazy Things Feminists Said in the 70s". I admit I didn't look long, but this about husbands' last names doesn't seem like a serious discussion happening right now in the United States, except on a very academic level. Even now, if a husband wanted to legally take his wife's surname, in some states it would be a somewhat complex process, while the reverse is easier because it is considered a "naturally" part of marriage. I'm reasonably sure they weren't more enlightened in '87 than that. I mean, Star Trek was just AMERICA IN SPACE. Before the new series the characters were very fond of saying how progressed and brightened the future was, but you rarely saw any evidence of that on screen. I mean, during TOS they thought it was incredibly modern to have a black woman be a glorified receptionist in a miniskirt, whereas in the contemporary "Mission Impossible" a black man was a scientific genius and was treated on a par with other team members.
In Quebec, marriage, by itself, is not a legal reason for taking a spouse’s family name. Only a (VERY EXPENSIVE) legal request for a full name change can make it happen and it is strongly discouraged. Been the case since 1977. In that year, when the law was established, it was also retroactively applied to all living married women. There was no option to grandfather existing uses, which led to much confusion among the elderly (my grandmother had been using her husband’s name for 50 years, nearly 3/4 of her life, for example). The attitude described above by Americans towards women who don’t take the husband’s name is just as strong, if not more so, towards those who do here. As for the rest of Canada, it works quite similarly to the US—automatic name adoption—though choosing not to is not difficult nor poorly received. Seems largely driven by the inertia of tradition rather than a significant ideological motive.
Well, they had Dr. Daystrom in TOS.
I don't mean to say that TOS was very inclusive by today's standards, but it sure was relatively progressive compared to other stuff on tv in America at that time.
In concept art for the episode, the shuttle was a lot smaller. I wonder if the FX team made a mistake or if it was scaled up to make it easier to see
https://twitter.com/daveblass/status/1627505656314970113?s=46&t=lcMSxVR61ASQr086eLW1Uw
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You mean the crazy guy who had a psychotic break?
Yes ... but it was also acknowledged that he was a child prodigy and genius. His role was definitely not a borderline racist black cliché.
But it wasn't unheard of in 1987; it simply wasn't the norm.
Speaking of men taking the woman's name, when John Lennon married Yoko Ono, he had "Ono" legally added to his name so that they'd both equitably be "Ono Lennon".
One of the VFX artists mentioned it was scaled up so that the docking ports were the right size.
They also said the shuttle was scaled properly based off the notes given by production
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As far as I can tell, it isn't anyhow controversial in Germany, but it's general consensus that it's a personal decision. As the number of (temporary or lasting) couples who marry at all has decreased over the last decades, those who do marry after all are usually very determined about their relationship, and accordingly choose a shared name (a friend of mine always used to say "marriage is for gays", but eventually still married). Which brings up the case of same sex marriage ... we have civil unions since 2001 and ssm since 2016, and those same sex spouses I personally know, chose a shared name (one of both gave up his surname).
When my wife and I married, she asked me to take my surname, because she is done with her family and also found her surname ugly ... but I guess if that hadn't been the case, I might have considered adopting her name.
The husband of a cousin of mine adopted her surname, though, for the sole reason that he felt her name sounds better.
Wait, that's not a French accent???
That accent is so British it got booked on a Sunday evening variety show taped in New York City.
The Shrike looks like a ginormous Tie Silencer/Interceptor.
