It's gonna go on your permanent record."Consequences"? Really?
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08 - "Four-And-A-Half Vulcans"
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It sounds like your headcanon and my headcanon would be friends.This whole discussion is why 'head-canon' is so important. Decide for yourself what is canon and what isn't, and ignore everyone else's loud jabbering. Life is much more pleasant that way.
My personal canon includes materials from some (but not all) Trek books and publications, some from the old FASA Trek game, John Ford Klingons, Diane Duane Romulans, and so on. SNW is a parallel timeline to 1960's TOS. My canon is mine, and I'm perfectly happy with it, and everyone else can run with whatever they want their 'canon' to be. This is about the only case in existence of my being okay with any sort of non-objective 'truth.'
Not sure if it will help or hurt either side in the current debate on the SNW Enterprise's true size, but I just posted on my socials my re-creation of this "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" screen graphic that appeared in last weekās episode. āVul-Khan Laāanā accesses the screen, seen only briefly and from an extreme angle, as she attempts to enhance the Enterpriseās weaponry. I believe it is as close as we have come to having an MSD of the SNW Enterprise. Original by Tim Peel.
Very, very weird, but Xev/Zev helped to keep me interested.
I realised that the whole thing with Doug and his parents obsession with human names has sort of explained why Jennifer the Andorian has a human name.
I mean that would be more common by the time of Lower Decks. However given Patton Oswalt's look of circa 60 and the slower aging of Vulcans, Doug probably was born around the time of Enterprise. And we didn't see a lot of Vulcans who were fans of humans in Enterprise honestly.
We often borrow names from other cultures when naming children. Makes sense that in a multi-cultural galactic society it would also happen.
Well, for the ultimately inconsequential episode that it was, it was tightly woven and well executed, dealing nicely with several different relationship threads. Was that the Beastie Boys accompanying the newly minted Vulcans marching at the start? Loved the way the half-Vulcan Spock had to carry all the luggage during the nuclear fix away mission... The Kirk-Scotty dynamic was really well done, and I sure hope we get a first-year Kirk-led Trek once SNW is over. Scotty's electric solution to La'an's mutinous actions was spot-on. I guess La'an resisting a reversion to her old self was the Khan part of her, which made her more Romulan than Vulcan... the fight between her and Spock resolving in a series of dancing moves was absolutely fabulous. The after-credits banter between Spock and Doug was a bit of an eyeroll, but made worth it by that wide smile at the end. Pelia didn't bother me as much as usual, and everything fit together better than it should have, so a solid 9.
Have we had any examples of it before Lower Decks introduced us to Jennifer the Andorian and Taylor the Kzinti?
Aside from maybe the odd person directly named after an alien like Leonard James Akaar I can't think of the galactic society really cross-pollinating in such a way.
I can't think of any. But the population of the Federation is probably in the high billions, so its much more likely than what the franchise shows us. Then you have names that have parallels on Earth: Chang, Kang, Kira, Odo, Nerys, Dax, Marta...
And all the humanoid aliens with Earth-sounding names like Abrom and Isak.
Well, you guys know why he calls himself 'Doug'...all Vulcans have an unpronounceable name.
"You never told me if you had another name, Mr Spock?"
"You couldn't pronounce it."
"You never told me if you had another name, Mr Spock?"
"You couldn't pronounce it."
Cute, but the episode states that his parents named him "Doug."
T'Son of TV's Frank.
So The Enemy Within was serious, or stupid? Which was it?
Stupid premise, serious story.
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