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Please don't name him Owen

My wife has the same middle name as the forename as her mother and her middle name is the same as her mothers surname, so when we have children, we plan plan on carrying that tradition with a daughter we have.

If we have a son, we plan on calling him Christopher and name him after my father who died in May and also after my marternal grandfather who died a fair few years ago now.

Given that last bit, I get why someone would name there child in honour after a deceased relative.
 
Avro Arrow said:
Christopher said:
In my first published story back in 1998, I named a 22nd-century female character Zena, because I figured we could expect a wave of girls named Xena and Gabrielle in the near future, and that in another several generations the TV origin (and spelling) of the name Xena might've been partly forgotten.
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Well, Zena (with that spelling) is a real name though, and it has been around a lot longer than the TV show you're referencing.
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Well, obviously. My point was that I expected it to become more common.
 
Christopher said:
Avro Arrow said:
Christopher said:
In my first published story back in 1998, I named a 22nd-century female character Zena, because I figured we could expect a wave of girls named Xena and Gabrielle in the near future, and that in another several generations the TV origin (and spelling) of the name Xena might've been partly forgotten.
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Well, Zena (with that spelling) is a real name though, and it has been around a lot longer than the TV show you're referencing.
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Well, obviously. My point was that I expected it to become more common.
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Maybe there's invisible wall acting against that name. They couldn't even name a dwarf planet after her.
 
Markonian said:
Maybe there's invisible wall acting against that name. They couldn't even name a dwarf planet after her.
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Well, they kinda did, because they did manage to name its moon Dysnomia, which is the Greek word for (and the goddess of) lawlessness.
 
In New Frontier,
didn't PAD have a baby named after a dead character and then the character turned out to not be dead?
So funny!
 
^ Xy and Burgoyne have a discussion about that in After the Fall. "You named me after someone who supposedly died heroically to save us but now it turns out he didn't, that he faked it and ran away instead? Also he's a kidnapper too, now?" That sort of thing. :lol:

Of course, Xyon junior is still one of the best-named characters in Trek lit, because of the joke inherent in the nickname "Xy". When he's born, given of course that he's half-Hermat, the others ask what sex the baby is, and Burgoyne and Selar answer "boy" a little too quickly and firmly. He's male. XY. No questions. :lol:
 
This naming scheme is reminiscent of the final chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that everybody hated because the full name of pretty much every member of the next generation was taken from the dead.
 
vegaslover62 said:
This naming scheme is reminiscent of the final chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that everybody hated because the full name of pretty much every member of the next generation was taken from the dead.
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I haven't heard anyone that hated it because of that. Especially when there's so many other reasons to do so. :p
 
Kilana2 said:
Parallels Deanna had children with Worf, Eric-Christopher and Shannara....... No clue, where Parallels Deanna came up with those names.
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She did already use up her dead father's name Ian Andrew on the alien pregnancy from Season 2.
 
And of course there's the canon example, Worf son of Mogh son of Worf son of Mogh son of Worf...

And I believe we've seen an Enterprise era Duras as well.
 
I haven't kept up with the novels in later years. So, I didn't know about Baby Riker or Baby Picard.

I had imagined Troi maybe naming a child of her own after the sister she never met, Kestra.
 
Tracy Trek said:
I haven't kept up with the novels in later years. So, I didn't know about Baby Riker or Baby Picard.

I had imagined Troi maybe naming a child of her own after the sister she never met, Kestra.
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Maybe Troi's second child if there will ever be one.....
 
Why limit to those? if Rene can have five names, let's go for Owen Owen Owen Owen Paris.
 
^ Or something like Owen Walter Eugene Nigel Paris. Then he can be both Owen Paris and OWEN Paris! ;)
 
JD said:
I don't really have a problem with them naming the 2nd Paris kid Owen, it makes sense in context.
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I agree. Yes Julia went crazy for a while but it wasn't Owen's fault. It isn't like he asked the Borg to come by and blow the Starbase he was on out of existence and I think the fact that his last words were a message to Tom and the effort he put into getting that message out before he died will mean a lot to Tom, and probably B'elanna as well.
 
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