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Because we haven't had enough versions of that in the books already...

 

Very interesting...if it's set alongside that event, will Dayton's book maintain any continuity with

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Greg's Constellations story, "Though Hell Should Bar the Way"?

 

I haven't read any so it will be fresh for me

 

I wonder if this will be a Stamets story then?

 

I hear he's a fungi to be around.

 

That story was in Enterprise Logs, not Constellations.

 

^ That's the one, yup. Momentarily misremembered slightly, there.

 

Minor correction. That was in the Enterprise Logs anthology.

 

Your agonizer, please.

 

So in the Mirror Universe the agonizer is punishment, but since this isn't the MU asking for their agonizer is a pretty big compliment, right?

 

The "Engage" podcast has released a recording of the Discovery books and comics panel at STLV. It's the second half of the latest episode. I've tried to link to the direct time-code, but it's not landing in the same place consistently. I'm not sure, but I think the server is injecting different ads into the show every time it's downloaded, so things aren't always in the same place. In any case, it starts somewhere around an hour and five minutes in.

 

Found that a really interesting listen - including how to pronounce Georgiou.

 

Gee-or-gee-oh?

 

Sounded like they were saying it more like Jaw-ju

 

The moderator seemed to say it like "Zhor-zhoo," which seems pretty close to the way a French name like that would be pronounced, but who knows if he was saying it right? Who was the moderator anyway?

 

You mean a Greek name, right?

 

Oh, it looked French to me. My mistake. But the panel moderator seemed to think it was French too.

I looked it up, and it looks like most sources say the name is pronounced "George-ee-oh" or "George-yo," basically.

 

Movie critic Jordan Hoffman, who's also the host of the Engage podcast. It's hard to say how much unreleased material he has access to as host of the Official Star Trek Podcast™, but I'm assuming he would've checked with someone before moderating a marathon four-hour series of Discovery panels.

 

It might be an Anglicized version of whatever her Asian name is?

 

Lots of people have names that don't match their ancestral ethnicity, due to immigration, intermarriage, cultural mixing, etc. Heck, if we can have a blonde woman named Leila Kalomi, we can have an ethnically Chinese woman named Philippa Georgiou. (If anything, it's unrealistic that we don't see more humans with alien names, or vice-versa. Then again, "Spock" is a Dutch surname...)

That said, a lot of Chinese people adopt Western given names for interacting with English speakers who might find their given names hard to pronounce -- for instance, Yeoh Choo-Kheng adopting the Western name Michelle Yeoh. Sometimes they might do it with surnames as well. Or maybe Georgiou is her married name. There are all sorts of possibilities.