Ensign Wildmans Baybe

[TCC]

Hi all, I'm new hear but I have always asked my self one question, maybe you can help me.
Ensign Wildmsn, when pregnant was looking for a name for her unborn boy, the same time the doctor was looking for his.
She came up with Keskendrik. When it was time for her to deliver the bayby, it was a girl. Naomi. Dose anyone know why the chang in script was made from boy to girl?

 

[Lynx]

Hi all, I'm new hear but I have always asked my self one question, maybe you can help me.
Ensign Wildmsn, when pregnant was looking for a name for her unborn boy, the same time the doctor was looking for his.
She came up with Keskendrik. When it was time for her to deliver the bayby, it was a girl. Naomi. Dose anyone know why the chang in script was made from boy to girl?

I'm not sure that it was said that it was a boy.
But all the names discussed were boys names, even Greskrendtregk.
We can always assume that she didn't know or didn't want to know if it was a boy or girl at the time the name was discussed.

 

[Tosk]

It's been a while since I watched it but isn't it totally possible that our Samantha Wildman's baby was a boy?

Because Naomi actually comes from an alternate reality, no?

Edit: No, my bad. Samatha evidently finds out she's having a girl between Dreadnought and Deadlock. Samatha refers to her baby as she.

The script does seem to maybe acknowledge that change by having Alt-Samatha says that she really thought she'd have a boy.

 

[Oddish]

Because Naomi actually comes from an alternate reality, no?

The split point occured long after the pregnancy occured. So, the child was female in both versions of Voyager.

 

[Tosk]

That's why I edited my post days ago.

 

[at Quark's]

Never realised it but Samantha explicitly says during a prenatal checkup:
I've been considering naming him after my husband. It's been a tradition in his family for over five generations.

Possibilities (we've already ruled out the alternate universe theory):
1. For some reason, Samantha thinks her baby is male, while it's actually female. If, for some reason, she wouldn't want to know, I'd assume an 'if it turns out to be male' thrown in somewhere.
2. Naomi is a different baby, (obviously also from a Ktarian father)
3. The baby was exposed to the same type of radiation/particles Data's cat Spot had been exposed to.

 

[TCC]

Thank you for all your answers . Hpowever I do not suffer from the Mandela effect lol Don't think Wildman does either. Something like choosing a name for your baby kind of implys that you are already aware Whether it is a boy or a girl.
I'm still no closer to my answer than I was before The question was does anybody know why they changed the script?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe her Ktarian husband's name is unisex?

For some reason, Samantha thinks her baby is male, while it's actually female. If, for some reason, she wouldn't want to know, I'd assume an 'if it turns out to be male' thrown in somewhere.

Possibly written without thinking that people could know that information about their babies much earlier in gestation by the 24th century, but also works because 24th century Humans still like to be surprised.

 

[Deks]

It's been a while since I watched it but isn't it totally possible that our Samantha Wildman's baby was a boy?

Because Naomi actually comes from an alternate reality, no?

Edit: No, my bad. Samatha evidently finds out she's having a girl between Dreadnought and Deadlock. Samatha refers to her baby as she.

The script does seem to maybe acknowledge that change by having Alt-Samatha says that she really thought she'd have a boy.

Well, the split (spatial scission) in effect duplicated the ship and everything onboard (except anti-matter), and since Wildman was already pregnant (with a girl), the baby was a duplicate of the original.

So, it wasn't an alternate reality VOY, it was just an identical copy which happened to be out of phase (but occupying the same space-time as the original).
Since the split however, the 'original' ended up damaged because the anti-proton bursts were initiated by the duplicate - so it was kinda like we were observing twins taking different paths.

 

[The_Baroness]

Something like choosing a name for your baby kind of implys that you are already aware Whether it is a boy or a girl.

Nah, it was one of potentially dozens of potential names. Nothing actually chosen.

Most people, when expecting, have a number of options, for either gender. It really isn't weird.

 

[Michael]

I'm still no closer to my answer than I was before The question was does anybody know why they changed the script?

Well, there's no indication anyone changed any script. Apparently they just changed their mind on what sex they wanted to make Samantha Wildman's child from one episode to the other.

And indeed, the dialog from “Dreadnought” sounds unmistakably like they were planning at that point to make it a boy. Wildman says: “I've been considering naming him after my husband.”

The only bit I found on Memory Alpha that might possibly shed at least some light on this is this bit about Naomi’s name: “Naomi Wildman was named by Brannon Braga. He took her first name from a woman he was dating at the time.” Although I doubt they changed their mind about the baby’s sex just because Braga wanted to name it after his girlfriend.

 

[at Quark's]

Possibly written without thinking that people could know that information about their babies much earlier in gestation by the 24th century, but also works because 24th century Humans still like to be surprised.

Of course it's possible she wanted to be surprised. It's just that in that case I'd have expected her wording to have been slightly different.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

In the pregnancy story arc on I Love Lucy, the writers had Lucy and Ricky alternate calling the baby "he" and "she" before Lucy gave birth, even though the couple had no other option in the 1950s but to be surprised.

A mother may erroneously believe a baby will be one or the other based on old wives' tales, personal feeling, how hard they're being kicked, etc.

 

[Ragitsu]

Baybe baybe!

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[somebuddyX]

It's been a while since I watched it but isn't it totally possible that our Samantha Wildman's baby was a boy?

Because Naomi actually comes from an alternate reality, no?

Edit: No, my bad. Samatha evidently finds out she's having a girl between Dreadnought and Deadlock. Samatha refers to her baby as she.

The script does seem to maybe acknowledge that change by having Alt-Samatha says that she really thought she'd have a boy.

That would have been a cool twist if it had been possible.

 

[WarpTenLizard]

I've wondered that myself. They were setting up the baby to be a boy, before switching at the last minute. By the 24th Century you'd think that the baby's sex would be easily predicted. All I can figure is that Ktarian biology is weird enough to make the gender uncertain....but even then, in "Fury," a segment set during Wildman's pregnancy shows that the Doctor already knew it was going to be a girl.

For the meta reason, who knows why the writers changed their minds. Maybe they decided they wanted a little girl looking up to Janeway as a role model. Or maybe they thought a girl child-actor would be easier to work with than a boy.