General Trek Questions and Observations

[1001001]

I think you're probably right. Let's move it to GTQO thread and see how it goes.

 

[Kor]

Does anyone noticed any trends in the names chosen for Human characters in various series? I have the impression that TOS chose first and last name pairings for minor characters that were multicultural more often (first from one culture, last from another), or that more dignified/aristocratic sounding names were given to characters in those days. Whereas TNG did a bit of that early on but shelved it.

Am I off-base/missing something?

The only one I can think of is Jose Tyler.

Kor

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Maybe I'm thinking of the TOS books I've read...I really don't know where I got the idea...

 

[Tenacity]

Minor characters usual got a rank and a last name.

 

[Mojochi]

William Shatner, born March 22 1931. James T. Kirk, born March 22 2233. Aries (March 21-April 19) Character Traits Enterprising, Incisive, Spontaneous, Daring, Active, Courageous and Energetic, Impatient, Impetuous, Vain, Proud and Egoistic

 

[SailorLadyGaga]

Should there be ever be a British captain?

That would be kinda nice.

 

[Tosk]

Do we know yet what accent Isaacs will be going with?

 

[somebuddyX]

An Australian anything would be nice

 

[Tenacity]

William Shatner, born March 22 1931. James T. Kirk, born March 22 2233. Aries (March 21-April 19) Character Traits Enterprising, Incisive, Spontaneous, Daring, Active, Courageous and Energetic, Impatient, Impetuous, Vain, Proud and Egoistic

I don't think I would describe Kirk as impatient, vain or egoistic.

 

[Mojochi]

I don't think I would describe Kirk as impatient, vain or egoistic.

I don't know about impatient (Kelvinverse Kirk is) but vain & egoistic? yeah maybe sometimes. Or maybe that's just the Shatner bleeding through

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Impatient? Yeah, I'd say Kirk fits that mold. But not vain or egotistical.

 

[RAMA]

http://www.startrek.com/article/poll-says-best-ever-trek-episode-is

Mostly what we'd expect. Pretty large sample size.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

The only one on there that I would consider a true favorite of mine is Darmok. CotEoF and Mirror are up there but there's several TOS episodes I'd put over them.

 

[Greg Cox]

A pretty good slate overall. Can't really complain about any of them winning the poll; they're all genuine contenders.

 

[DS9forever]

Was this on Facebook?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Should there be ever be a British captain?

That would be kinda nice.

An Australian anything would be nice

An alien would be even better!

 

[Forbin]

There were Australian aliens all over the place on Farscape!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Did any other Trek series give characters hats to wear with their dress uniforms like the reboot films did? I liked those.

 

[F. King Daniel]

In the original pilot episode "The Cage", we saw a similar hat on Captain Pike's TV. Here's a link to a good pic and [URL='https://www.trekbbs.com/members/gschnitzer.10555/']GSchnitzer's replica[/URL].

I have no idea if this was the original intention, but an old fan manual combined the hat with the dress uniform seen in the Orion sequence from "The Cage":

 

[The Old Mixer]

Did any other Trek series give characters hats to wear with their dress uniforms like the reboot films did? I liked those.

This would be a textbook example of what I created the General Trek Questions and Observations thread for.