Name the Captains' kids!
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Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
It's explained in Over a Torrent Sea why they chose that name. And people can grow very close in a year or less. Deanna and Tasha were best friends during that year, though we rarely got to see it. And her loss hit all the crew pretty hard.
It's explained in Over a Torrent Sea why they chose that name. And people can grow very close in a year or less. Deanna and Tasha were best friends during that year, though we rarely got to see it. And her loss hit all the crew pretty hard.
Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
I was named "William" after my father (and his father), but my middle name was just a name my parents liked. Of my five other siblings, only one was named for a relative, and in that case, my parents gave him the German version of our Italian grandfather's name. My four nieces, likewise, were given names their parents just liked.
All of which is a long way of saying, there doesn't actually have to be any logic behind a child's name.
I was named "William" after my father (and his father), but my middle name was just a name my parents liked. Of my five other siblings, only one was named for a relative, and in that case, my parents gave him the German version of our Italian grandfather's name. My four nieces, likewise, were given names their parents just liked.
All of which is a long way of saying, there doesn't actually have to be any logic behind a child's name.
Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
They can still use Jack as a middle name but with the French spelling of Jacques.
They can still use Jack as a middle name but with the French spelling of Jacques.
Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
Us Frenchies love compound names (to wit, Jean-Luc), so you could bypass a middle name and just have a mash-up in the first, like Jack-René (no, not a bad 24 'ship). The linguistic shift might seem a little odd, but I've seen anglophone names incorporated wholesale into French ones before, and given that the pronounciation of Jean-Luc was always anglophone in the first place, it seems such differences have largely vanished in the 24th.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Us Frenchies love compound names (to wit, Jean-Luc), so you could bypass a middle name and just have a mash-up in the first, like Jack-René (no, not a bad 24 'ship). The linguistic shift might seem a little odd, but I've seen anglophone names incorporated wholesale into French ones before, and given that the pronounciation of Jean-Luc was always anglophone in the first place, it seems such differences have largely vanished in the 24th.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
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Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
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Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
When my dad's around people who speak French, he's Jacques, and when he's around people who speak English, he's Jack. But technically, as I understand it, among English speakers Jack is traditionally a substitute casual name for John. John in French is Jean; Jacques is the equivalent of James or Jacob.
In other words, Jack/Jacques works in the real world, but they're not the same name.
Pedantically yours,
Steven Jacques Roby
When my dad's around people who speak French, he's Jacques, and when he's around people who speak English, he's Jack. But technically, as I understand it, among English speakers Jack is traditionally a substitute casual name for John. John in French is Jean; Jacques is the equivalent of James or Jacob.
In other words, Jack/Jacques works in the real world, but they're not the same name.
Pedantically yours,
Steven Jacques Roby
Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
my parents named me by writing a list of names they liked with my 2 sisters and picking the top 2.
Scott Nicholas.
my parents named me by writing a list of names they liked with my 2 sisters and picking the top 2.
Scott Nicholas.
Re: Name the Riker/Troi and Picard/Beverly kids!
Not always. Jonathan Frakes always said it with a French pronunciation. I always found it ironic that the American Riker pronounced it the French way but the French Picard pronounced it the English way.
Not always. Jonathan Frakes always said it with a French pronunciation. I always found it ironic that the American Riker pronounced it the French way but the French Picard pronounced it the English way.
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I have no idea why I was named what I am and it's one thing I've never actually thought to ask - my fore and middle name are Daniel Peter for what it's worth.
My sister though named her daughter Serena as she liked the name - I think she saw a character on TV called that, but I'm not 100% sure.
Oh I'm sure when I get to the naming of the baby in the book (I'm on page 277) it'll make sense and I'll better understand the meaning with context, but to coin an American phrase (and apologies if it is either used wrong or accidentally causes insult) it comes across as "cute."
Just for the record, I have a very good friend from uni called Natasha and I rather like the name in general.
I have no idea why I was named what I am and it's one thing I've never actually thought to ask - my fore and middle name are Daniel Peter for what it's worth.
My sister though named her daughter Serena as she liked the name - I think she saw a character on TV called that, but I'm not 100% sure.
Oh I'm sure when I get to the naming of the baby in the book (I'm on page 277) it'll make sense and I'll better understand the meaning with context, but to coin an American phrase (and apologies if it is either used wrong or accidentally causes insult) it comes across as "cute."
Just for the record, I have a very good friend from uni called Natasha and I rather like the name in general.
After reading the last paragraph of the Author's Acknowledgments (as well as pages 181-183), I now understand why Christopher named the baby Tasha. And being a cat person, I feel doubly bad
I am only up to page 192 right now (though I did skip ahead to the very end, as I am frequently wont to do, to find out the baby's name); though I have not gotten to the naming portion yet...does she have a middle name?
Also, though not particularly related, is Lwaxana still alive in the literary Trek universe?
I am only up to page 192 right now (though I did skip ahead to the very end, as I am frequently wont to do, to find out the baby's name); though I have not gotten to the naming portion yet...does she have a middle name?
Also, though not particularly related, is Lwaxana still alive in the literary Trek universe?
Lwaxana was alive as of 2379 when R/T got hitched. not sure if she's alive as of '80 or '81, but i imagine so.
Picard & Crusher's baby will not be named until the 1st birthday, upon which the child will be given a book of names. Said baby will open book to a random page, and point to an entry at random. The result: Caesar.
I vote for "Robert Christopher James Tiberius Willard Spock John Rachelle Richard Jean-Luc Picard" .. or "Chuck"
After reading the last paragraph of the Author's Acknowledgments (as well as pages 181-183), I now understand why Christopher named the baby Tasha. And being a cat person, I feel doubly bad
I am only up to page 192 right now (though I did skip ahead to the very end, as I am frequently wont to do, to find out the baby's name); though I have not gotten to the naming portion yet...does she have a middle name?
Also, though not particularly related, is Lwaxana still alive in the literary Trek universe?
Yes she does have a middle name. Hint: Aili gave Riker the idea.
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