Non-Canon Names for Canon Characters - The Complete List

[Avro Arrow]

I just noticed that I can no longer edit my list to add new entries since the TrekBBS update. My last post from 2023 still has an edit button, but the list posts from 2021 don't. Will this be fixed in the future?

So I don't know about "fixed", since this was done intentionally, with the thought being that we should no longer allow indefinite editing, like we did previously. It was originally only set at 3 days, but has now been extended due to member feedback. I don't think the timeframe is entirely finalized, and is still under discussion.

Here's the link to the thread in QSF, if you're interested:
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/can-we-not-edit-for-as-long-now.317002/

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Have there been any additions to the character list in recent Treklit since we last added any?

 

[Airin]

Impressive list!

As addition, McCoy's ex-wife was called Honey in the "Planet of Judgment" novel.

 

[Extrocomp]

Have there been any additions to the character list in recent Treklit since we last added any?

Lost to Eternity had plenty of new names. Gillian Taylor now has a middle name. Mary Christine and Mary Michelle are the two nuns who were part of the tour group at the Cetacean Institute. Mildred Coates is the old woman who was cured of kidney failure. Ben McIntyre and Javier Valdez are the two garbagemen who were spooked by the HMS Bounty's arrival. The Voyage Home novelization just called them Ben and Javy.

Lost to Eternity also reaffirmed Khod as the name of the Klingon captain from Elaan of Troyius and Harpo as the name of George and Gracie's whale calf. And Naomi is now in the lead as Lieutenant Rahda's most often used first name.

Impressive list!

As addition, McCoy's ex-wife was called Honey in the "Planet of Judgment" novel.

Thanks.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Boy, she has a lot of names...

Jocelyn Treadway

This character is a member of the McCoy family. Jocelyn Treadway (neé Jocelyn Abigail Darnell) was a female Human in the 23rd century. She was born on March 11, 2227 in Georgia, North America on planet Earth, not long after the birth of Leonard McCoy and not long before that of Clay Treadway...

memory-beta.fandom.com

Edit:Or would that be aliases?

 

[Ogrebear]

This is such useful work for story writers or simply the curious.

Thank you.

 

[Enterprise1701]

In what one might consider a great exercise in originality or a stunning gap in consulting Memory Alpha and Memory Beta, Star Trek: Lower Decks #11 named George and Gracie's calf as Ronald, different from Harpo (from the 1999 anthology short story "The Hero of My Life" and the 2024 novel Lost to Eternity) or Jessie (from the 1987 FASA RPG module "The Hottest Blood of All").

 

[Extrocomp]

Thanks. IDW sometimes uses the same names as the novels like Kahless, son of Kanjis or Martok, son of Urthog, but other times uses completely different ones like Revo for Sela's father or Sarah for Sisko's daughter.

 

[Christopher]

It has never been a requirement or expectation for Trek tie-ins from one publisher to use any names or ideas from another publisher's tie-ins. This isn't Star Wars where there's a central office riding herd on all the tie-ins to make them consistent with each other. Trek tie-ins only have to be consistent with screen canon.

Anyway, "Ronald" makes sense, because George Burns & Gracie Allen's best-known son was named Ronnie. Harpo Marx was from the same generation of comedians as George Burns, but it's kind of an indirect allusion. And I can't think what the name Jessie might be based on, if anything.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Thanks. IDW sometimes uses the same names as the novels like Kahless, son of Kanjis or Martok, son of Urthog, but other times uses completely different ones like Revo or Sarah for Sisko's daughter.

I hate the name "Sarah Sisko" for Benjamin and Kasidy's child so much especially because it's another entry in the long list of glaring offenses by the writers who did not research their source material, namely the stupid Benjamin Sisko's egg donor was a sex slave for the Prophets storyline from DS9 season 7.