Anne Shirley (from the Anne of Green Gables series). It's the name she once dreamed of having, and her best friend Diana names one of her daughters "Anne Cordelia" after her.
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Lear carries his adult daughter Cordelia in his arms during the last act of King Lear. Thus, the famous advice from one venerable Shakespearean actor to another: Get a small (lightweight) actress to play Cordelia!
Meanwhile, I confess I have no idea who Walter Knott is.
Founder of Knott's Berry Farm. Which was originally a working farm specializing in (guess what?) berries. Knott was showing a new hybrid plant to somebody, who promptly asked what it was, and he named it after his neighbor, Rudolph Boysen, whom he credited with breeding it. Hence the Boysenberry. During the depression, the Knott family supplemented their income by opening their home to travelers as a restaurant, serving Cordelia Knott's fried chicken. And the idea of a theme park on the farm property originated as a way to entertain the people waiting for the next seating.
Oh, and I didn't read Anne of Green Gables until after I'd visited Prince Edward Island. (I've been to all 10 Canadian Provinces [and one Territory, namely Yukon], within 20 feet of the ground, just as I've been within 20 feet of the ground in all 50 States. 20 feet means passing through on a train counts, even if I'm in an upper level sleeping car accommodation, and never bothered to get out of bed, but flying overhead doesn't count.)
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Kind of struggling here to see what about that reminded you of Star Trek in some way, as the OP mentioned, but moving right along...
The problem for me with Star Wolf is how self-indulgent it is, and that it's almost autofanwank at times. Sure, his bad feelings about Roddenberry and Maizlish are entirely understandable, but he really, really makes sure anyone who knows the least bit about TNG behind the scenes will understand how much he hates them. Not in a foreword or introduction, but in the novel. There's also not just a lot of recycling of his unproduced material, there's recycling of his already produced material, and frequent references to his own other fiction. But I guess writing the same story for the third time is one way to avoid finishing a series that he left hanging in 1993. (GRRM fans, google The War Against the Chtorr and you may feel a bit better. I'm glad I didn't start reading either, personally....)
True story: Back in the seventies, when my family was vacationing in CA, I chose the Universal Studios Tour (and the Hollywood Wax Museum) over Knott's Berry Farm, which I have still never visited.
Meanwhile, BUFFY fans surely think of another "Cordelia" first.
Our rabbit heroes are traveling when they find a strange, idyllic settlement that seems too good to be true...and it is, horrifyingly so. The price of Eden and all that.
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I've been to Universal 2 or 3 times. The first time when the primary attraction was an actual tour of a working studio.
More recently, I took the Paramount tour. Which still is an actual tour of a working studio.
Many sources claim that was Sir John Gielgud’s advice to either Michael Hordern or Ian McKellen, but apparently it goes back to an early 20th-century actor, Donald Wolfit.
Who I know best as the mad scientist in Blood of the Vampire (1958), where he was made up to resemble Bela Lugosi!
I believe Wolfit was also the real-life inspiration for the fading, somewhat dotty Shakespearean actor in the play and movie, The Dresser.
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Thinking of Shakespeare I suppose The Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V) could have particular appeal to Star Trek fans with the friendships vs duty angle in Henry V
And the rarest I know of is the Gus Grissom biography, Ray Boomhower's Gus Grissom: The Lost Astronaut, published by Indiana Historical Society Press.
