Notable characters who never got a full name (in canon, at least).

[Timewalker]

Resently a poster here suggested (perhaps tounge in cheek) that Number One was "Commander Majel." To be honest, I like this.

The Early Voyages comics call her Commander Robbins, first name something beginning with "Eure-" (probably Eureka -- something she's embarrassed to use, which is why she prefers to go by Number One).

There are some Greek women's names that start with "Eure-" so maybe she preferred a different name that was easier to pronounce. Of course that wouldn't apply on duty, since what we saw of Captain Pike's ship was mostly formal. I can't imagine Number One ever being addressed by her first name while on duty.

 

[t_smitts]

The infamous Caithlin Dar.

Fair enough. So I guess there's two (and a precedent if we're being charitable).

Four: Don't forget Kimora Cretak and Telek R'Mor.

I never liked the idea of suddenly giving two names to members of one-named races.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fair enough. So I guess there's two (and a precedent if we're being charitable).

Four: Don't forget Kimora Cretak and Telek R'Mor.

I never liked the idea of suddenly giving two names to members of one-named races.

Who said they only had one name?

 

[Christopher]

I never liked the idea of suddenly giving two names to members of one-named races.

Whereas I've never liked the assumption that an entire species must have only one language or naming convention. Humans have hundreds. There are human cultures where people typically go by only one name (e.g. Indonesia), some where they have two (e.g. Japan), some where they typically have three (e.g. England and its offshoots), some where they have four or five (e.g. Latin America), and some where they can have ten names or more (e.g. the Arab world). So why are science fiction writers and fans so determined to force entire alien civilizations into linguistic monocultures?

Not to mention the unlikelihood that an entire planetary population, presumably in the billions, could manage with only a single name for each individual. The reason most human cultures adopted second or additional names is because eventually there were too many people in a given community to let you differentiate them with one name each. If you're talking about a planetwide or interstellar civilization, there must be some additional names or designators to identify each person, even if they don't habitually speak them aloud. (Again, the Arab world is a good example. The leader that the Western press refers to as "Saddam Hussein" was really named Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, with Hussein just being one of his middle names; and in normal usage within his own culture, he was called merely Saddam, even in formal contexts.)

 

[The Wormhole]

Here's a thought, shouldn't Worf technically have a last name? Yeah, I know, Klingons only have one name, and in formal situations mention their father's name to identify themselves (Worf, son of Mogh) but since Worf was adopted by the Rozhenkos, shouldn't he be Worf Rozhenko? Alexander is known as Alexander Rozhenko, even when he was serving in the Klingon military, so why doesn't Worf use the Rozhenko name. I know he's proud of his Klingon heritage, this seems somewhat disrespectful of his human parents.

 

[Christopher]

^Yeah, that's always bugged me. He should be Worf Rozhenko, at least on his Starfleet personnel file.

 

[Vandervecken]

The Traveller.
Governor Kodos.
The Albino.
Boothby.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Alexander is known as Alexander Rozhenko, even when he was serving in the Klingon military, so why doesn't Worf use the Rozhenko name. I know he's proud of his Klingon heritage, this seems somewhat disrespectful of his human parents.

Alexander was raised by K'Ehleyr alone, and I'm sure she intentionally de-emphasized her son's Klingon heritage. Worf didn't have that problem, he always knew he was a Klingon and wasn't raised to be ashamed of that. So maybe Worf just likes the Klingon form of his name.

As for different naming conventions: This isn't canon, I admit, but there are a few examples:

- Some Cardassians have the family name first (such as Thrax)

- Some Romulans don't have the first-name-last-name thing, but appear to have three different names (Valdore, for example). This also happened in some of the TOS novels as well.

 

[Captain Rob]

The Traveller.
Governor Kodos.
The Albino.
Boothby.

We all know that Boothby's first name is Martin.

 

[allstar77]

In Mandel's Officer's Manual, and others, Number One was Leigh Chapel, sister to Nurse Chapel. "Christine, girlfriend, have I got a fella for you!"

 

[Mojochi]

Here's a thought, shouldn't Worf technically have a last name? Yeah, I know, Klingons only have one name, and in formal situations mention their father's name to identify themselves (Worf, son of Mogh) but since Worf was adopted by the Rozhenkos, shouldn't he be Worf Rozhenko? Alexander is known as Alexander Rozhenko, even when he was serving in the Klingon military, so why doesn't Worf use the Rozhenko name. I know he's proud of his Klingon heritage, this seems somewhat disrespectful of his human parents.

Worf clearly chose a Klingon way of life very early on. He was a dick and likely always rejected formally recognizing them by name. He always knew who he was and his family history despite having been adopted. Alexander had literally no identity because he was tossed around from mother to father to adoptive grandparents & back to father again. There was nothing for him to adhere to besides the Rozhenkos, and it's even possible they went through a proper adoption procedure at some point with Alexander, and he may have given some kind of consent in effect

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I keep waiting for Alexander to change his name to "K'mtar, son of Worf".

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^I always thought that Alexander's use of his grandparents' name had more to do with his rejecting Klingon culture than it did any sort of adoption procedure.

--Sran

 

[Avro Arrow]

Here's a thought, shouldn't Worf technically have a last name? Yeah, I know, Klingons only have one name, and in formal situations mention their father's name to identify themselves (Worf, son of Mogh) but since Worf was adopted by the Rozhenkos, shouldn't he be Worf Rozhenko? Alexander is known as Alexander Rozhenko, even when he was serving in the Klingon military, so why doesn't Worf use the Rozhenko name. I know he's proud of his Klingon heritage, this seems somewhat disrespectful of his human parents.

^Yeah, that's always bugged me. He should be Worf Rozhenko, at least on his Starfleet personnel file.

Honest question, because I don't really know: is there even a requirement *today* that an adopted child has to be given the surname of the adoptive parents? If it's not even done all the time now, I don't see any reason why Worf would need to have the last name of Rozhenko.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Lieutenant Daniels in Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection. It was the novels that gave him the full name "Pádraig Bréanainn Daniels" (he is a human of Irish descent).

I hope that the transporter operator in Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness gets a proper name in Star Trek 3.

 

[Christopher]

^While we're on the subject of Danielseses, Crewman/Temporal Agent Daniels from Enterprise never got a full name -- in fact, Daniels probably wasn't his real name anyway.

 

[Enterprise1701]

And neither did Captain Braxton nor Lieutenant Ducane in "Relativity". NF: "Double Time" named the latter "Juel Ducane".

 

[eyeresist]

Does Female Changeling count as a full name (given name: Female, surname: Changeling)?

This is actually addressed on screen during the opening arc of the sixth season. Odo mentions that he doesn't know the Female Changeling's name, to which she replies, "What use would I have for a name?"

Which makes you wonder what she signed on the treaty ending the war in WYLB.

Maybe she signed "On behalf of the Great Link".

Or maybe she just wrote "Screw you and your stupid treaty", and no-one ever checked.

 

[Christopher]

And neither did Captain Braxton nor Lieutenant Ducane in "Relativity". NF: "Double Time" named the latter "Juel Ducane".

No, I named him that in Watching the Clock. I'd be very surprised if Peter David independently chose the same name I did. (I figured that "Ducane" was probably a simplified, futuristic spelling of the French name Duquesne, so I gave him a simplified spelling of "Jules" for his first name.)

 

[The Wormhole]

Here's a thought, shouldn't Worf technically have a last name? Yeah, I know, Klingons only have one name, and in formal situations mention their father's name to identify themselves (Worf, son of Mogh) but since Worf was adopted by the Rozhenkos, shouldn't he be Worf Rozhenko? Alexander is known as Alexander Rozhenko, even when he was serving in the Klingon military, so why doesn't Worf use the Rozhenko name. I know he's proud of his Klingon heritage, this seems somewhat disrespectful of his human parents.

^Yeah, that's always bugged me. He should be Worf Rozhenko, at least on his Starfleet personnel file.

Honest question, because I don't really know: is there even a requirement *today* that an adopted child has to be given the surname of the adoptive parents? If it's not even done all the time now, I don't see any reason why Worf would need to have the last name of Rozhenko.

Well it is odd Worf doesn't use Rozhenko but Alexander does.