Well, I'm friends with Gerrold on Facebook. I suppose I could just ask him there.
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Well, I'm friends with Gerrold on Facebook. I suppose I could just ask him there.
Coulda been the Buffy/Angel character, too.
I think this wins the "best reason for it being a favorite" award.
Boy, what a coupla nerds.........Names come from a lot of different places for a lot of different reasons. My daughter's middle name being "Nerys" doesn't mean she's Bajoran.
. . . And I thought I was the only one who did that. . .
My daughter's middle name is also "Nerys," and my wife insisted on naming the dog "Dax."
(I kid -- I have a cat named after a Firefly character and a dog named after a Muppet....)
Hmmm . . . do these both come from the same man?
I find it surprising that by now we don't have a sizeable cohort of girls in their older teens named Xena and Gabrielle.
But in grade school, I did have a classmate named Nichelle Nicholls (or some such spelling that wasn't quite the same as the actress's surname). Since she was African-American and probably born around 1968, I figure she must've been named for the actress.
But in grade school, I did have a classmate named Nichelle Nicholls (or some such spelling that wasn't quite the same as the actress's surname). Since she was African-American and probably born around 1968, I figure she must've been named for the actress.
I went to grade school with a kid named Sun King, named after the Beatles song.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I met a girl in a different state who had dated him a few years earlier. Strange to think of some kid you were in first grade with as having a romantic relationship.
When I was in my mid-twenties, I met a girl in a different state who had dated him a few years earlier. Strange to think of some kid you were in first grade with as having a romantic relationship.
My daughters have Aeryn and Nerys as middle names (respectively).
Nobody, outside of the immediate circle, has picked up on their origins as yet.
I went to school with a girl named Jessica Fletcher, who also happened to be a redhead. It's just possible her parents were fans of Murder, She Wrote.
Actress Jaime Murray was named after Jaime Sommers of The Bionic Woman. I think I've heard of at least one other Jaime who was.
A friend from Uni named her daughter Aunika (sic), and I've always suspected a connection to Seven of Nine because a friends of hers named her daughter Jadsia (sic) quite deliberately.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the most famous Star Trek-inspired example of this, though: Kirk Cameron.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the most famous Star Trek-inspired example of this, though: Kirk Cameron.
^ Eh, 'Kirk' seems like a common enough name. It could be a coincidence.
It's not.
I was hoping Wikipedia could just point this out for me, but (sadly) I remember this factoid coming up frequently during the height of Kirk Cameron's initial Growing Pains/Teen Beat popularity.
And now Kirk Cameron has become an ultra-Christian right-winger who goes around promoting young-Earth creationism and condemning homosexuality. He may have been named for a Star Trek character, but it didn't have much impact on his values.
