Speculation on Captain T'Shen Kovil's name

[AaronMorse]

So three thoughts...

1) Maybe the character was supposed to be an Andorian.

2) Maybe his first name is a family name.. perhaps his grandfather was saved by am Andorian in the Romulan Wars and named his son and therefore his grandson T'Shen.

3) Maybe his name is hyphenated T'Shen-Kovil and he's married to an Andorian.

I suppose it could also be a Vulcan name too.. but I like those Blue Devils!

 

[Timo]

...Who?

But T'Shen sounds Chinese to me. That is, it looks Chinese to me, even if not a standard translitteration. If there's an odd pronunciation inherent in the hyphen - say, "te-shen" instead of "tshen" - then it could possibly be Andorian, though.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[AaronMorse]

Lol.. was the name of the Captain of the USS Gagarin (NCC-1309)

*gasp! Timo didn't know something! Has that ever happened before? I though he was like me.. a walking talking Memory Alpha!

 

[The Wormhole]

I think his name was meant to be T. Shen Kovil, but somewhere along the line that ended up turning into T'Shen. T'Shit happens.

 

[Timo]

Did we see that in writing somewhere?

If not, Achankovil is a river in Kerala...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[ralph]

Kovil is something hindu.
The name T'Shen, I found in a book Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires.
T'Shen was a Vulcan engineer from the city of PellHan. In 2295, when the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance conquered Vulcan.
With no relation whatsoever with the character.

Michael Boisvert played Captain T'Shen Kovil of the U.S.S. Gargarin, who went down with his ship in the Star Trek: Discovery episode, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum." The Toronto-based actor and director counts among his many film and television credits Prince Charming, Queer as Folk, Stargate: Atlantis, Murdoch Mysteries, The Listener, Pixels, Dark Matter and Jigsaw.

Be that as it may, he and USS Gagarin are canon.

 

[Satron]

Kovil is something hindu.
The name T'Shen, I found in a book Star Trek: Mirror Universe: Glass Empires.
T'Shen was a Vulcan engineer from the city of PellHan. In 2295, when the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance conquered Vulcan.
With no relation whatsoever with the character.

Michael Boisvert played Captain T'Shen Kovil of the U.S.S. Gargarin, who went down with his ship in the Star Trek: Discovery episode, "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum." The Toronto-based actor and director counts among his many film and television credits Prince Charming, Queer as Folk, Stargate: Atlantis, Murdoch Mysteries, The Listener, Pixels, Dark Matter and Jigsaw.

Be that as it may, he and USS Gagarin are canon.

He was in Pixels?
Then his character had too easy a death in DSC.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Perhaps one or both of his parents had a Vulcan friend named T'Shen and they decided to name their son after this person.

 

[Boomer359]

The name certainly sounds like he was meant to be something other than human.

Then again, humans make up or use crazy names for their kids now. How many Katnisses or Khalessis are running around right now? Who knows what kind of weird-ass stuff we'll be naming kids in 200 years.

 

[Tim Thomason]

The series is just being goofy with their names again. It can give us a neat idea on T'Shen's family background, if we're so inclined to contemplate.