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Huh?
The name comes from the script but was never mentioned in dialogue or the credits. Apparently "strict canonical adherence" means it doesn't count to some folks. Because apparently we can't apply Occam's Razor anymore because Canon.
I'm surprised Star Trek fans can even wipe their ass, since toilet paper has never been featured in On Screen Canon...
The spiky faced alien on the bridge of the Enterprise in Disco's Such Sweet Sorrow is listed in the credits as Yeoman Colt, which Michelle Paradise has confirmed was intended to be the same character from The Cage.
Yeah I just checked that. Weird but, not a deal breaker. She was cuter before, though.
(the character, not the actress.)
It doesn't matter. No one called her "Colt," so they can introduce anyone in the world and call her "Colt" and the show has never contradicted itself.
It's contradicted a shooting script. Oh, an actor credit* too, I suppose.
The triviality of the insistence that on principles of "common sense" this represents a meaningful inconsistency - in a franchise that's ripe with real ones - is hard to overstate.
*What writer, one wonders, imagined the rich and peculiar life history and family eccentricities of that fellow whose parents christened him "Man on Subway Car?" The character recurred in more than one 70s crime drama, I'm sure.
Or TNG.
I think it's just a question of convenience. It's easier to ignore The Cage's Colt's name than it is to ignore the new one's, and it's thus easy to elimate the contradiction.
However... why would an alien be named "Colt"?
Modern Star Trek does have aliens named Linus, Jennifer and Barnes
Same reason we have aliens named Spock, Kira, Jadzia and Kang.
It's a single syllable. In a galaxy where the vast majority of sentient species have philtrums, for God's sake, it's not even unlikely that such a sound is used as a name in, oh, half a billion cultures.
I mean, Nog.
The kid was named after an Earth beverage and I don't remember any anger over his name.
The kid was named after an Earth beverage and I don't remember any anger over his name.
Related to Quark and Rom. You'll never hear those words on Earth.
I mean, Quark. The Ferengi clearly heard about Earth sitcoms from the '70s.
Now this reminds me of that time the O'Briens were planning to name their son Seán (it might be a family name considering Seán Aloysius O'Brien), and Odo casually mentioned it meant "swamp" in Bajoran.
And in the novels, Rom and Leeta named their daughter Bena, the Bajoran word for joy, which apparently also means "underflooring" in Ferengi.
With so many humanoid races having vocal tracts and mouths with practically identical structures, I think it can be taken for granted that any given name would mean something stupid or offensive in one alien language or the other.
And in the novels, Rom and Leeta named their daughter Bena, the Bajoran word for joy, which apparently also means "underflooring" in Ferengi.
With so many humanoid races having vocal tracts and mouths with practically identical structures, I think it can be taken for granted that any given name would mean something stupid or offensive in one alien language or the other.
...which are generally not English-sounding.
I'm pretty sure you'd agree an alien called "Bjornsen" would be pretty weird. It's not the impossibility, but the oddness factor.
Or "Borg".
I mean, the Romulans' homeworld and its sister planet are named after ancient human myth.
Offhand, it looks like I made an observation about one-syllable sounds, and you replied with an example involving at least two syllables.
Pretty sure "Romulan" is a tag the Earth folk hung on their unseen, rarely-contacted adversaries in a deep-space war.
What does "English" have to do with it? Your comment was about aliens with human sounding names.
Excellent point. As Serveaux points out it could've been coined by humans, however. Same for Vulcans, in fact.
The number of syllables is not very relevant to the point I raised. Given the huge number of cultures, you could end up with much longer names that happen to be the same as an Earth name... but for the audience it would still be weird.
Colt is an English name.
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