Trek names in real life?

[loldrey]

Recently, I actually met a kid (about 12 years old) named Jean-Luc Picard Travis (Jean-Luc being his first and Picard being his middle names). I was at a toy store (I'm still a little kid on the inside) and I heard a father calling out for "Jean-Luc".. So I stopped him and said, "I don't mean to be nosy, but I overheard you and just wanted to say that I think Jean-Luc is a really awesome name." He then replied, "Well, his full name is Jean-Luc Picard Travis.. his mother wanted to name him Data but I said he'd get made fun of too much."

Have you ever heard any Trek character names in real life? What were they?

 

[Michael]

Well, I know several Kiras. But that's not that uncommon a name. I also know someone with the last name Sevrin.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Have you ever heard any Trek character names in real life? What were they?

I know two Genes and a Deanna named for ST identities in the early 90s. And a James T. (but not Tiberius), born last year.

I used to have a wimpy female pet rat I wanted to toughen up, so I called her Valkris. It worked!

Friends of mine had two kids before I met them in the 80s. They'd called their son Luke, and then the daughter Leah, and wondered why people always assumed they were Star Wars fans. (They weren't.)

 

[captcalhoun]

i met a woman and her son in the shop i work in and the kid was called 'Ethan', i commented on it being a kinda rare name in England and said the only 'Ethan' i really knew was the guy in Mission: Impossible and she said, 'that's where I got the name from', so the kid's named for Ethan Hunt...

 

[The Wormhole]

Isn't/wasn't there a reporter on CNN named Miles O'Brien?

 

[Kryton]

Isn't/wasn't there a reporter on CNN named Miles O'Brien?

He, quite coincidentally, happens to be the chief SCIENCE reporter, so he's the guy who comes in during shuttle missions and such.

 

[M'Sharak]

Not exactly named after a Trek character, but what the hey...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock

Isn't/wasn't there a reporter on CNN named Miles O'Brien?

Yeah, I get a kick out of that, every time I see him.

 

[NTRPRZ]

I once met a fan who claimed to have legally changed his name to James T. Kirk. This must have been 20 years ago or so. I think I've still got a picture of him somewhere.

 

[M'Sharak]

I once met a fan who claimed to have legally changed his name to James T. Kirk. This must have been 20 years ago or so. I think I've still got a picture of him somewhere.

That reminds me, not of a person, but of a Bay Area part-time (made up of musicians who were members of other groups) funk/jazz/fusion band which originally performed under the name James T. Kirk (they played a mix of music by James Brown, Thelonious Monk and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.) Eventually, Paramount got wind of it and made them change their name, so they became T.J. Kirk instead.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I know someone named Rayna (named after the android). I also know a Kira, but that one is a coincidence.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Recently, I actually met a kid (about 12 years old) named Jean-Luc Picard Travis (Jean-Luc being his first and Picard being his middle names). I was at a toy store (I'm still a little kid on the inside) and I heard a father calling out for "Jean-Luc".. So I stopped him and said, "I don't mean to be nosy, but I overheard you and just wanted to say that I think Jean-Luc is a really awesome name." He then replied, "Well, his full name is Jean-Luc Picard Travis.. his mother wanted to name him Data but I said he'd get made fun of too much."

That's pathetic. Those people should have been neutered.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I know someone whose kids named their first daughter "Seven." Swear to God.

It's actually rather a powerful name once you get used to saying it.

 

[ToddPence]

The book "Letters to Star Trek" contains the account of a real-life couple who named their daughter "Miri". What that poor child must have undergone throughout her life . . .

The staff of Trek magazine, an early fan publication, contained a staff writer named Leslie Thompson, the same name as Julie Cobb's character in "By Any Other Name."

 

[loldrey]

Isn't/wasn't there a reporter on CNN named Miles O'Brien?

That's amazing. I've never seen him. (Incidentally, he's in my top five favorite Trek characters)

I know someone whose kids named their first daughter "Seven." Swear to God.

It's actually rather a powerful name once you get used to saying it.

It really is.. but here's hoping she doesn't strut around in skin-tight jumpsuits when she develops.

 

[ToddPence]

I know someone whose kids named their first daughter "Seven." Swear to God.

It's actually rather a powerful name once you get used to saying it.

Must have been the same family from the Peanuts comic strip who named their son "Five."

 

[Michael]

I know someone whose kids named their first daughter "Seven." Swear to God.

It's actually rather a powerful name once you get used to saying it.

Sure that's not George Costanzas idea?

 

[nx1701g]

Isn't/wasn't there a reporter on CNN named Miles O'Brien?

There was a clip on YouTube where someone mentioned that fact to him and he went on a rant about how he hated Star Trek.


One of my best friends named his son Chakotay when he was born (surprisingly he is not a Star Trek fan). My cousin's ex-wife told me one of her friends named her daughter Jadzia Nerys.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I once met a fan who claimed to have legally changed his name to James T. Kirk. This must have been 20 years ago or so. I think I've still got a picture of him somewhere.

That rather infamous fan, James T Kirk, was in the rec deck scene of ST:TMP. He is mentioned in the cool "Enterprise Incidents" article (1980), written by fellow rec deck fan extra Dennis Fischer, who then went on to review films for "Cinefantastique".

I added JTK and others to the list of known fan extras on Memory Alpha about a year ago. In the upcoming bonus features of the next DVD set of TMP, they have a reunion of many fan extras! Maybe he'll be there?

 

[Nardpuncher]

I had a buddy whose dad was an airline pilot and his dad had his work numbers on the fridge and there was a number for Captain Kirk. His first name was Paul or Pete though...I don't recall.

 

[Wonderlust King]

No children, but my love bird is named Kirk.