Why is there a Daystrom building already?

[Robert D. Robot]

Shatner auditioned for the part of yelling, "Khaaaan!!!!", back in The Ultimate Computer, when he yelled, "Daystrom!!!"

Connection? Oh, probably none. But I just thought I'd mention it.

Have you ever listened to the end of "Mr. Tambourine Man" on William Shatner's first Album, The Transformed Man from 1968? If you haven't please do! It sounds as if the Tambourine Man had just left Shatner buried alive inside a dead moon....!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Daystrom designed the duotronic computers Starfleet uses on their ships in 2243 in the Prime Universe. If he has accomplished the same thing in the Alternate Universe, it makes perfect sense to me that a building on the Starfleet Headquarters campus 16 years later could be named after him.

If he's dead, perhaps, but naming it after a living person who's at that point in his thirties and hasn't done anything worthwhile since he was in his early twenties is still really weird and unusual.

Well, I'm not intimately familiar with 23rd century alternate universe military/scientific organization building naming conventions the way you apparently are, so I'll have to take your word for it.

All I know is that in the present day in business, government, and academia they name buildings after living people all the time, and even ones in their thirties occasionally (especially now with young software and internet developers making millions or billions). Also, though the military typically honors dead people when naming things, living people who made massive contributions to their field (like Daystrom did in the Prime Universe) are also honored occasionally as well.

And who says Daystrom hasn't done anything worthwhile since developing duotronic computers, and why should "only" developing a revolutionary computer system used in all Starfleet ships and across the Federation mean he's unworthy of being honored by having a building or room named after him? What, because a few years passed it's not worthy of recognition any more? Plus, while he was personally chasing the huge accomplishments of his youth, that doesn't mean he was doing nothing of worth in the meantime.

Kirk saved the entire planet Earth, a rather decent accomplishment as well.
Should there then be a James T. Kirk building somewhere?

Uh, yeah, there probably should be. They built a whole construction facility in his father's hometown because of his sacrifice to save 700 of his crew, and Jimmy T. beat that by like ten billion.

 

[dahj]

Uh, yeah, there probably should be. They built a whole construction facility in his father's hometown because of his sacrifice to save 700 of his crew, and Jimmy T. beat that by like ten billion.

Kinda my point:
Jimmy, alive -> no building
Dad, dead -> building.

 

[Tommunist]

"I upgraded your duotronic processors with isolinear chips."
"Wow, you must be some sort of computer science genius!"
"No, I'm a Starfleet groundskeeper. But I did stay at the Daystrom Inn last night..."

And as a counter to Dodge's point:
Jonathan Archer had boatloads of things named after him while still living.

In the end, we have insufficient on-screen data to definitively say if this was the same Daystrom, let alone the nature of why there is a room, wing or bulding named after that person. Of course, the name itself is a little "easter-egg" reference to Trek fans, but how it relates to what we previously know is unclear (at this time!).

 

[Christopher]

^Sure, we can't say anything definitively -- but we can say that it is at least possible that Richard Daystrom already has a Starfleet facility named in his honor. It may seem unusual, but it's not completely out of the question.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Shatner auditioned for the part of yelling, "Khaaaan!!!!", back in The Ultimate Computer, when he yelled, "Daystrom!!!"

Connection? Oh, probably none. But I just thought I'd mention it.

Have you ever listened to the end of "Mr. Tambourine Man" on William Shatner's first Album, The Transformed Man from 1968? If you haven't please do! It sounds as if the Tambourine Man had just left Shatner buried alive inside a dead moon....!

Yep!

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Uh, yeah, there probably should be. They built a whole construction facility in his father's hometown because of his sacrifice to save 700 of his crew, and Jimmy T. beat that by like ten billion.

Kinda my point:
Jimmy, alive -> no building
Dad, dead -> building.

And you know that he has nothing named after him, because..? You're making an awful lot of assumptions here about things that have not been established onscreen, and all to make an incredibly minor complaint about a perfectly reasonable one second namedrop of a conference room or building that had no bearing on the plot of the film at all.

 

[dahj]

And you know that he has nothing named after him, because..?

Do you really think anyone anywhere in Starfleet would think Kirk's ego needed more stroking to suggest they name a building after him?

You're making an awful lot of assumptions here about things that have not been established onscreen, and all to make an incredibly minor complaint about a perfectly reasonable one second namedrop of a conference room or building that had no bearing on the plot of the film at all.

Are you new to Start trek fandom? Jumping to conclusions on minute details is pretty much 90% of what we do

Also, where on earth did you get the impression that I'm complaining about anything?

I'm theorizing that in this universe Daystrom is already dead for some reason or another. Personally, I'm assuming he was scuba diving in San Francisco Bay during Narada's attack

 

[Christopher]

I'm theorizing that in this universe Daystrom is already dead for some reason or another.

And there's absolutely no reason why that hypothesis should be necessary. By now we've adequately disproved your premise that buildings are exclusively or preferentially named after dead people. I still don't understand why you believed that to be the case to begin with.

 

[dahj]

And there's absolutely no reason why that hypothesis should be necessary.

I've never claimed it was necessary, just more probable. Which it is.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

And there's absolutely no reason why that hypothesis should be necessary.

I've never claimed it was necessary, just more probable. Which it is.

More probable? Bullshit.

The Einstein Tower was completed in 1924, over 30 years before Einstein died. Einstein's work was, you know, so important that he was a legend in his own time.

/thread

 

[The Old Mixer]

Daystrom might have donated the building and named it after his dad or another ancestor of that name. That sort of thing happens IRL.