timpson@comet.DEC (IN THE HANDS OF THE FATHER) (02/07/86)
>> Another point. The Federation is, as a whole, a peaceful group. Battleship >> is an awfully military term, and perhaps calling the Enterprise a heavy >> cruiser gives the Federation a few diplomatic points. I belive this point was >> brought up in one of the unofficial novels. After all, if the Enterprise can >> trash any given Klingon ship in battle, and they know it, what does it matter >> if it's called a heavy cruiser, a PT boat, or _GOD'S_WRATH_PERSONIFIED_? >In one of the episodes or one of the movies, didn't the Klingons refer >to the Big E as "a Federation Battle Cruiser"? I seem to recall a group >of Klingons hunched around a sensor readout. Seems like the Empire >isn't impressed with the Federation's diplomatic posturing. Yes as the Enterprise was entering the Mutara(sp) system Maltz was informing the Kingon commander that a Federation Battle Cruiser had arrived. Steve >>>I want to thank everyone who responded to my posting about >>>Sulu's first name. The results are unanimous. Sulu' >>>first name is Hikaru by all acounts, however it was suggested >>>that Walter Sulu was used in a novel. Still Hikaru is the >>>accepted name. >> >> even George Takei says sulu's name is Walter Hikaru Sulu >> p.s. Uhura has a first and middle name. I can never remember which one is >> which, but this is my favorite version: Nyoyta Penda Uhura. >> Chris Wayne @ UNM > >WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > I was at the Baltimore convention in January, and Takei said that >Hikaru is the APPROVED first name...he also said that any trivia dealing >with the characters must first be approved by Roddenberry. Hikaru has >the needed approval. > About Uhura's name, Nyoyta, is approved, however, I don't know about the >middle name. I don't know the spelling of it, but I do know that it means >?'freedom.' The middle name is Upenda which means Freedom and Nyoyta means Star. Steve
ins_bbdg@jhunix.UUCP (James T. Kirk) (02/12/86)
In his article, Steve writes: > The middle name is Upenda which means Freedom and Nyoyta means Star. What is your source? I recently saw ''Is There In Truth No Beuty,'' and when Spock melds with the Medusan, he says something like, ''And Uhura, who's name means freedom.'' I seriously doubt that he's referring to any other name than Uhura. I have no way of knowing which personal names Roddenberry has given Uhura, so I do not argue with the names themselves (though I think Upenda sounds like something sailboats do in a squall :-) -- "My favorite kind of diplomacy is a fully charged phaser bank." UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs \ BITNET: INS_BBDG@JHUVMS ihnp4!whuxcc > !jhunix!ins_bbdg P13I2691@JHUVM allegra!hopkins / CSNET: ins_bbdg@jhunix.CSNET ARPA: ins_bbdg%jhunix.BITNET@wiscvm.WISC.EDU