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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
Member # 646
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Couple of questions I have for my Federation shiplist:
-Can someone please tell me which issue (month & year) of Star Trek: The Magazine had the article that mentioned the class designation "Ju'day-class" for the Maquis raider?
-What are the origins or meanings of the names Kobayashi Maru and Shiku Maru? (Thinking they were Japanese, I put them through Bablefish, but they didn't translate.)
-Are there any name origins/references in particular for such vessel names as Lakul, Nenebek, Norkova, Vico, Woden, Xhosa, and Zola?
Thanks, -MMoM
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EdipisReks
Member # 510
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um, Woden is Odin, the leader of the traditional Norse Gods. Xhosa is a tribe in Africa. don't know about the rest.
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Dr. Phlox
Member # 878
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The Nenebek comes from the name of one of the staff, I can't remember how to spell his name. I think that was mentioned in the encyclopedia.
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The359
Member # 37
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Maru is Japanese for ship I believe, so most civilian Japanese ships are Something Maru. So Kobayashi Maru and Shika Maru had to be some kind of famous Japanese vessels I believe.
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Mark Nguyen
Member # 469
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359 is dead on.
Mark <--- Nippon no kalchaa no otaku desu
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Dat
Member # 302
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Wasn't there an Alan Kobayashi on the production staff for one of the Trek series or during the movies?
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The_Tom
Member # 38
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Zola = �mile Zola, or we can probably assume so in term of the Trek universe. Probably one of the first journalists in history to kick ass and take names in teh name of teh democracy! (Oh, IIRC, Zola's an anime term as well.)
Two seconds of googling has turned up an Italian scientist/philosopher called Vico.
Uh, Mim, you did do some preliminary googling, right?
Alan Kobabayashi's an on-again off-again scenic artist on Trek moveis and series, but only since Generations.
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The Mike from C.A.P.T.A.I.N.
Member # 709
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Arnim Zola is much more famous!
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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Zola isn't just Cola with more... ZEST!?! ;o)
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Masao
Member # 232
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"Kobayashi" is a fairly common family name which means "small woods." Maru means circle, and is traditionally attached to Japanese ship names (non-military). I don't know what "shiku" means. My Japanese wife says it has no meaning, but I'll dig around a bit.
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aneurysm
Member # 906
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quote: Originally posted by Dr. Phlox: The Nenebek comes from the name of one of the staff, I can't remember how to spell his name. I think that was mentioned in the encyclopedia.
I think you mean Larry Nemecek.
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David Templar
Member # 580
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"Maru" is a suffix used exclusively for denoting civilian vessels, similar to "SS", except that it is a single Kanji character that comes after the name, and is intergrated somewhat into name. It's like saying you have to name your ship [whatever]-banana, you can use what you want in for the part in brackets, but you'll always identify the ship as "Enterprise-banana" or "Lexington-banana".
"Maru" does not mean "ship" by itself, it means "round". Only when it is attached to another word does the union of the two word identify a vessel, civilian, of Japanese origin.
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Harry
Member # 265
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Googling on 'shiku' has several possibilities:
This interpretation seems to be the most abundant, but is Chinese...
And there is a verb 'shiku' that means 'to spread out', or at least according to this and this.
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Dr. Phlox
Member # 878
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quote: Originally posted by aneurysm: quote: Originally posted by Dr. Phlox: The Nenebek comes from the name of one of the staff, I can't remember how to spell his name. I think that was mentioned in the encyclopedia.
I think you mean Larry Nemecek.
That's the one.
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AndrewR
Member # 44
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Nemecek wasn't on the staff though - he just wrote the Star Trek Companion... and that was AFTER "Final Mission".
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Dr. Phlox
Member # 878
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I must've intented it then. Weird. I could have sworn it said that in the encyclopedia.
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MinutiaeMan
Member # 444
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*bump*
Much apologizings for my thread necromancy, but I'm writing an article about the Maquis raider and could use a specific reference to the month/year of the ST:Magazine issue that identified the raider as the Ju'day class. Can anyone tell me which issue it was?
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Timo
Member # 245
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Whoa! The raider served in Starfleet in 2374? Can you refer to an episode, a frame and a spot to look at?
(Sorry if this wasn't exactly helpful as far as replies go )
Timo Saloniemi
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Cartman
Member # 256
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Uh... Sacrifice of Angels, for one.
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Dat
Member # 302
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Huh? The Ju'day class was never in Sacrifice of Angels. That was the Peregrine class.
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Aban Rune
Member # 226
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Oh no. This is bad. We're like *this* close to starting a 5 page discussion on the Peregrine/Maquis Raider/Ju'Day/Federation Fighter mess.
Don't do it guys...
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The Mighty Monkey of Mim
Member # 646
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It was the Agust 2001 issue, MinutiaeMan.
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TSN
Member # 31
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"We're like *this* close to starting a 5 page discussion on the Peregrine/Maquis Raider/Ju'Day/Federation Fighter mess." Well, no matter what you call them, there were still two different ship designs.
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Timo
Member # 245
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There. Are. THREE. Designs!
Seriously speaking, *was* the Chakotay-style Maquis ship (or the Ro-style Maquis ship) really seen somewhere in Starfleet colors? Or seen at all after "For the Uniform"?
Timo Saloniemi
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