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Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :

Was it mentioned in TVH?

There's one scene (DVD Time index 0:25:10) where Kirk says "Let's hear the probe's transmission". He says one word before this which sounds vaguely like "Nyota".

Can anyone confirm this?

Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :

He says, "Can you let us hear the probe's transmission?" Turn on the subtitles. [Smile]

Seriously, though, with them on it's quite obvious. I listened to it first without them, and I heard "Nyota." I only read along as he spoke one time and now I can't hear "Nyota" anymore. What I find more amusing is that the Probe's signal is subtitled, "Screeee!"

Incidentally, the name Nyota was chosen for Uhura by William Rostler in his long-forgotten book, Star Trek II Biographies. In an article reprinted in The Best of Trek #13, Rostler relates how he got both Gene Roddenberry's and Nichelle Nichols's respective approvals for the name. That's good enough for me, even if it never got on screen.

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

I'm not volunteering to sit through that film again [Big Grin]

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Curious.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I still don't understand why everyone is so adamant that Uhura has to have more than one name...

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

People with only one name are fundamentally evil.

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

Especially if they are magicians.

Posted by Springfield Armory Snay (Member # 411) on :

Or live in Washington State.

Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :

I don't think anyone is "adamant" that she have more than one name... but very few people have one name now, and there's no precedent for one-named humans being common in the future. She is African (specifically Bantu), and they normally have two names like 99% of the rest of people on Earth. So it's logical that Uhura would have a first name, even if not a strict requirement.

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

I HAVE THREE NAMES!

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Who says she's Bantu? And I'm sure there are groups in Africa (among other places) that haven't adopted the tradition of the surname...

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

She speaks Swahili. How many names do the majority of people who speak Swahili have?

I have three names and a roman numeral.

Posted by Ryan McReynolds (Member # 28) on :

quote:
Originally posted by TSN:
Who says she's Bantu?

In The Making of Star Trek, it says, "Communications Officer Uhura is an African, a citizen of the Bantu Nation of United Africa." Sticking with canon, though, her native tongue is Swahili, the most widely spoken Bantu language and the lingua franca of the African east coast. The most parsimonious assumption is that Uhura is therefore Bantu.

Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds:
What I find more amusing is that the Probe's signal is subtitled, "Screeee!"

I'm disappointed that the subtitle wasn't "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" [Wink]

Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

quote:
Originally posted by First of Two:

I have three names and a roman numeral.

I have been more surprised at discovering I have hands that at this fact.

Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :

Has anyone checked the script of TVH?

-MMoM [Big Grin]

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

The text file I have that's supposed to be the shooting script doesn't have that line.