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In Roman mythology, the god of fire and metalworking was named Vulcan. It's also a city in Missouri (or Montana, the state code was MO) and in Mississippi. There's also vulcanology (also known as volcanology) which is the study of volcanoes and volcanic stuff.
Considering the nature of the Vulcans in Star Trek, this is a very appropriate connection.
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Lest we not forget the ever-so PC Black Vulcan from TV's SuperFriends.
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MO == Missouri
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Berlinghoff is a German name. Berlinghoff Rasmussen was a human (from Archer's era, no less.. maybe they should find his pod, it returned to the 22nd century empty. Reed might make a time-bomb out of it. That was a pun.)
The producers of Star Trek Voyager must have been shocked, because i remember their press release saying Tuvok would be the first 'Black Vulcan', even though 'Black Vulcan' has been superheroing for two decades. Argh, thats an awful joke.
Kodos is a Rigellian name, as is Kang. But Rigelian is coincidentally, the same language as English, so maybe they are American.
The novels have some tremendously varied human names in them recently, I've been rather enjoying all of the different ways theyve been making their humans more memorable. The new Gateways books have lots of good ethnicities built into them to avoid this whitebread bullsh*t you guys are talking about, and even some good old science fiction tricks of giving characters names that seem out of place but not, like Dr. Jain Suni in "Cloak".. see, take Jane, but spell it Jain. Just like Gim Allon in Legion of Super-Heroes. If theyd called him Jim Allen, that would have been boring. Some good interesting characters from new books like Gage Darres, Bendes Kettaract, Ranjit Srivastava, Elias Vaughn, Zane Bonifay, Savannah Ring. Good stuff
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off-thread, i have read parts 2 and 4 of Gateways so far, 'Chainmail' and 'Demons of Air and Darkness' and I'm just starting 'Doors Into Chaos'.. Is there any story of the Iconian gateway Vaughn found on Alexandra's Planet?, or is that just reference-dropping so far.. seems like it could be important Yeah Vaughn is awesome... I like how in The Section 31 crossover he reveals that 31 was responsible for the holoship and Daugherty's mission in 'Insurrection' A little salvation for an awful movie..
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Has anyone seen the billboards around Los Angeles that feature the entire Enterprise crew with their copper space suits on? I thought that it looked very interesting.
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the last name was from Voyager even.... but 'Bendes' if he werent an egomaniac intent on letting the Federation take over the galaxy, I'd call him 'bendy' for short
I must apologize if that was a spoiler.APOLOGIZING FOR SPOILER of 'Gateways' * * * * i dont know if this spoils more
I'm not sure what you are referring to.. If its the series mentioning the holoship connection, its an extremely minor plot point.
If its about the Elias-Vaughn secret mission, ive finished the books and no-one mentions it at all, it was just a bit of name dropping in the setup sequence unless its coming later.
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