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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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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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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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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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Arnim Zola is much more famous!
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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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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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"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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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.
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