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One of my boyfriend's big guilty pleasures is "Star Trek." He was talking about it last night and I had a bad name flashback.

One of my exes was in the Navy. I remember him mentioning a few times that one of his fellow privates was named Starship Constellation. His parents were apparently huge "Star Trek" geeks. At the very least, I think his last name was something standard like Jones, and since everyone generally referred to one another by their last name, I guess that was what kept him from going on a killing spree. From what I remember, though, his superiors made fun of his name constantly, calling him Private Jefferson Starship, Private Dipper, Private Spock, etc.

I guess maybe it could have been worse, his last name could have been Dancer.

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There are plenty of more subtle ways of letting the Trekkiness leak into a baby's name... Srsly.

Name you kid Jean or James or Jadzia- but once you name your kid Worf or Spock or Starship Constellation it's time to go to the nuthouse.

Speaking of Worf, I remember my roommate telling me about someone he knows goes by something in Klingon. Not entirely surprising, since he hangs out with a bunch of D&D-playing, convention-going geeks. But mannn...I don't think I love anything in pop culture enough to go that far.

Haha, well, my last name is Wildman so boot is going to be a bitch any way you look at it. My dad made it through okay, though, so maybe I'll get lucky.

Hopefully I can avoid having any Trekkies in my unit. Because Samantha Wildman is actually the name of a character in Star Trek. I probably won't get that lucky, though. A friend and I intend to go through boot together so I'm sure she'll "let it sleep" and I'll have hell to deal with.

Starship Constellation is pretty unfortunate, I must say. Though, "Star" isn't so bad a nickname to fall back on.

Also, if it was the navy it wouldn't have been private. It would have been Seaman Spock and Seaman Dipper. Which, that last one there, is pretty freakin' unfortunate for him.

Yeah, it was a long time ago, I'm not surprised I forgot a detail. But that makes me sad, because it negates the Tina Turner reference at the end.

I somehow missed the rest of your message when I read it from my inbox. Good luck in boot camp! Just curious, were you named that intentionally (er, you know, in regard to the show), are your parents fans, as well?

i bet he joined the forces so he could be called by his last name.

Hahahah. Note home to parents from bootcamp: "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! I HATE YOU BOTH!"

Wow... and I thought it was bad that my Trekker hubby wanted to give our second child the middle name Tiberius(James Tiberius Kirk) if it was a boy. He also wanted to name it Mariborne if it was a girl(a character from and episode of "The Next Generation".

I wouldn't have recognized Mariborne, but that actually strikes me as a really interesting name. Just curious, what middle name did you end up talking him down to?

Private Dipper makes me laugh so hard!

My brother used to watch Star Trek from time to time and I'd watch it with him sometimes. I really liked B'Lana for a girl back then.

Is that bee-lana or more like buh-lana? I don't remember that one. My dad was the big Trekkie in our household and I remember playing with my Barbies in the living room while he watched, but all I ever really noticed from the show was, hey, look, the guy from Stand by Me!

It's "B'Elanna" and it's pronounced kind of like "beh-LAH-na" :)

If I had to pick an "out there" Star Trek name I suppose I could use Jadzia. Or Nerys, but that's a real name and I'm not sure it's pronounced the same as in Star Trek...

Buh-lana.
A quick trip to imdb told me it was from Star Trek: Voyager and her name is actually spelled B'Elanna.

I send that poor man my deepest condolences

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