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[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

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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[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

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.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

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!

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

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...

[sloane-hd.livejournal.com]

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