Re: Vulcan names
Steven Boozer 
Fri, 09 Oct 1998 09:38:40 -0500

: >Here's a list of the /T'/ names I know of from the episodes and movies=
:
: >
: > T'Lar=A0=A0=A0 high priestess at Mt. Selaya (ST3)
: > T'meni=A0=A0 Tuvok's mother (Hunters)
: > T'meni=A0=A0 Tuvok's granddaughter (Hunters)
: > T'Paal=A0=A0 "Romulan" Tallera's real name (Gambit)
: > T'Para=A0=A0 ancient Vulcan teacher in Raal according to Falor's Jour=
ney
: >=A0=A0             (VOY: episode name not recorded; anyone remember?)
: > T'Pau=A0=A0=A0 elder of Sarek's House, a descendent from Surak (Amok =
Time)
: > T'Pel=A0=A0=A0 Tuvok's wife (Hunters, et al.)
: > T'Pring=A0 Spock's betrothed (Amok Time)
: >
: >Add to this the kohlinahr High Master at Gol, seen talking to acolyte=20
: >Spock in ST:TMP, whose name escapes me.
:=20
: Actually, they don't give it.

I found it in my notes:  T'Sai.  Was this the name given in the script (w=
hich
was never mentioned on screen), or did this name appear in the novelizati=
on
(which I understand Roddenberry approved)?

: There is a Doctor Soral in "The Vulcan Academy Murders" whose name=20
: sounds to an English speaker, just as femanine as Selar, so I don't=20
: think we can act on the way a name "feels" for lack of a better word.
:=20
: Sorik

Maybe so, but I limited my list to *on screen* canon, not original novels=
.=20
Novelizations of movies and episodes, however, are canonically a mixed ba=
g
since they are based on early versions of the script but the novelist
sometimes
adds original details or background information to "flesh out" the
characterizations or explain an actor's reading of a line. =20

Sorik is right: there are many non-T' female names in the pro-novels publ=
ished
over the years.  Do we accept these data in our discussions here or on th=
e
vulcan-linguistics list?


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