Question about Pike's crew (SPOILER)

[Therin of Andor]

KRAD said:
^ They all do that when they first introduce themselves. Lynch kept doing it

And so did Earl J. Waggerdorn. I assure you!

 

[Timo]

...To be sure, the supposed shooting scripts for "Arsenal of Freedom" and "Skin of Evil" lacked any reference to their respective yellowshirts being Chief Engineers. It seems that a lot was ad-libbed (or fairly inexplicably and illogically rewritten on stage) back in those days.

Indeed, using the full name in the original dialogue of "Skin of Evil" made a world of sense. A voice reports from Engineering, a character we have never seen or heard before. Odds are, this fellow is new to Picard as well. It would only be good manners of the guy to say "Engineering; Lieutenant Commander Leland T. Lynch reporting, Sir!".

...And he would be justified to follow that up with a prideful "Captain, this is LtCmdr Leland T. Lynch: you have minimum warp drive!" after completing the demanding task. But if the guy is the Chief Engineer, both the introductions should be redundant, or else insults towads Picard's mnemonic skills...

(It doesn't help that "Lynch's" delivery is flatter than Elvis' EKG. Attitudes like "polite" or "prideful" would require the capacity to emote.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Timo said:
Indeed, using the full name in the original dialogue of "Skin of Evil" made a world of sense. A voice reports from Engineering, a character we have never seen or heard before. Odds are, this fellow is new to Picard as well. It would only be good manners of the guy to say "Engineering; Lieutenant Commander Leland T. Lynch reporting, Sir!".

It still doesn't ring very true to me. When reporting to a superior officer (or NCO) that I didn't know when I was in the Army I would have just used my rank and last name. In my mind "This is Lt Cmdr Lynch reporting, Sir!" would have made much more sense. Giving his full name would have only made sense if he was reporting for duty for the first time.

 

[Huntingdon]

Unless there was another Lynch on board in engineering.

The T. bit may just be because he was a Kirk-worshipper.

 

[Timo]

^Or then he was famous for the time he spent at the ship's golf course (which is why we never saw him before or after).

Yeah, him being one of the Lynch quintuplets aboard would definitely help explain the use of the full name.

Timo Saloniemi

Edit: There's always the good old cop-out of the guy's full name being "Billy Bob Leland-Ilinzc"...

 

[Christopher]

EliyahuQeoni said:
It still doesn't ring very true to me. When reporting to a superior officer (or NCO) that I didn't know when I was in the Army I would have just used my rank and last name. In my mind "This is Lt Cmdr Lynch reporting, Sir!" would have made much more sense. Giving his full name would have only made sense if he was reporting for duty for the first time.

If he were just an ordinary person, sure. The idea was that it was a pretentious habit of his, that he's so full of himself that he loves to hear his full name spoken. It was supposed to be annoying and off-putting. It's kind of like how Bender on Futurama likes to keep repeating his name: "What does this mean for me, Bender?"

 

[Trent Roman]

Maybe he comes from a human colony world that's developed the custom of using one's full name all the time. Perhaps a small one with a limited gene pool full of Lelands and Lynches.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Aaron McGuire]

Or perhaps he's just an insufferable d-bag.

Aaron McGuire