Turtlenecks

[Tim Thomason]

I've heard the name Odo, mainly in the form of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, the brother of William the Conqueror, and my familiarity with DS9 always shaped the way I view Bishop Odo. But, seeing as it is an archaic form of Otto, it's probably pronounced differently (more like "odd-Oh") than the DS9 character.

 

[Orphalesion]

But, seeing as it is an archaic form of Otto, it's probably pronounced differently (more like "odd-Oh") than the DS9 character.

Yes most likely it is. And the differing pronunciation helps accepting it as an Alien name on DS9.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Saran

I have trouble wrapping my head around that one.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

I have trouble wrapping my head around that one.

It's clear to me....

 

[Nerys Myk]

It’s a stretch.

 

[NCC-73515]

I just read that originally Odo was to be called "Otto" a name related to Odo.

Udo is another version that is still used, but kinda rare.

 

[F. King Daniel]

There’s a thread called I want to see those damn turtleneck sweater uniforms from The Cage & WNMHGB! in the Discovery forum which is probably too old to resurrect. And that ship has sailed, per se. But surely a Pike series would dare to take more inspiration from the iconic The Cage. Anyone else want to see aesthetic borrowings from The Cage (and WNMHGB? and Forbidden Planet??) in SNW?

To be honest, I associate those old costumes and sets with fan films these days. I'd LOVE an authentic 1960's Short Trek with the new actors on classic sets and in the original costumes, but I'm cool with the quasi-rebooted 23rd century they've given us. No need to go back.

 

[fireproof78]

To be honest, I associate those old costumes and sets with fan films these days. I'd LOVE an authentic 1960's Short Trek with the new actors on classic sets and in the original costumes, but I'm cool with the quasi-rebooted 23rd century they've given us. No need to go back.

Here's my thing-if we saw the original styles I would still want to see some variety taken with them, from hats, to jackets, to other variants. While I appreciate fan efforts, the ones that stand out to me the most is when they feel the freedom to actually play with the setting and not strict reconstructionist.

 

[Falconer]

Here's my thing-if we saw the original styles I would still want to see some variety taken with them, from hats, to jackets, to other variants.

Definitely; they only did two episodes with that style; it would be fun to see where they could take it if they used it as a starting point.

 

[Jedman67]

Personally, I'd like to see them take the Discoprise uniforms and "relax" them a smidge. What Bob Blackman did to the TNG uniforms originally designed by Theiss. Speaking of which is he still in the business?

 

[TommyR01D]

True, but it doesn't really matter one bit where the writers got the name from, as long as it sounds alien to most of their primary audience. That's what's important.
And Ezri or Jadzia definitely sound more "alien" to most viewers than "Sarah", which is an incredibly common name in the vast majority of Western cultures.

And with the large number of names in human languages I wouldn't completely disregard the posibility put some coincidences
I would not say that in every instance. With Odo for example, I find it very possible that whoever created it had never heard of the extremely obscure, very dated German name, but rather just strung two vowels and a consonant together and thought it was an original creation. I'm originally from Germany and until this conversation I had never even heard of "Odo" being used as a real world name, because it hasn't been a common name for centuries by what I could find out via Google.


Yeah I assume that's the reason he's named Linus.
And yes I agree the "Sarah" is pretty annoying and that Sera, Zera, Cera, Carah or any such variation owuld have helped.
Or if they had added an additional sound to create something like: Saral. Saran, Saram etc.

With so many different languages and so many words in each, it's not unsurprising that you sometimes see coincidental repetitions - indeed, sometimes they even have the same meaning.

Recently I was looking through the Quenya names that Tolkien gave to the Istari: Olórin (Gandalf) is also the Yoruba word for musician, while Curumo (Saruman) appears to be a town in Venezuela.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Honestly, given the fact that spoken Bajoran sounds so analogous to a human language and Bajorans themselves seem very similar biologically to humans, I am surprised that the bajoran words for parents aren't 'mama' and 'dada/papa'. On Earth, in reality, most languages have similar mama/dada variations for parents, simply because most babies make those sounds first and nearly all cultures have assimilated those sounds into names.

 

[publiusr]

Ideally yes, but that's never going to happen.

The look worked for Sagan

 

[Orphalesion]

I'm glad they made the blue darker in the DISCO version of the Enterprise uniforms. That washed out baby blue in TOS was awful.
I just wish they made the Command/Security uniforms a bit darker/golden too. The yellow actually looks brighter than the TOS version to me which is just...why?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_(late_2360s-early_2370s)

The Voyager Turtle Neck is nice.

Same with Steve Job's Black Turtle Neck collars.

In my Head Canon for my StarFleet Uniforms, the neck portion is covered with a nice Black Turtle Neck for the inner T-Shirt with the Outter Unfirom Jacket Neck Collar wrapping around the outside of the Black Turtle Neck.