Getting to Know Each Other = July Edition

[Chaoswolf]

11 hours ago, TGP said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

I have no particular opinion one way or the other.

[Jokemeister]

1 hour ago, Chaoswolf said:

I have no particular opinion one way or the other.

 

Basically, what he said.

 

From my point of view, just tell me what your name is and how to spell it and I'll happily comply with whatever that is.  With that said, if you ever try to get aggressive about it, I'm cutting you out of my life.  Ain't nobody got time for that!

[TGP]

19 hours ago, Sergeant_Crunch said:

...Ultron was right.

Was Ultron a coined name? Sounds like one, but I am too pop-culturally challenged to know it's origin. 

 

Sheldor was derived by chopping off the back leg of the "n" from:

 

Sheldon

 

...it was a fictional World Of Warsmiting character, belonging to a fictional character (Dr. Cooper) from a TV show. Presumably, we have the writers to thank for that one. 

 

Eldrick is the actual name of a well known real life celebrity; it was coined by the parents and has the virtue of beginning with E and ending with K; matching the parent's initials which were E & K.

 

James and Tiberius are ancient names but are associated with a fictional character played by an actor named William (also an ancient name). Here is a hint:

...for both the character and the weekender questions. 

 

 

[Sergeant_Crunch]

15 minutes ago, TGP said:

Was Ultron a coined name? Sounds like one, but I am too pop-culturally challenged to know it's origin. 

 

Sheldor was derived by chopping off the back leg of the "n" from:

 

Sheldon

 

...it was a fictional World Of Warsmiting character, belonging to a fictional character (Dr. Cooper) from a TV show. Presumably, we have the writers to thank for that one. 

 

Eldrick is the actual name of a well known real life celebrity; it was coined by the parents and has the virtue of beginning with E and ending with K; matching the parent's initials which were E & K.

 

James and Tiberius are ancient names but are associated with a fictional character played by an actor named William (also an ancient name). Here is a hint:

...for both the character and the weekender questions. 

 

 

Ultron is a robot comic book, turned movie, character.  In the movie it was created to save humanity, it decided the only way to do that was to destroy all humans. (That's the abbreviated version).

[etherial]

17 hours ago, Xiwo Xerase said:

Admittedly, "Xiwo Xerase" falls down on the second part because it's not obvious how to pronounce a leading 'X' in the English language.  (For the record, I pronounce it like 'ch'.  The full pronunciation is something like "CHEE-woh CHE-rah-say.")

I always assumed they were clicks.

[Dr.Bedlam]

23 hours ago, VitM said:

 

I tend to get more annoyed at stupid fantasy names, or trendy common names, than coined names.  Despite my gut reaction to the "popular" names, there's no point in being an elf-hole to someone about their given name; they had nothing to do with selecting it.  

 

I have a friend named Dyamond (pronounced Diamond) and she's told me that she never got crap about her name from other kids growing up, only from "adults" that insisted on correcting her or pronouncing it the way they thought was appropriate to how it's spelled.  

 

I dated a girl name of Galadriel once, but I'm pretty sure that wasn't her real name. Her sister's name was Agnes.

 

23 hours ago, klarg1 said:

Notably, we have a "Michal" right on this very board, and also teaching at ReaperCon.

 

 

No disrespect is intended for anyone named Michal; I used that as a pseudonym, since the kid's actual name was spelled rather distinctively, and I could get in trouble for violating his confidentiality on a public board. Even though he has since changed his name to its traditional spelling. I am also not exaggerating his mother's poisonous nature. Principal had her arrested at least once for storming into the building and letting fly at someone.

4 hours ago, TGP said:

Was Ultron a coined name? Sounds like one, but I am too pop-culturally challenged to know it's origin. 

 

 

ULTRON, far as I know, was a Marvel Comics character, an artificial intelligence created by Henry Pym, the first Ant-Man. It went rogue, escaped, built itself a robot body, and went all "Destroy All Humans" on the Avengers. Since Henry Pym wasn't Ant-Man in the Ant-Man movie, they just shifted the programming and construction duties over to Tony Stark, and jazzed up the origin story a tad. 

[TGP]

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

[klarg1]

42 minutes ago, TGP said:

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

 

Hoo boy.

 

Mirror Mirror Harcort Fenton Mudd (sp?) would almost have to be a useless, mid-level bureaucrat, or something, right? (Regular 'verse Mudd would probably have been executed the very first time he interacted with the authorities.) I mean, I suppose he could be a high-level administrator, since he's kind of a nobody in the "standard" Universe, but I'm not sure I see it.

 

I do have a clue what the mirror Universe is, but I do not remember many of the details. It has been a lot of years since I have seen any part of it.

 

Essay question: um.... I'll think on it. No promises.

Edited July 21, 2017 by klarg1

[Glitterwolf]

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

 

I stand with @Chaoswolf on this one.

 

 

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

 

No and therefore No again.

[Auberon]

2 hours ago, TGP said:

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

 

I have seen ToS episodes with Mudd and the mirror universe, but have no real memory of them.  Certainly not enough to enjoy speculating or writing essays on a weekend.

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

2 hours ago, TGP said:

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

As I have not seen the episode where Mudd goesto the mirror universe, I can not say what may have happened. I do know what the mirror universe is, however.

[Sergeant_Crunch]

3 hours ago, TGP said:

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

Since mirror universe would be a decent person, he probably was murdered by his business associate who wanted to get ahead.

Yes, I do.

Janeway as an Orion slave trader.

[Grayfax]

58 minutes ago, Xherman1964 said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

 

I stand with @Chaoswolf on this one.

 

 

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

 

No and therefore No again.

I stand with WOOF on this.

[NebulousMissy]

 

2 hours ago, TGP said:

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

 

Harry Mudd was a made to look like a low level conman but the schemes he came up with, using Mudd's Women as an example of a 'standard' scheme of his, were complex and impressive. He routinely steals ships, acquires accomplices, uses lures and drugs and props considered 'only a rumor', and makes off with fat stacks of dilithium loot. Or he would have if not for Kirk and his meddling Spock. He should not be dismissed as a low level thug, especially not in the Mirror Universe where a black market would thrive underneath the totalitarian veneer of backstabbing, savagery, agony, and iron-fisted occupations.

 

He would be a dealer in slow poisons, in mis-wired agonizers, in murder machines like the one Mirror-Kirk has in his bedroom (or his consort's bedroom, I don't remember who owned it). He would get away with it not because he's never caught but because he's too valuable to those in power to stay caught.

 

I believe that also answers the second question

 

As for the third one...

 

When the Mirror Universe is seen again in the 24th century they explain the complete chaos in a few lines. Apparently when Mirror-Spock mind melded with Normal-McCoy, Spock picked up all these fantastical ideals of 'kindness' and 'peace' and 'respect' and none of them matched up with that universe's Hilariously Evil alignment. Spock began a campaign to spread these ideas and the Mirror-Federation began to change. In a universe where it turned out they were Evil for a reason.

 

Now a hundred years later the Mirror-Federation has been ripped apart by stronger, eviller enemies from the inside and out. Those ideas of peace and respect and justice meant nothing in a universe where power was taken by force and held by blood.

 

An idea for a short series would be this:

 

What happened during that change? Consider the social unrest and upheaval that must have culminated in secession and civil war as the Mirror-Federation fractured under the weight of its own kindness. What would that have been like? And were there any who kept those ideas alive into the 24th century? How do they fight back?

 

Star Trek already showed us through that funky 3rd season episode with Lava Monster Lincoln (not even kidding) that Good and Evil fight with the same weapons but for different causes. Therefore a rebellion inside the Mirror-Federation would be able to fight back, would take prisoners and convert them to the rebellion using foreign concepts like 'dignity' and 'respect'. But what about spies? Assassinations? Does Spock get himself martyred and become the modern Surak? Am I thinking way too much about this?

[Chaoswolf]

49 minutes ago, Grayfax said:

 

1 hour ago, Xherman1964 said:

Question for July 20: Do you like coined names?

 

I stand with @Chaoswolf on this one.

 

 

Weekend Questioning for July 21st & onward) What do you think Harry Mudd's fate was in the mirror universe? (Enjoy speculating...)

 

22nd) Do you have a clue what the mirror universe is?

 

23rd) Essay question: come up with a pitch for either a movie or an episodic series centered and based in the mirror universe.

 

No and therefore No again.

I stand with WOOF on this.

 

We are unanimous.