I know most Trek fans already know all this information but when you’ve been out of the loop with Trek culture and general culture in real life … it was very surprising for me when I first realized the connection between the real world personality and the on screen Star Trek character. And they did a great job of representing the name and associating them to the work that they do.
And like the real life Stamets and the on screen Stamets, our TenForward Stamets has a habit of working their tendrils of connection deep into this community and making it stronger.
Me being the Discovery fan I am, I started to run through name meanings of the crew and hit something that doesn’t fit for Discovery but does for TNG.
Hugh.
Apparently one of the meanings of the name is “soul”. Given Hugh was the name ‘chosen’ by the drone in I Borg, I think that’s pretty fuckin neat!
One of the biggest Star Trek names that blew my mind when I first read about it was …
Lieutenant Commander Paul Stamets, Astromycologist and Engineer
Named after the real life Paul Edward Stamets, an American mycologist and pioneer in mycology research and science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Stamets
I know most Trek fans already know all this information but when you’ve been out of the loop with Trek culture and general culture in real life … it was very surprising for me when I first realized the connection between the real world personality and the on screen Star Trek character. And they did a great job of representing the name and associating them to the work that they do.
And like the real life Stamets and the on screen Stamets, our TenForward Stamets has a habit of working their tendrils of connection deep into this community and making it stronger.