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From: ins_akew@jhunix.UUCP (Montgomery Scott)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Sulu's name
Message-ID: <1758@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 11:29:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 11:29:05 1986
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> >From: jody@inuxd.UUCP (JoLinda Ross)
> >Organization: AT&T Consumer Products, Indianapolis
> >
> >I want to thank everyone who responded to my posting about
> >Sulu's first name.  The results are unanimous.  Sulu'
> >first name is Hikaru by all acounts, however it was suggested
> >that Walter Sulu was used in a novel.  Still Hikaru is the
> >accepted name.
> 
>      even George Takei says sulu's name is Walter Hikaru Sulu
> p.s. Uhura has a first and middle name.  I can never remember which one is
> which, but this is my favorite version: Nyoyta Penda Uhura.
>                                         Chris Wayne @ UNM

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I was at the Baltimore convention in January, and Takei said that
Hikaru is the APPROVED first name...he also said that any trivia dealing
with the characters must first be approved by Roddenberry.  Hikaru has
the needed approval.
    About Uhura's name, Nyoyta, is approved, however, I don't know about the
middle name.  I don't know the spelling of it, but I do know that it means
'freedom.'
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