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From: timpson@comet2.DEC (IN THE HANDS OF THE FATHER)
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Subject: Re: \"You guys are stupid/Uhuras name
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 09:08:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 09:08:06 1986
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>>
>>	Although perhaps not an 'official' source, the dreadnought
>>class (as well as all the other classes, like the scout and the 
>>cargoship) is described in the Star Trek Technical Manual (check the
>>title, but that's the basic idea.) The Technical Manual does say that
>>the dreadnought class was never built, however. I'm not sure who
>>wrote this book, but I have never seen a dreadnought or heard one
>>mentioned in any episode.
 
>I can't believe you people waste your time discussing the classification
>of spaceships that don't exist!  Can't you people realize that Star Trek 
>was a TV show and the scriptwriters just made up things for the show?
>for g-d's sake you people act as if all of this is real!
> 
>I like Star Trek a lot, but really folks. :-)

It is alot of fun and if you don't like it then stuff it!!!!!!!

                               Steve


 
>In his article, Steve writes:
> The middle name is Upenda which means Freedom and Nyoyta means Star.
>What is your source?  I recently saw ''Is There In Truth No Beuty,''
>and when Spock melds with the Medusan, he says something like,
>''And Uhura, who's name means freedom.''  I seriously doubt that he's
>referring to any other name than Uhura.  
>I have no way of knowing which personal names Roddenberry has given Uhura,
>so I do not argue with the names themselves (though I think Upenda sounds
>like something sailboats do in a squall :-)
 
-- 
I gathered this from the Startrek notesfile:

In Uhura's Song (Pocket books), Uhura's first name is given as Nyota
(that is also where the "translation" of "star" is given for her
first name.


According to Nichelle Nichols in 1976, Uhura's first name is Upenda.
Upenda is Swahili for "Love", and Uhuru translates to "Freedom".
Anyway, sometime after 1980 her first name was changed to Nyota.
I think Vonda McIntyre did it first, and the usage seems to have stuck.


Steve