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From: ins_bbdg@jhunix.UUCP (James T. Kirk)
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Subject: Re: \"You guys are stupid/Uhuras name
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 20:48:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 20:48:07 1986
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Steve writes:
> 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.

The only authority on *official* Star Trek names is Gene Roddenberry.  No
private novel author decides who gets which name, even if the name is
a commonly used one.

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