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Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Novel authority
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 16:33:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 16:33:12 1986
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Reply-To: pmm1920@ritcv.UUCP (Paul Meyerhofer)
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In article <1931@jhunix.UUCP> ins_bbdg@jhunix.UUCP (James T. Kirk) writes:
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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.
>
   Just giving my own thoughts on the matter...
I thought that the Timescape novels were "authorized" by someone important.
In this way, inconsistencies (sp) are kept out.
On the other hand, I may be wrong.

					Paul Meyerhofer