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Hm, where's John Ladasky when we need him? :)
In lugnet.year.2001, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.announce, Jon Furman writes:
> > Has anyone else noticed the distinct name sharing going on between life on
> > Mars and battlestar galactica, the most horrilbe, yet strangely
> > entertaining, space saga known to man?
> > The air tube hangar comes with minifigs named Riegel, and Cassiopeia.
> > While the excavation searcher has a character named Vega. I
> > hope that Starbuck, apollo and Adama are not next!
>
> Nah, They're drawing from two different sources. Life on Mars is naming
> characters after stars & constellations; BG used names from classic Greek &
> Roman mythology(1). There's just a lot of cross-over, that's all.
>
> 1:When not naming them weird things, like Starbuck or Boomer or Boxy.
Where do you think the stars got their names? :) Well, most
of them, anyways; Rigel (not "Riegel" or whatever they transliter-
ated) is, I think, Arabic in origin as many stellar names are.
There's a lot of overlap. I do, however, think it's cute that
you get Castor and Pollux together in a set. ;) [2]
BG also used names and ideas from Judaeo-Christian theology;
that whole "13th Tribe" and "12 Colonies" thing was Hebrew. And,
of course, Lorne Greene couldn't be "Adama"--the Universal Father--
without it! And...there was a lot of Ancient Egypt in the imagery.
I think the idea was that they'd take everything from the Ancient
World, toss it in a cauldron, and borrow liberally to give the whole
some feeling of historical veracity. However, that still doesn't
explain where the Cylons fit in...
That said, I think it's very icky to have aliens named after stars,
especially the Terran names for those stars. I would much have
preferred names like "Chuck" to names like "Antares." (Mega Bloks
Planetoids, anyone? Not that "Zzyax" was much better in terms of
being stereotypical alienese.) I always felt that "Alien Nation"
did an excellent job with the problem of alien names, accounting
believeably for tweakish human nature.
Just my two pfennig,
Lindsay
[2] Castor and Pollux being "the twins", IIRC a naked-eye double
star.
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| (...) Oh, of course... absolutely. I'd love to see names that were completely invented words with no 'earthling' equivlant.. However the naming scheme they chose could be interpreted in two acceptible ways that I see: 1) They're named after those (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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| (...) Actually, there are some other ways to name individuals from other planets. If I remember correctly, in one of the Stainless Steel Rat novels, our hero was sent to a planet called "Burada" (means "here" in Turkish). All the names here (such (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Nah, They're drawing from two different sources. Life on Mars is naming characters after stars & constellations; BG used names from classic Greek & Roman mythology(1). There's just a lot of cross-over, that's all. James 1:When not naming them (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.space)
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