Sci-Fi Baby Names Continued
Christy
Thursday
5:34 pm
So, the book came. Yay! I’m giving it to my sister tomorrow. I can hardly contain myself, especially because I told her that I had a present for her and that it is baby related. Haha! While flipping through the book I found some of our fellow Geek6ers’ names listed. Here they are:
1. CHRISTINE (that’s me)
ORIGIN: 23rd-century Earth
SOURCE: Star Trek (TV series, 1966-1969)
This variant form of “Christine” (from the Greek for “anointed”) pays homage to Nurse Christine Chapel of the starship Enterprise. Leonard McCoy’s efficient assistant leaves a promising career in biomedical research in order to serve aboard the Starfleet flagship. She also has a vibrant romantic life, including a past liaison the brilliant scientist Dr. Roger Korby and an unrequited passion for the brooding half-Vulcan science officer, Spock.
QUOTE: “I’m in love with you, Mr. Spock.”
VARIANTS: Chris, Christie, Christina
2. ELISABETH (my middle name, and yes my world does revolve around me)
ORIGIN: 20th-century Earth
SOURCE: New Mutants Annual #2 (Marvel Comics, 1986)
Little used variant form of Elizabeth used by Elisabeth Braddock, an English-born mutant with telekinetic and precognitive abilities who joins the X-Men as Psylocke.
TRIVIA: Elisabeth Braddock is the twin sister of Brian Braddock, aka Captain Britain.
3. JOSHUA
ORIGIN: 20th-century Earth
SOURCE: WarGames (1983)
This popular boy’s name (Hebrew for “God is salvation”) honors the nickname of WOPR, the military supercomputer that nearly launches global thermonuclear war in the 1983 technothriller WarGames
QUOTE: “Shall we play a game?” – So fitting, I believe that Josh has used that before!
4. JASON
ORIGIN: 20the-century Earth
SOURCE: Frogs (1972)
Want your child to have good ecological karma? Then steer clear of this Greek variation on Joshua, which became wildly popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but in the 1972 films Frogs is the name of an elderly family patriarch with a pathological hatred of animals. A dyspeptic, wheelchair-bound industrial tycoon, Jason Crockett is horrified to find his country estate set upon by malevolent croaking frogs, apparently mutated by pesticides he has been using.
QUOTE: “I still believe man is the master of the universe.”
5. JOE
ORIGIN: 20th-century Earth
SOURCE: Empire of the Ants (1977)
Short form of the popular Biblical name Joseph, used by Joe Morrison, a dim-witted rube who encounters giant mutated carnivorous ants in 1977’s Empire of the Ants.
QUOTE: “This has turned out to be one hell of a free vacation.”
Amber
Jason
Nick Burns
Christy
Charlotte
Autumn
Bill
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Reader Comments
Awesome! Perhaps the robots will have pity on me when they enslave us all!
During my night job, I use the name He-Man.
Sounds more interesting than mine. During my night job, I’m Gladys.
Honestly: Who hasn’t used the quote, “Shall we play a game” many, many, many, many times before? If you don’t, you weren’t old enough to have lived through the sensation that was “War Games.”
The other one is “How about a nice game of chess?” I still hear or use both of those regularly.
I used to have a speech synthesizer for my Commodore 64. Having it say, “Would. You. Like. To. Play. A. Game?” was one of my favorite phrases.
I have never, ever so badly wanted to know the origin of my name from any book as I do this one. Please tell me I have a place in the world of geek-dom!!!
Sadly Kirsten, your name was not in the book. I tried to google your SciFi name and came up empty.
Hey, hey hey guys, did you know? Guess what! My name means I was born in the fall!
yeah..that’s it.
Somebody should give you a refund, Autumn.
Yeah, well, my name is something insects get stuck on in trees, so….