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Canopyflyer

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As a parent myself, might I suggest using that as her middle name.

When we named our two boys, we chose classic yet timeless names for their first, but did have some fun with their middle names. (and NO, they are not named “Ben” and “Will”. My god, I actually know 6 families that have two boys with those names). That way, we got to name them something fun, but they had good classical first names they could go by through out their lives. Our boys were born during the height of what I call the “din” period. Where a lot of babies have names that ended with some derivation of “din”, “dyn”, “den” or something along those lines.

There is a very good reason why there is an entire subreddit on that other site called “/r/tragideigh”.

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To me, this is one of the most fully realized female characters in science fiction (at least):

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That’s awesome.

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You mean when it becamse “Fargate” or “Starscape”?

I really liked Ben Browder and Claudia Black in Stargate, however it was really jarring and took a while to get used to.

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LOL… I don’t think I’ve seen that scene…aaaannnd not sure I want to.

Thank you for the update though.

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You have to watch a LOT more than that!

Some other references:

2001 A Space Odyssey

Looney Tunes (An entire episode was dedicated to the Coyote and Road Runner). That show had numerous other references too, including an appearance of the Enterprise itself.

Dr Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb. (Dear John and Hi There for instance)

Dark Crystal

Dracula

Star Wars

There are many many more. The entire show was one big reference to something else.

One of the more esoteric Star Trek references was the aliens urinating. In Star Trek, no one pees. The only time any time of shower/rest room is shown in the entire franchise is in ST:TMP when the Ilia drone appears on the Enterprise. There might be a scene in ST:TOS where Kirk comes out of a door with wet hair and a towel around his shoulders, but that’s it.

About the only franchise/movie that I cannot think of a reference in Farscape is Stargate.

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My kids made a better choice:

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An IT company I worked for many years ago went through a massive growing phase. One of the things that lead to this growth was the hiring of much more competent management, particularly in security and the data center.

Security actually started doing their jobs and started routinely doing network scans. They discovered two servers that were not located in the data center, which was a huge no no. The servers were running two porn websites off the company’s internet connection. The guy had been doing it for years and apparently was making many times his company salary from them.

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Agreed, not sure why everyone focuses on the game controller, when the hull was never certified in the first place. The viewport was only certified to 1000 meters, or something like that. The controller was the least of the issues.

The whole, we don’t need to follow safety regulations because submersibles don’t implode, mentality is utterly bizarre. It’s like the people of Oceangate had no concept of causation and correlation. Or that CEO just had a suicide wish.

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All of these movies my family sits down and watches at least once a year:

Harry Potter series… All of them.

LoTR/ Hobbit… All of them.

Paul

Strictly Ballroom

Princess Bride

Music Man 1962 version

Court Jester 1955 with Danny Kaye

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