Timeline for What is Mr. Data's full name?
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| Sep 18, 2023 at 13:24 | comment | added | gidds | Terminology: aren't all 3-part names ‘first-middle-last’, by definition? AIUI, the issue is not whether the first name comes first and the last name last — they clearly do! — it's whether the first name is a given name and the last name a family name, or vice versa (or some other combination, such as all names being given names). | |
| Oct 9, 2021 at 15:07 | comment | added | Shaun Bebbers | NMI could also mean "Non-Maskable Interrupt" ;-) | |
| Oct 4, 2019 at 23:12 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Flater: "it's about First-Middle-Last being the most common. (...) Just because Earth uses two standards doesn't mean that every Earth system inherently uses both standards at the same time." - Earth doesn't use two standards, it rather uses a dozen or more. With that in mind, it seems like a good idea to not assume the presence of specific name components that only exist in one (or a few) of these standards. | |
| Jul 17, 2019 at 14:06 | comment | added | JohnP | @KeithThompson NMI/NFI is common even in today's military as a designation, as well as on government forms that require full legal names. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:15 | history | rollback | Kyle Jones |
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:14 | comment | added | Kyle Jones | @Valorum Yeah, I screwed that up. Rolled back. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:09 | comment | added | Valorum | I'm not sure why you'd want to remove the direct quote and leave your own commentary. If anything, you'd want it the other way around since if the link dies, your own commentary is of a lower value. | |
| Nov 2, 2018 at 20:06 | history | edited | Kyle Jones | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 15:19 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2018 at 14:32 | history | edited | Z. Cochrane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2017 at 9:40 | comment | added | Flater | @JAB: It's not about whether it occurs on Earth, it's about First-Middle-Last being the most common. Even if not the most common on Earth, it was at least the most common in the cultural region for the developers of the data system. Just because Earth uses two standards doesn't mean that every Earth system inherently uses both standards at the same time. | |
| Aug 22, 2017 at 2:20 | history | edited | Kyle Jones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2017 at 12:02 | comment | added | Robert Columbia | In addition to NFN and NMI, there is a common modern-day initialism "MIO" for "Middle Initial Only". It is used in some official documents for people whose middle names consist only of an initial. This was the case with Harry S. (MIO) Truman". His middle name was not Simon, Simpson, Samuel, or Stephen, it was S. Literally. | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 23:51 | comment | added | Izkata | @JAB Oh, it goes far beyond that here on Earth. Also I regret using "first" and "last" in my earlier comment. | |
| Mar 5, 2017 at 20:12 | comment | added | JAB | @Izkata The irony being that there are cultures here on Earth where FamilyName GivenName is the norm. | |
| Feb 2, 2014 at 0:23 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 1, 2013 at 22:45 | comment | added | Izkata | @SachinShekhar and KyleJones: TNG 5x03, Ensign Ro. The new character, Ro Laren, gets a little peeved when she's called "Ensign Laren" instead of "Ensign Ro", as Bajoran surnames come first - implying that FirstName LastName is most common in the Federation. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 21:36 | comment | added | Kyle Jones | @Sachin The abbreviation are in use in the real world on forms and such. There's not likely to be any canon reference to something this minor. | |
| Feb 22, 2013 at 19:04 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | Is there any canonical backup of that full form? | |
| Feb 17, 2013 at 19:28 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | @mricon: That would explain why we haven't seen time travelers from the 101st century or later; civilization fell due to the Y10K problem. | |
| Feb 17, 2013 at 14:24 | comment | added | mricon | @KeithThompson: I guess the fact that their personnel DB still requires First/Middle/Last means that COBOL will be alive and well in the 24th century. :) | |
| Feb 7, 2013 at 0:10 | vote | accept | Major Stackings | ||
| Feb 6, 2013 at 20:45 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | That notation assumes that FirstName MiddleInitial LastName is the normal pattern for personal names. That's not even valid for 20th- or 21st-century Earth humans; it's far less likely apply to most Starfleet personnel. So it's probably a bit unrealistic -- but it does get the idea across. | |
| S Feb 5, 2013 at 23:13 | history | suggested | Compro01 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2013 at 20:28 | history | answered | Kyle Jones | CC BY-SA 3.0 |