VOY s6e17 “Spirit Folk”
He tried it out but at the end of the episode decided he couldn’t keep using that name after what happened.
He also dropped Shmullus after his dalliance with the Vidiian woman. The Doc can’t catch a break.
The hosts of The Greatest Generation started calling him Doctor Mark after his generation designation (mark 1) during their rewatch of voyager.
Pretty good podcast of y’all are into that kinda thing.
Look at you being all out there about your podcast listening (best boss I ever had).
To be fair with that one he didn’t like it right off the bat, but he liked her so he kinda went along with it.
Hugh Mann, the Dwarf.
Richard Woolsey?
No one should choose their own names, it’s like giving oneself a nickname.
But, we all did that.
Unless you used your birth name as your user name anyway
Choosing an user name is the worst part of making an account anywhere.
It often is, fo sho
Everyone should be able to choose their own names. Because parents can screw up massively in that regard.
Agreed, as I’ve oddly been assigned many throughout my life without intended influence. But what of one who never had a name in the beginning, but rather a simple designation? And the anxiety of thinking they’d accepted the wrong one, what then?
The same way everyone else usually gets their names, someone that cares for them gives them a name. In this case they can get to choose the person, but that’s all.
The process with nicknames are similar but the reasons for the name of choice are completely different.
Then we already know the rightfully given name most used by those closest to him: The Doc.
well Beverly sure was charmed by a spirit.
this episode only made me believe that we’re just running on a holodeck on a derelict ship and someone forgot to turn us off.
