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Calling all sci-fi and 80's geeks!

123 replies

Nstarr · 21/10/2021 20:35

Help us choose a middle name, that no-one will ever hear because no-one cares about middle names. Ha! Looking for suggestions from pre-2000 sci-fi (nothing too modern) or tv shows or from 80's cartoons. Nobody evil, no such thing as too out there. For a girl.

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Downsize2021 · 21/10/2021 22:42

Kira or Jen although he was a boy. Gelflings in Dark crystal

Synchrony · 21/10/2021 22:41

Zia (Cities of gold)
Juliette / Milady (Dogtanian)
Yumi / Zotra (Ulysses 31)
Romy (Around the world with Willy Fog)

SprayedWithDettol · 21/10/2021 22:34

Jadzia

Theunamedcat · 21/10/2021 22:29

Holly (red dwarf)

I'm loving Ripley though

Pashazade · 21/10/2021 22:27

I was going to add Delenn (Babylon 5)
Think Trillian is cool though 😁

ThatNameAgainItsMrPlow · 21/10/2021 22:27

What about Valeris?

ThatNameAgainItsMrPlow · 21/10/2021 22:23

Barbarella

7ofNine · 21/10/2021 22:23

Astrid is an anagram of TARDIS.
I was coming on to suggest Trillian too Smile
I actually know an Aeryn.
For me it would have to be Leia though (because Drummer and Nagata are too modern!) 💓

Usuallyhappycamper · 21/10/2021 22:21

Came here to say Trillian. Then read and loved Ripley and Susan. How many middle names are you allowed?

Hopeisallineed · 21/10/2021 22:20

Avalon ( also a character from Blake’s 7) and a utopian paradise!

ozzyfroggy · 21/10/2021 22:18

Helga (Hey Arnold)
Wendy (south park)

Missmissmiiiiiiiiisss · 21/10/2021 22:17

I came on to say Deeanna Troy (not sure how it’s spelt)

Missmissmiiiiiiiiisss · 21/10/2021 22:16

@scully29

Or starbuck
Yes!
SamBeckettsLastLeap · 21/10/2021 22:11

Beckett

I love Dayna that pp suggested this is now my fave girls name.

Tia

ElephantandGrasshopper · 21/10/2021 22:08

Lilith (lilith's brood)
Ursula (le Guin)

stairgates · 21/10/2021 22:07

Aphrael

imisscashmere · 21/10/2021 22:04

Ripley!

Petra (Ender’s Game)

Marelle · 21/10/2021 21:42

Rachel (Blade Runner)
Lisa (Apple computer)
Trinity (Matrix)
Buffy (obviously!)
Kara (Supergirl)
Lara (Croft)
Elora (Willow)
Diana (Wonder Woman)
Kira (Dark Crystal)
River (Firefly)
Moonchild (the name Bastian gives to the Childlike Empress in the Never Ending Story)

imnotalpharius · 21/10/2021 21:36

Adora (She Ra)
Allura (Voltron)

GrimDamnFanjo · 21/10/2021 21:35

Delenn

Loubiemoo · 21/10/2021 21:31

@AliceinBorderland

Deanna (troi star trek tng)
That’s what I was going to suggest.
EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 21/10/2021 21:30

Endor (Ewok planet)

iwishiwasafish · 21/10/2021 21:30

Dejah Thoris

She probably stands a decent chance of meeting her John Carter.

rocketfairy · 21/10/2021 21:29

Doris - The Book of the New Sun
Cheela - Dragon's Egg
Tigana - Tigana
Beatrice - The Sirens of Titan
Meina or Moneta - Hyperion

Post-2000:
Lerna or Damaya - The Fifth Season
Rosemary - The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
Avrana - Children of Time

More fantasy than sci fi:
Denna - The Name of the Wind
Sabetha - The Lies of Locke Lamora

Parky04 · 21/10/2021 21:29

@Nstarr

I was liking Servalan then I found this:

She was a cold, calculating, ruthless sociopath who was not above using her sex appeal and charm to get what she wanted.

Lol, not quite who I hope my daughter to be.

She was just misunderstood!
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