Okay sorry to respond to myself but I'm looking at it again and seeing a different angle. Andy outright says that his version is the one in the credits, which pretty much solidifies it as canon. He's asking if 7 of 9 is... acceptable? Synonymous?
I haven't seen all of Voyager but there's at least Trek precedent that points to an answer: Data points out his own name is pronounced "Dayta," not "Dah-ta," is asked what the difference is, and says "One is my name. The other is not." Differentiating his name from the word "data."
On the one hand it feels weird to waste tweet space explaining the RL context instead of asking something like "How does Seven feel about her name? Is it a Dayta/Dahta situation, or is 7 of 9 acceptable?" That would be a more tempting conversation starter for me if I was Seven's actor, especially because her character was supposed to be "the Data" (the Spock, the Odo, etc) of Voyager.
On the other hand the "friend" (real or not) might have felt like a necessary excuse to throw out there for any of us who happened to see the tweet.
On the third hand, I think I'm over-analyzing things. Was it TeaBlogger or someone else who suggested that Andy is overly wordy on purpose to confuse people? Seems to be working on me lol.
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-22 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)Okay sorry to respond to myself but I'm looking at it again and seeing a different angle. Andy outright says that his version is the one in the credits, which pretty much solidifies it as canon. He's asking if 7 of 9 is... acceptable? Synonymous?
I haven't seen all of Voyager but there's at least Trek precedent that points to an answer: Data points out his own name is pronounced "Dayta," not "Dah-ta," is asked what the difference is, and says "One is my name. The other is not." Differentiating his name from the word "data."
On the one hand it feels weird to waste tweet space explaining the RL context instead of asking something like "How does Seven feel about her name? Is it a Dayta/Dahta situation, or is 7 of 9 acceptable?" That would be a more tempting conversation starter for me if I was Seven's actor, especially because her character was supposed to be "the Data" (the Spock, the Odo, etc) of Voyager.
On the other hand the "friend" (real or not) might have felt like a necessary excuse to throw out there for any of us who happened to see the tweet.
On the third hand, I think I'm over-analyzing things. Was it TeaBlogger or someone else who suggested that Andy is overly wordy on purpose to confuse people? Seems to be working on me lol.