I loved the joke (presumably a joke anyway, unless her name is actually "Number One") when she gives her name as Number One. But it made me realize, I am a bit disappointed they didn't take the opportunity to flesh out her character a bit more. Anyone else feel the same way, or do you prefer we kept what we know about her to a minimum?
Posted Apr 20, 2019, 3:56 AM UTC
Her name is Una (previously non-canon from tie-in novels, but made canon in Discovery).
Source 1: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Number_One
Source 2: http://trekcore.com/blog/2019/04/interview-star-trek-discovery-season-finale-michelle-paradise/
I completely missed him calling her that? Any idea when in the episode he did? But it does make he saying her name is "Number One" even funnier, as it is technically true.
It’s in one of the scenes where she’s looking at the Torpedo with Cornwell, and Pike contacts her over the comms. It’s quite hard to hear though, to the point I thought he called her “Anna” at first.
The Netflix closed captions called her ‘Noona’. Not sure if this is the true word or just the subtitlers hearing of the word.
Edited to add: I realise the article explicitly called her ‘Una’ so I guess they made a mistake with the closed captions!
Holy crap, just watched the scene again and can't believe I missed it. I guess between it being after work and being tired, and it not being very clear what he was saying exactly, I just brushed it off and didn't realize he was saying her name.
I do still love, now that I know, that her name really IS "number one".
If this "Noona" thing is wrong I still believe Una is another nickname. Una is the female form of unus which means one in latin and some other roman languages as well. Which means he just says Number One in another Language, which fits the dynamic and synergy between these two.
Some semi-canon novels established "Una" as her actual name long before Discovery, and Discovery Producers/writers made it canon in the last episode.
Una's her real name now. Which makes the "Number One" nickname even more fitting for her, and adds a bit of meta-humor to her telling the guy doing her debriefing that her "name and rank" (well, position) IS "Number One".
She’s the number one reason I want a number one enterprise show.
I definitely expected more, especially seeing that they cast Rebecca Romijn.
Not really. They scripted her as a bit of a catoonish "tough broad" from 50's crime movie.
I got more of a smart broad from a 60s sci-fi show vibe.
Not really, I was happy with the amount of screentime she got toward the end. She's definitely another strong argument in favor of an Enterprise series though. I always thought RR was an underappreciated actor.
Problem is, I'm not sure if they'd be able to get her to commit to a full time, multi-season series. But I'd kill to get her, Mount, and Peck to do a pre-Kirk Enterprise series.