I found the very white, generic , Anglo, human villain names on Star trek very strange. “Who is the person that’s really going to really get Sisko worked up and furious” “Micheal Eddington” “… was John Smith already used?”
Compare that with Soran or Solok, where there’s some mystique, even Picard brings some extra pizzazz, wheras Micheal Eddington sounds like a background character from Eastenders or downton abbey
EDIT : He’s not even a variant of Michael, like Mickey or Eddington isn’t even something a little bit more plausibly interesting like Eddingstone.
EDIT2 : Being balding (not bald, balding) while in his 30s also didn’t help matters. Like he hasn’t quite picked a side of accepting it and shaving it all off, or having a short trim like Picard, he’s trying to keep what little he has left to cling onto some semblance of youth that is rapidly fading. It worked for Barclay, because he was a neurotic person who had enough mental health issues where , yeah, his way of dealing with male pattern baldness would be to just ignore it.
EDIT 3 : Even Janeway has something. Way is at least an indication of something to do with travel; the Jane part does signal that she’s a woman, which is 🤷 but whatever.
In his defense, Eddington fuckin sucked.
I found the very white, generic , Anglo, human villain names on Star trek very strange. “Who is the person that’s really going to really get Sisko worked up and furious” “Micheal Eddington” “… was John Smith already used?”
Compare that with Soran or Solok, where there’s some mystique, even Picard brings some extra pizzazz, wheras Micheal Eddington sounds like a background character from Eastenders or downton abbey
EDIT : He’s not even a variant of Michael, like Mickey or Eddington isn’t even something a little bit more plausibly interesting like Eddingstone.
EDIT2 : Being balding (not bald, balding) while in his 30s also didn’t help matters. Like he hasn’t quite picked a side of accepting it and shaving it all off, or having a short trim like Picard, he’s trying to keep what little he has left to cling onto some semblance of youth that is rapidly fading. It worked for Barclay, because he was a neurotic person who had enough mental health issues where , yeah, his way of dealing with male pattern baldness would be to just ignore it.
EDIT 3 : Even Janeway has something. Way is at least an indication of something to do with travel; the Jane part does signal that she’s a woman, which is 🤷 but whatever.