Talk:Hoshi Sato

A note from a Japanese
Her proper name should be "Hoshi-ko" or "Hoshi-mi" or something similar as mere "Hoshi" sounds clipped and too much like a surname. Check Japanese name for more information.

A personal observation and may not be something that should be here

-- Revth 08:44, 1 Mar 2004
Yes, how she's called in the Japanese-dubbed or subtitled version word be of interest, but changing her name from how she's called on the show would be a factual inaccuracy.

In a related matter, i made a lightly educated guess that her ethnic background is no more identified than was Lt. Uhura's, and that there has thus been now occasion for the liteal meaning of "Hoshi" to be revealed to the audience. If my guess is wrong, someone can come up with better wording, but IMO the article can't mention the meaning without indicating whether that meaning has been made part of the show.
--Jerzy(t) 21:20, 2005 Jan 26 (UTC)

Tone

I tagged the article for cleanup on tone, and another editor removed it with the summary

removed inappropriate cleanup-tone notice which is not applicable

My main concern was the un-'pedic, PR-release (or fan-cruft?) wording

To judge from her name, she was destined to live in space

"Maybe this is fate"? No, she's a fictional character; there's no doubt about the relationship between her name and her bio, which is that she is written as someone the Japanese-savvy viewer should regard as destined. The tone must keep the relationshp with reality crystal clear.

While it did not come from that editor's contribs, tolerance of the language i have now changed proves the need for many eyeballs.

This time around, let the tone tag survive several edits that seem to be in response to it, or a fresh editor who makes tone changes that they consider definitive enough that they remove the tag, or a couple months, before someone who's previously edited the article removes it.
--Jerzy(t) 21:20, 2005 Jan 26 (UTC)

Universal Translator

I have removed this from the article: She invented the universal translator which allows beings from virtually any species to communicate with any other.

From what canon source can this be attributed? She was a young ensign, using the UT throughout the series. You might think that the inventor of the UT could have retired to a tropical island somewhere with all of the royalties of such an extraordinary invention. At the very least, they might have given her a promotion to Lt. Did I miss an epsiode somewhere??? I don't recall any mention of her having invented the very thing that she was using on a day to day basis. func(talk) 18:15, 14 May 2005 (UTC)