From: tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Robert Oliver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Biko & Vico
Date: 20 Nov 92 05:07:57 GMT
Reply-To: ailanth!tallman@wang.com (Robert Oliver)
Organization: Ailanthus Project

Does anyone know the name of the supply ship in Fistfull of Data's.  It 
sounded like the 'Vigo'.  Wasn't that the name of the ship that was 
destroyed in Hero Worship?  Someone please help me.  I'm SOOOOOOOO 
confused.>>Yah, I caught that too.  The supply ship seemed to be the same 
one which>was destroyed in "Hero Worship" in the Very Dark Ominous 
Uncharted Cluster>(tm).  The (Vigo, Biko, whatever) must have either been 
refitted, replaced,>or someone at ST:TNG Continuity is getting a stern 
spanking right now. 
 
The closed captions in "Fistful of Datas" list the supply shipas the 
"Biko".  Mike Brown's guide lists the ship in Hero Worsip as "the science 
vessel S S Vico".Continuity's backsides are safe for the moment :-)
 
***** Here is the information I have. On the pronunciation of Biko, the 
following is an excerpt from Donald Woods' excellent book "Biko": 
     "The name "Biko" is a rough approximation. To be absolutely exact, 
in terms of perfect Xhosa pronunciation, the B is not pronounced "hard." 
It is a soft B, the sort of noise a pipe smoker makes when puffing, 
drawing in air, to light his pipe. And the emphasis is on the first 
syllable. But Steve usually pronounced his name as simply as BEE-kaw, 
with a hard B, to make it easier for non-Xhosas to pronounce. I told him 
once that he was consistently mispronouncing his own name as a political 
expedient, whereupon the next few phone calls from him started with an 
exaggerated implosion of the B and an elaborate drawing out of the first 
syllable. If the puffing sound is written as "Bh," what he said on the 
phone was "BHEEEE-kaw speaking!"
   This ends our Xhosa language class for today. Most non-Xhosa 
(including Peter Gabriel) simply call him BEE-co (rhymes with VEE-co).
 
USS BIKO
CLASS: Oberth
TYPE: Supply Ship
CAPTAIN: Unavailable
DISPOSITION: Operational as of 2369
NAMESAKE: "[Bantu] Stephen Biko (1946-1977) South African black activist, 
born in King William"s Town, who was the founder and the leader of the 
Black Consciousness Movement. He became involved in politics while 
studying medicine at Natal University and was the president of the 
all-Black South African Students Organization (1969), and honorary 
president of the Black Peoples Convention (1972). In 1973 he was served 
with a banning order severly restricting his movements and freedom of 
speech and association. He was detained four times in the last few years 
of his life, and died in police custody, allegedly [sic] as a result of 
beatings received. He was the subject of a sucessful film, Cry Freedom 
(1987), directed by Richard Attenborough." - The Cambridge Encyclopedia.  
Steve Biko was detained by the South African Security Police for the last 
time on September 6, 1977. He was interrogated and beaten for twenty two 
hours and died on September 12 due to severe brain trauma - RO.
APPEARANCE: "A Fistful of Datas"
 
USS VICO
CLASS: Oberth
TYPE: Research/Science
CAPTAIN: Unavailable
DISPOSITION: Destroyed in 2368
NAMESAKE: "Giovanni Battista Vico (1668-1744), Italian historian and 
philosopher. Although he attended Jesuit school and the University of 
Naples, he educated himself in the library of a family that he tutored. 
He was appointed royal historiographer for the new Kingdom of Naples 
(1753). New Science (1725, 1730, 1744), his monumental work, included the 
idea that history had three stages; the age of the gods, the age of 
heroes, and the age of men. His ideas still exercise great influence on 
modern historians." -- The Random House Encyclopedia.
APPEARANCE: "Hero Worship"

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Robert Oliver, tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com
via Ailanthus Project +1 207-989-6562 - Brewer, Maine.
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