Talk:Galaxy Shuttle
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[edit]What is the convention as far as formatting alternate names? On this page, the source of the name, eg: "Italian name" is in italics, and the name itself is in bold. However, on other pages, it's the other way around. eg: King Poseidon, Dinoking, Boater and Blacker, 59.167.66.142 08:23, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Should be italics, then bold. Bold indicates the name of the subject, whereas italics is used for asides like "Voice actor:". —Interrobang 08:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, Christ. A very strong "no" vote from me on merging these two pages. --Riptide (talk) 13:36, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- Wait, is there any controversy about this? Sorry, I didn't think there was or I'd have thrown up the merge template. I mean, I suppose we could have "disambiguation: Orion, the shuttle who looks just like (but may not actually be) Galaxy Shuttle, not to be confused with Orion, the name definitely sometimes used for Galaxy Shuttle's ship mode" but that seems pretty silly to me. Then again, I've been wrong before. --Giggidy (talk) 13:45, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- The Orion was just a ship. It used Galaxy Shuttle's altmode design, but it wasn't alive or a character on its own. It was just one of Dreamwave's many fanwank nods to Japanese Transformers stuff that Dreamwave was fond of throwing at readers at the time. --Sabrblade (talk) 14:05, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- Yeah, I got that, I just thought this line from the last Ask Vector Prime was a retcon to that: "I would especially like to thank the Offworlder, Galaxy Shuttle, for agreeing to be disguised as an Andegean interstellar transport, the Orion." But I don't feel strongly that they need to be together if people take that line and read it a different way. --Giggidy (talk) 14:11, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- It didn't actually occur to me that that could be the case; it just seems like a nod to the fact that the Orion looks like Galaxy Shuttle. This doesn't make them the same thing, at least as I see it. --Riptide (talk) 14:54, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- Yeah, it was just a nod to that. A retcon of Galaxy Shuttle into being the Orion would have mentioned Primax 302.06 Gamma since that's the only continuity that the Orion was in. And since the Dreamwave Orion and Galaxy Shuttle's altmode already looked exactly like each other, Galaxy Shuttle wouldn't have had to have gotten a new altmode like he did in Ask Vector Prime, implying that the Andegean Orion looks different. --Sabrblade (talk) 15:12, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- It didn't actually occur to me that that could be the case; it just seems like a nod to the fact that the Orion looks like Galaxy Shuttle. This doesn't make them the same thing, at least as I see it. --Riptide (talk) 14:54, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- Yeah, I got that, I just thought this line from the last Ask Vector Prime was a retcon to that: "I would especially like to thank the Offworlder, Galaxy Shuttle, for agreeing to be disguised as an Andegean interstellar transport, the Orion." But I don't feel strongly that they need to be together if people take that line and read it a different way. --Giggidy (talk) 14:11, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- The Orion was just a ship. It used Galaxy Shuttle's altmode design, but it wasn't alive or a character on its own. It was just one of Dreamwave's many fanwank nods to Japanese Transformers stuff that Dreamwave was fond of throwing at readers at the time. --Sabrblade (talk) 14:05, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- Wait, is there any controversy about this? Sorry, I didn't think there was or I'd have thrown up the merge template. I mean, I suppose we could have "disambiguation: Orion, the shuttle who looks just like (but may not actually be) Galaxy Shuttle, not to be confused with Orion, the name definitely sometimes used for Galaxy Shuttle's ship mode" but that seems pretty silly to me. Then again, I've been wrong before. --Giggidy (talk) 13:45, 10 November 2015 (EST)
- Oh, Christ. A very strong "no" vote from me on merging these two pages. --Riptide (talk) 13:36, 10 November 2015 (EST)
