I don’t think there is a relation to these two, but they do have some similar characteristics (wanting to create better/perfected beings, though in very different ways), on top of their similar names.

Any deep lore/canon that link this two?

  • @jawa21
    3•4 months ago

    After looking for a while I couldn’t find anything significant. My guess is that it might just be a subtle throwback that the writers made in order to make us winder this very thing.

    • NegativeNullOPM
      2•4 months ago

      I did read this on Reddit (don’t worry, I took a shower afterwards):

      The real reason is the charming one- namely that Gene Roddenberry had a friend (a radioman, as I recall) during WWII named Kim Noonien Wanh. Gene lost contact with his friend and apparently had some hope that tossing the name in there would draw the ear to a television and maybe he’d find him again.

      It was Korea, not WW2, but the rest is kind of sweet.