Comments on: Tahir Talks Captain Robau

By: Tariq Juneja

Tariq Juneja — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:41:13 +0000

Star Trek has always been so inclusive and I love that about the original series – and man alive my son and I whooped when we saw the Captain was Indian/Asian/Eastern whatever! It was an amazing touch to an absolutely thrilling movie. Good job!

By: Omar Robau

Omar Robau — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:49:40 +0000

I finally found out this information from Robert Orci’s brother. (found him on Facebook).

Yes the Robau is named after their uncle who lives in Fort Lauderdale. He is connected to the same family tree as Orci and I. There are now a bunch of Robau’s in Houston and Miami mainly. I must say my father was the first Robau to migrate into the United States (NY) in 1951.

By: Omar Robau

Omar Robau — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:17:03 +0000

roberto orci alex kurtzman have used the name Robau with Don Robau, a character in their Zorro movie with Antonio Banderas. Yes it’s also German for house under construction. But Don Robau has nothing to do with ‘under construction’. Robau comes from Spain and French border in the catolonas. It’s a surname (my family name) my great parents migrated to Cuba. Jose Luis Robau is a famous general who fought in the war of independence from Spain in Cuba. I did not know there was a city named Robau in Cuba – I will look it up. I would really love to know where their affiliation with the name Robau comes from and why they have used it more than once.

By: Omar Robau

Omar Robau — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:09:37 +0000

I’d like to know why roberto orci alex kurtzman more than once have used the name ROBAU as characters in their scripts.

My surname is Robau and it is very uncommon. Mostly of Cuban/Spanish decent.

By: indranee

indranee — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:32:58 +0000

I blame Gandhi, Jinnah, and Mountbatten for the partition of India!

Khan Noonien Singh was written to have been a North Indian, IIRC. howeve, the name “Khan” is a popular last name in both India and Pakistan. some of the biggest names in Bollywood are Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan etc. and some of the biggest names in cricket in Pakistan are Imran Khan, Majid Khan etc etc. Khan is a popular South Asian Muslim name and I believe that is what Roddenberry intended his Space Seed strongman to be..

By: Willow

Willow — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:01:58 +0000

Actually, I amend that last statement. I had a look at the stills again from the movie and he had some serious cleavage going on!

By: Willow

Willow — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:00:32 +0000

I didn’t recognise Khan in the movie (ST II). He kinda looked like an old white woman (from the neck up anyway), not a striking North Indian eugenics superman.

Anyway, Faran Tahir is hot… he’d make a nice Deltan :D.

By: May09---wtf?!

May09---wtf?! — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:09:49 +0000

Khan was genetically engineered anyway, so he doesn’t count as middle-eastern, even though many have made the correct point about Pakistan being south asian.

I’m in the HORATIO HORNBLOWER & BILL BUDD school of TREK enthusiasts. If you haven’t dug in to these books, you’re in for a real treat. It’s like STAR TREK’s long-winded ancestor. I mention this because the examples of OTHER captains, positive and negative, play a significant role in those books. I could see ST2009 taking that approach with guys like Captain Robau, who display traits we come to associate with the smart ass from Iowa.

Also, on the ethnic topic, Robau is a Sulu-like name. Just as we know Sulu to be culturally Japanese with a Filipino surname, whatever cultural identity this captain has, his name is French and it’s the name of a city in Cuba.

By: Jon C

Jon C — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:47:44 +0000

I don’t see any pointy sideburns on that guy.

By: RedShirtWalking

RedShirtWalking — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:52:28 +0000

Khan was a Sikh from northern India, not middle-eastern.