Four names for Daniel's baby that Vala would object to and one that she accepts.
Word Count: 604
1) PX3-317
Humans have a strange habit of occasionally naming their children after the location of their conception. Vala thinks this is dumb. PX3-317, the most likely spot, is a horrible name for a baby.
So are Storage Closet 47 and Medical Supply Closet 9B, the other two possibilities.
Daniel concurs that these names are horrible and will not be used on their offspring. However, he inexplicably turns deep crimson when she explains their line of reasoning to anyone who asks about baby names.
2) After anyone on SG-1
Well, they can’t pick just one, now can they? The others would feel slighted.
The best Vala’s come up with is Tam, a combination of all three. And frankly, she doesn’t like it all that much. Daniel pointed out that that doesn’t include Jack, and Vala pointed out that she doesn’t even know Jack.
Teal’c suggested Tam’k, and that was about when the whole “Name the Baby after SG-1” plan went out the window.
3) After any of their grandparents.
Both the Jacksons and the Mal Dorans had fairly tragic or unhappy lives. The exception being Vala's father, and the difference being that he's still alive.
Vala would like for their child to have his or her own destiny, without bearing such a connection to people with their own stories. Also, she absolutely hates Daniel’s parents’ names.
And there’s the part where she named the Oraci after her stepmother, and it just seems too matchy-matchy to name the Not Evil child after the parent she actually liked.
4) Janet.
That name belongs to the future daughter of Sam Carter.
Vala knows a little about the doctor who watched out for SG-1 in its previous incarnations. She comes up occasionally, usually in the context of a story in which one of SG-1 nearly dies. They all loved her - still do, in fact.
Vala’s met the child she adopted, now a grown woman. She thinks a lady willing to take on an orphaned alien time-bomb sounds like someone she would have liked to meet.
Sam mentioned the whole I’m-naming-my-daughter-after-her-so-plea
se-don’t-steal-it one morning while Vala was vomiting uncontrollably in the toilet, seconds after running out of the Gateroom before they were supposed to head off on a mission.
And since Vala hadn’t told anyone she was pregnant yet, she looked up from the toilet bowl in confusion.
“And it’ll be Fraiser for a boy,” Sam continued, smiling knowingly.
So, those are out. Daniel did actually bring it up, but when Vala explained Sam’s claim he dropped it.
5) Roark, for a boy or girl.
The internet tells her it means “Champion” in some mostly extinct Earth language. Daniel, of course, mildly disagrees and argues that it can also be interpreted to mean something much more mundane.
She retorts that she likes Google’s answer better than his, and that’s the one she’s going with.
After Daniel’s lecture on not trusting the internet because he’s smarter than it, he eventually agrees that Roark is not bad.
Vala doesn’t mention it, but Roark also bears a strong phonetic resemblance to the word ‘home’ in her native language. Daniel, in the process of learning that language as well as she can teach him, doesn’t make the connection.
“I can’t believe you know 400 versions of one profanity but can’t remember how to conjugate the plural form in the subjunctive,” he complains.
Inside, Roark hears his or her father being petulant, and kicks Vala squarely in the bladder. It occurs to her that soon she’s going to be dealing with another Jackson, and that makes Vala feel so strangely warm that she doesn’t even call him any one of the 100 more varieties of sexual perversion-related obscenities that she also knows.