Outpost Argo's Make-An-NPC Contest #1: Club Owner Ackbar
Dubbed 'Ackbar' ICly by our beloved Commodore for his resemblance to a certain Sci Fi cephalopod, the joke ran rampant when the fleet voted for the club name of 'Ackbar's Grill and Crab Shack', or 'Ackbar's' for short.
Theories on how Ackbar, if that's even his real name, came to bid for space on Outpost Argo, why his club name is what it is, and what mysterious hold he had on Razor to get instated, have run rampant in the TFA:SFK channel. It's time now to put that creativity to use. With our debut Make-An-NPC contest, which will last over the course of multiple stages, the fleet has a chance to make a conglomeration effort and forge an NPC we all can know and love.
Stage 1 is very short and very straight forward, consisting of two aspects:
1) Invent a full name for Ackbar, or explain his current name. Is it a nickname? His first name? His last name? The middle, or a substring of his full name? The name of his dog? A pet name from his second lover? Post your submission here.
2) Following the duty officer trait list, vote on the traits that bar owner Ackbar would yield if he was a bartender DOFF. Please limit yourself to 5 choices.
Contest ends in one week, then we begin Stage 2, using the results from Stage 1.
Full name: 'Acksilarezahba'r', becomes nickname 'Ackbar'.
According to his species, 'Acksilar' is his family name. 'Zahba'r' is his first name. The 'e' denotation means 'not daughter of!' It's a matriarchal society.
There is no reason that the Star Wars movies wouldn't exists in Star Trek. If he resembles Ackbar, then it's highly likely one of the Human's he's met over he years assigned him that nick-name. Especially if, as Skyler noted above, it's possible to pull said nick-name from his species name.
Source of the name "Ackbar" is due to razor picking it for him, thinking it was fitting for some reason known only to Razor. It just happened to stick.
"Hey Ackbar, set me up with a drink."
"*Siiigh* I told you, my name is Reg-"
"That's nice Ackbar, why don't you rustle up a bucket of crablegs for me too while your at it."
"*Sigh*"
Salmen, or as his contemporories say, Don Pintas, comes from a planet in the Beta Quadrant with the peculier distinction of having been voted as having the best cusine by Galactic Delicacy Quarterly five years in a row. Unfortunately Don Pintas was not born with the gift of cooking, rather he has the lesser known gift of being skilled in the art of mixing drinks and chemistry. The Commision on Food and Supplements does not recongnize the profession of Mixing as a fully established profession and therefore is not looked upon as highly as cooking. Many Ackbari mixers usually emigrate from Ackbari Prime once they finish their studies at the Central Academy for Mixing and Chemical Studies.
Mixers, as they are called, although not as appreciated in their own planet, are highly sought after in the Beta Quadrant, it's rumored that Sela's personal wine taste hails from this planet.
His species is originally from the small ocean world of Coviso III and that is where he grew up. Once he was older enough he joined the crew of a local freighter in order to leave his small world behind and explore. The only position they had open was as the cook, so he quickly learned to cook the seafoods that his fellow crew mates enjoyed. During a trade mission to a small Frengi colony he met a young Ferengi named Parta. She was not your typical Ferengi. She had never deemed the acquisition of wealth to be terribly important and this led to her divorce (another rarity on Ferenginar) from her first husband. They instantly fell in love and decided that while neither really liked acquiring wealth, they both enjoyed interacting with people. So they opened a small restaurant and bar on Galador IV.
"Ackbar" is a nickname that Parta called him when they were first married and it has stuck ever sense. In Destekial's native language, "Ackbar" is the word for gold-pressed latinum. Parta always said that he was the only wealth she ever wished to acquire. And that is how their little inside joke developed into his nickname. Their original bar became popular with many Federation crews on leave at the nearby resort. Eventually they decided to pick up and move to Outpost Argo. Parta thought it would be cute if they named the bar after her nickname for Destekial and the station agreed. Parta isn't seen around the bar much lately as she has been busy with the twins they recently had together.