And how much restriction you need for them to be unique does in fact mean that some are more unique than others.
Anytime there’s a story (online or not!) about someone whose name ends in -ski or -sky, the chances are 50/50 the name will, at some point, be spelled -ksi or -ksy.
Scientific literacy showed up in odd places in Futurama. Omicron Persei (the planet whose inhabitants attack Earth when a 1,000 year old broadcast is interrupted) is approximately 1,000 light years from Earth. Bender’s and Flexo’s serial numbers are both the sum of two cubes. And there’s one where Professor Farnsworth invents the machine that can switch two people’s minds, but not switch them directly back; the theorem that proves that switching back is possible with no more than two additional people is (from what I’ve read) accurate.
In the Italian Job (2003 version with Mark Wahlberg), the protagonists are pursued by a couple of security guards riding BMW R1150RT motorcycles. These have 2-cylinder boxer engines, yet the sound they make in the movie is that of an inline 4-cylinder sportbike.
Maybe wrong to call this a mistake; I have no doubt it was a deliberate choice to appeal to the target audience, who generally don’t care what a BMW boxer engine sounds like.
Ha! In the tv series “Space: 1999,” Martin Landau plays Commander John Koenig. In one ep, there is a locker or something labeled with his name, spelled “Keonig.”
It could work that way in a combat maneuver, as in an assault shuttle approaching a space station with intent to board by force. Coming in really fast, and then decelerating as sharply as possible at the last minute is the best way to shorten the overall time of the transit, thus giving the enemy the least amount of time to prepare.
In ordinary navigation, you’re very right. Course-correction burns should always be calculated to the minimum, and that does mean small corrections early rather than bigger ones later.
In general. I will never forget a character on 21 Jump St saying “I grew up in mun-auch-ee, New Jersey.” How did you grow up there and not learn it is pronounced MOON-auck-ee? Couldn’t someone on the show call the borough hall and get the correct pronounciation.
“Hello, is this the bore-ohg hall?”
The doctor was taking tumor out of my brain last year. He accidentally removed a little too much and gave me a psychosis. Little errors like that just drive me insane.
But how do you feel about the scientific accuracy of Futurama?
Speaking of bad pronounciating, it bugs me when someone gets introduced as “here is Dr. Heincles” and he says it “hine culs”, and then someone responds “glad to meet you, Dr Hen clees”. Obviously there was no pronunciation guide with the script, and each actor just read it their own way. This is usually in sci-fi shows with their weird alien names.
Real people would actually hear the name, and get the same pronunciation. But, even so, you’d think in the first rehearsal they’d get on the same page, but nope. I’ve seen this in finished episodes.
Obviously, this is a production blunder…but it’s fun to point out that I’ve seen this happen fairly often in real life. Some people have trouble pronouncing certain words, and can’t even successfully echo what they’ve just heard.
I have a friend who absolutely cannot pronounce “Ysidro” correctly. He always says “Isidero” instead of “Ee-see-dro.”
But, hell no, I’d never put that kind of business in a serious script. (It could work in a comedy!)
Not at all. It simply means that they are unique in different ways, or amongst different groups.
Is there anything worse than when a miscreant flaunts the law?
Space:1999’s premise is that the moon is hurtling through space because of an atomic explosion, so anything else after that is not worth kvetching about. 
If you’ve got it, flout it.
You need to reign in your objections.
Sorry, but I have to nitpick your nitpick. My father who for 40 years after WWII was in charge of building some very large very famous concrete buildings here in Southern California always said pour. As in we are pouring on Friday, so I will be home late.
I really love a good space show - drama, comedy, whatever.
And generally, I don’t get too fussed about the ‘science’. Hey, they’re aliens! Maybe their technology is better than our’s - so they can travel faster than light, or generate artificial gravity, or propagate sound through a vacuum - that’s fine. Ditto for earth-based technology of the future - it’s all going to be invented tomorrow! (And before you bring up ID4, just assume the aliens used a software that accepted all operating systems. Still should have used a password, though;)).
But, when space movies or TV shows are set today, using today’s technology, for some reason I get really pernickety about the slightest errors and absurdities, and will rant, yell and eventually throw the remote at the TV in exasperation.
(Why, yes, I did get around to watching Gravity recently - why do you ask?).
In “Primer,” there is a scene where someone is soldering a circuit board - by dripping solder on the joints!
I mean - come on - couldn’t they even find one person who knew how to solder for that scene? It took me right out of the movie.