Decker
They both had encounters with giant powerful alien machines.
Commodore Decker met his end with the Giant Ice Cream Cone of Doom.
His son Decker went off into the misty recesses of the Cosmos with V'Ger and Ilya.
On another Star Trek note, the NPR program Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! played a
clip of Leonard Nimoy on their program. He mentioned meeting a certain presidential
candidate who gave him the Vulcan salute and quickly added that it was not McCain.
I didn't know Palin was into Star Trek. :^)