Talk:Companion

Star Trek
Wasn't there a Star Trek episode called "the Companion"? (I refer to the original Kirk-Spock series from the 1960s). Uncle Ed 18:35, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You may be thinking of "Metamorphosis", which featured an alien called "the Companion". —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 21:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Previously deleted
I just discovered that this page was deleted not too long ago. Without knowing what the article was like in its previous incarnation, I don't know whether it would survive another AfD discussion. Should we try to turn this into more of a standard disambiguation page, or what? —Josiah Rowe 18:38, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

Firefly aspect
I'm removing all Firefly links to this article, and removing the Firefly category. This is because this article had one whole sentence to say about Firefly:
 * In the television series Firefly and the related movie Serenity, a "Companion" is a skilled and well-respected member of a guild of professional courtesans/entertainers, similar to geishas.

I'm sure I'll find it easy to incorporate that information into existing articles, as needed. I don't expect anyone to have a problem with this. -b 03:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Has*, decided not delete it since it serves as a kind of disamb., in a way. -b 03:39, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I added a bit more, explaining why the meaning is relevant to the series (Inara is one of the main characters), and restored the category accordingly. If you still feel that this is too trivial, you can revert, but as you say it's a sort of disambiguation, and within the context of Firefly it's worth including in the category.  It's awkward because the various meanings of the word are mostly just this side of being dicdefs, and would probably be sub-stubs on their own, but if we reduced the page to a proper disambiguation page we'd probably lose content.  I feel like the page needs some sort of work, but I'm not sure what. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, I'll leave it for now I guess. The editing I did was part of a much larger clean up of the entire Firefly section of Wikipedia.  I've been merging a lot of articles, and such.  I have no problem leaving the content, I guess there's nothing wrong with the category.  If, someday, this page does become a true disambiguation page, then we can delete them. -b 20:16, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

In Literature
What is a companion novel? -User:Carie
 * One that goes with another, from what I can tell. For instance, Isaac Asimov's Robot Dreams and Robot Visions books are both collections of his short stories (and in the latter case, a few essays as well). He states in the introduction to Robot Visions that Robot Dreams is meant to be its "companion", including several of his other key short stories (including "The Last Question"). The implication being that to get a whole picture of his "robot stories" (or at least, his robot short stories), you'd need to read both. Neither book, however, is either a direct sequel or a direct prequel to the other. I would imagine that a novel that take place in the same world as another book but doesn't include the same main character and isn't a prequel or sequel, would be a "companion novel". At least, that's how I've seen it used, since I've seen the term, but never in the context of a prequel or sequel.


 * Additionally, sometimes something is a "companion" (goes with) to something in another medium, though this usually refers to guides to stories or series, especially film and television, as opposed to related novels. I say this because I know of the Serenity Visual Companion, a book about the feature film Serenity that included a copy of the shooting script along with notes about the characters and world, the lyrics to "The Ballad of Serenity", some photos and conception art, and memos to production staff. You can't seperate it from the film, but it complements it. Runa27 23:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

cleanup please
This page is too jumbled. I don't think it hsould be a disambig, but maybe some sections? The best image we can find is a companionway on a boat? And do we really need the whole Firefly template at the bottom? Ewlyahoocom 02:50, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Dunno about the Firefly template — I'll leave that decision to another editor — but I've bulleted the different meanings, which I think clears it up visually a bit (and makes it a bit closer to being a real disambiguation page). At the Doctor Who WikiProject we've had some discussion about starting an article for the Doctor Who meaning of companion, but haven't done anything about it yet... —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 01:12, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't like the use of the Firefly template here. Categorising the article under the series is fine and perfectly acceptable, but the template gives something of a wrong impression as the article as a whole does not relate to how the word is used in the 'verse. --Bacteria 18:07, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Furthermore, Companions of the Prophet already has an article and there is a category for Doctor Who Companions.  Perhaps we could split this article up a bit.  If there is enough information for a whole article on the Firefly aspect, then perhaps one should be made.  If not, then I think that the information covered in the other Firefly sections covers the definition given in this article sufficiently and we do not need the Firefly template in this article.Alethiareg 19:22, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I think there's enough information about Firefly 'verse Companions to warrant an article. There's two or more essays specifically on the role of Companion or origins/inspiration for it in the book Finding Serenity: Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly, which was composed of essays and literary criticisms of the Firefly series, quite in-depth stuff, as well as numerous things easily gleaned from the series (such as those not registered with the Guild are considered "whores" and not "Companions", that they have thie rown Guild, that registered Companions recieve a lot of special training and education in the arts similar to geisha or courtesans would have, and that they have a high status in society in the series), mostly because Inara's a Companion and one of the main characters in the series, so you get to see a lot of things relating to it. Runa27 23:55, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't there be an article for Companion and then this page be located at Companion (disambiguation)? DoomsDay349 02:32, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

What about...
...the nautical sense? I keep reading old sailing ship works and they refer to a "companion ladder". 68.39.174.238 16:57, 7 August 2007 (UTC)