Thinking about Alan’s cubicle and how he has “Gort Klaatu barada nikto” prominently displayed there

as a NERD, Alan knows that it is a movie reference (from The Day the Earth Stood Still) and as a programmer he knows that this reference (a command to an AI to do no harm) is highly relevant to his work

We don’t see much of the “sci-fi fan” side of Alan’s nerdiness in Tron 82, mostly just the serious programmer side, but there are hints of it, like this, and I wanna explore them

like: right now I’m imagining that movie quote played a role in naming the Tron program. Imagining a thought process like:

1. could call it Gort…
2. no, too on-the-nose, maybe spell it backwards?
3. Ew no. “Trog” sounds more caveman than computer
4. maybe change a letter?
5. ok YEAH make that last letter an N and it sounds totally… elecTRONic. Let’s go with that!

(aaaand now I imagine steps 1, 4, and 5 being involved in naming Gorn from Uprising.)

(dunno if she was named by a User, canonically… but if so that User was nerdy enough to know about Gort but somehow unaware of the rubber lizardmask alien Gorn from Star Trek TOS… or MAYBE aware of it and more fond of it than usual)