It was "Valon" or "Valeon" or something like that. I never watched the shows so he was the one who said it was a Star Treck character. Poor kid must be like 15-16 years old by now. To each their own but I'm still more of a "Bob", "Mary", etc. Kind of guy.
STAR TREK NERD ALERT!
Not that many characters come to mind with a name starting with the letter V. The letter was more commonly associated with Vulcan characters. Is the kid a teenaged girl or boy?
I'm thinking the character may have been pulled from a 90s or 2000's series or movie for a child that age. Maybe from the 80's with
The Next Generation...
Just spitballing. If the kid is a boy, I would guess Vorik..? He was a Vulcan character on
Voyager.
If the kid is a girl, I would guess it's Valeris, played by Kim Cattrall in
The Undiscovered Country. I would put money on Cattrall leaving a lasting impression on the father if the kid is a girl.