User blog comment:Icon1994/New Team Members=New Mentors/@comment-174.102.12.142-20130102232432/@comment-1038387-20130102234341

Also, someone did not grow up with Star Trek: Voyager.

But as for the name, Black Vulcan was a Captain Ersatz of Black Lightning, a then new fresh black hero, but they couldn't get the rights to have him on TV. So they created a very similar character. One of the meanings of Vulcan, one from which probably all others come, was the god of fire in the Roman pantheon, Vulcanus. His Greek counterpart, Hephaestus, was the creator of Zeus's lightning bolts (dunno about Vulcan, but he's an expy himself). As such, Black Lightning-maker.