ive already commanded my own ship in my own sci fi film COSMOSIS. the ship is called the INTERGALACTIC STAR VOYAGER and its way more advanced than any star trek ship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTs7EyVAcXw
USS Deepening, Vesta-class. (If you're worried the name doesn't fit the class, "Deepening" is the Andorian word for midnight in Trek lit, a time of communal meals in a clan's keep. Hearth and family, so Vesta is appropriate!) I have a list of ship names for my personal (sadly imaginary) fleet. Deepening is the flagship.
Mine would be the USS Rabid Gerbil. It gets into a lot of fights--because, with a name like that, it can't avoid them. Boldly go.... Sean
I presume the USS Hephaestus would be crewed by Vulcans? I love the idea of USS Vonnegut that someone mentioned, how about USS Billy Pilgrim or USS Tralfamadore? or even USS Poo-Tee-Weet? How about: USS Baikonur USS Victor Hugo USS Charlemagne USS Karl Marx USS Weatherwax USS Bobby Charlton USS Beatles USS Ursula Le Guin
The names of the ships in my fleet would be more like the Culture novel series, if I was a fleet admiral. Some I would definitely include: USS No More Mr Nice Guy USS Of Course I Still Love You USS So Much For Subtlety USS Just Testing USS Meat Fucker USS I Blame Your Mother USS God Told Me To Do It USS Someone Else's Problem USS All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff USS Now Look What You've Made Me Do USS Size Isn't Everything (Defiant) USS We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine (Enterprise) USS Just Passing Through (Voyager) Gotta love those names.
^ Culture ship names FTW ^ Wonder what the Federation would be like if the ships' computers were like the AIs in the Culture novels...
If we're going to bring the Culture into this it's more a case of "What would your ship name itself"...
Well, I personally envision the Kelvin being a "Solomon Class" ship, so I drag up the names of USS Solomon - NCC-0500 USS Newton - NCC-0501 USS DaVinci - NCC-0502 USS Cochrane - NCC-0503 USS Socrates - NCC-0504 USS Copernicus - NCC-0505 USS Archimedes - NCC-0506 USS Tesla - NCC-0507 You get the idea. Take about twenty five to thirty ships all named after famous scientists/philosophers/wiseguys of Earth history.