A series of sister ships, Excalibur-class USS Excalibur USS Arthur USS Badon USS Camlann USS Tristan USS Guenevere USS Merlin USS Lancelot
When I was a teen designing my starship she was the Panavia Class Agincourt. Panavia was the company name behind the Tornado fighter/bombers and Agincourt was the battle Henry V fought against the French in 1415. Admittedly neither are particularly "trek" inspirations, but there you go. There used to be a model of Jaguar car called a Sovereign, so I always wanted there to be a Sovereign class USS Jaguar. dJE
I habve a whole list of people I'd name starships after... U.S.S. Martin Luther King, Jr. U.S.S. Nelson Mandela U.S.S. Nagy Imre U.S.S. Patrice Lumumba U.S.S. Howard Zinn U.S.S. Noam Chomsky U.S.S. Malcolm X U.S.S. Bayard Rustin U.S.S. Chris Hedges U.S.S. Dag Hammarskjöld U.S.S. Alice Paul U.S.S. Lucy Burns U.S.S. Harvey Milk U.S.S. Cesar Chavez U.S.S. Eugene Debs U.S.S. W. E. B. Du Bois U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S.S. John Lewis U.S.S. Elizabeth Cady Stanton U.S.S. Lucy Stone U.S.S. Helen Keller U.S.S. Gloria Steinem U.S.S. Andrew Young U.S.S. Aung San Suu Kyi U.S.S. Salvador Allende U.S.S. Karl Marx U.S.S. Adam Smith U.S.S. Hannah Arendt U.S.S. Jean-Paul Sartre U.S.S. Albert Camus U.S.S. Naomi Klein U.S.S. Gabriel Garcia Márquez U.S.S. Yitzak Rabin U.S.S. U Thant U.S.S. Raúl Alfonsín U.S.S. Simon Bolívar U.S.S. David Ben Gurion U.S.S. Raúl Grijalva U.S.S. Keith Ellison U.S.S. Bernie Sanders U.S.S. Marcy Kaptur U.S.S. Paul Wellstone U.S.S. Barbara Ehrenreich U.S.S. Mary Harris Jones U.S.S. Joe Hill U.S.S. Bill Haywood U.S.S. Frank Little U.S.S. Lech Wałęsa U.S.S. Olof Palme U.S.S. Clement Attlee U.S.S. Paulo Freire U.S.S. Augusto César Sandino U.S.S. Jack Layton U.S.S. Tommy Douglas
The U.S.S. Black Orchid (after a episode of "Doctor Who" ) Her own class... http://captshade.deviantart.com/art/USS-Black-Orchid-Multi-View-90280706
In the early 90's I designed a ship for a fanzine contest and named it USS Butterfly -- first of its class so it was Butterfly class. I choosed the name by opening a dictionary at a random page and pointing at a word.
^ Reminds me of that bit from an early TNG episode where Riker is trying to fool a computer by telling it he serves on the USS Lollipop. "It's a good ship."
Here are some names from some of my favourite classes of ship: U.S.S. Ford - Miranda-Class (since the Miranda is the Ford Truck of starships) U.S.S. Claymore - Sabre-Class U.S.S. Ranger - Ambassador-Class U.S.S. Nemesis - Defiant-Class U.S.S. Asgard - Norway-Class U.S.S. Trident - Excelsior-Class
U.S.S HEISENBERG It's secret weapon is it's Uncertainty drive. No enemy can get a weapons lock on it because it randomly keeps shifting position. Kind of like the "Picard Manuever" on overdrive.
Well, I've already created and named a buttload: http://www.inpayne.com/models/kitbash/trekpage.html Of those, the two I'm working into fanfics are the Grand Alliance and the Venture. They were my first kitbashes, so they have a special place for me.
That would totally work as a ship name....in the MIRROR universe. The real Heisenberg headed the nuclear fission program for Nazi Germany!
Fun thread. Some great answers. I'll go for the USS Thestral. Doesn't need a cloaking device because it naturally can't be seen (by anyone, not just those who've seen someone die).
The USS Sagan and USS Tyson are marvelous, as are the ones from Sci's list. I'd pick the USS Copernicus. Who better than astronauts to honor the knowledge that we are not the center of the universe? I'll make it a Galaxy class, since they seemed better equipped for science than any starship I remember, including the science vessels.