TOS: Savage Trade cover

[JD]

However, even a cursory glance at the list of proposed member ships in the class reveals the theme:

NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Archer
NCC–2012 U.S.S. Merida
NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Arjuna
NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Artemis
NCC–1968 U.S.S. Bowman
NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Kyudo
NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Locksley
NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Longbow
NCC–1905 U.S.S. Rama
NCC–xxxx U.S.S. Huang Zhong

Along with the USS Queen, USS Harper, USS Barton, USS Everdeen, USS Cupid...

If you're going to have Queen and Harper, then you should put Bishop in there with Barton.

 

[Christopher]

^Sorry, not familiar with Bishop.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

^Sorry, not familiar with Bishop.

JD's referring to Kate Bishop, the young woman (and Young Avenger) that shares the name "Hawkeye" with Clint Barton. She was recently featured in Matt Fraction's quite excellent Hawkeye series.

 

[Christopher]

^I've vaguely heard of her, but I'm not familiar enough with her to have remembered her off the top of my head.

 

[JD]

I haven't read anything with her in it yet myself, but I've come across her reading about some other characters and the series she's appeared in.

 

[DEWLine]

The stories written by Matt Fraction featuring Clint and Kate are worth chasing down in trade. But I digress...even though I do find borrowing the names of other people's fictional archers for the Archer-class amusing.

 

[vegaslover62]

I almost want to write a fan fiction for the U.S.S. Merida just to say that the quote on the dedication plaque is "I'll compete for me own hand!"

 

[tomswift2002]

USS Harper,[/I]

The Harper. We're you naming that after Canada's current Prime Minister?

 

[DEWLine]

Roy Harper. Not Stephen.

 

[Leto_II]

The stories written by Matt Fraction featuring Clint and Kate are worth chasing down in trade. But I digress...even though I do find borrowing the names of other people's fictional archers for the Archer-class amusing.

Up next...the USS Joffrey (NCC-xxxx):

 

[tomswift2002]

Roy Harper. Not Stephen.

Never heard of Roy.

 

[Christopher]

^I guess you don't watch Arrow, then.

 

[Avro Arrow]

^ I don't, and I have to admit, when I saw USS Harper, I thought the same thing as tomswift2002, and thought "Oh, please, NO!".

But when I got to Everdeen and Cupid, I figured out what you were doing, and assumed Stephen was happily not your intent!

 

[Christopher]

^I have never heard of Stephen Harper. I don't know anything about Canadian politics.

 

[Avro Arrow]

^I have never heard of Stephen Harper.

If only we were so lucky!

(Oops, political comment. Are they verbotten here? Don't want to break any rules...)

 

[Ronald Held]

It is too late to rename the Montana? How many Archer class vessels are active in the TOS timeframe?

 

[Markonian]

^I have never heard of Stephen Harper. I don't know anything about Canadian politics.

He is the current prime minister of Canada. He appears comparatively often in European media, given his position.

 

[David Mack]

It is too late to rename the Montana? How many Archer class vessels are active in the TOS timeframe?

If the cover's been released, the book is long past the point of such revision.

 

[Enterprise1701]

^I have never heard of Stephen Harper. I don't know anything about Canadian politics.

I mainly keep up with Canadian news via Canada's national broadcaster, CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/news

 

[DEWLine]

*goes digging through his e-mail archives*

...I never mentioned the guy to you by name, Christopher. Can't quite believe that, but it's happened. Let's both of us be glad of that and move on. Suffice to say, I like seeing starships named for Marc Garneau and Roberta Bondar much better.

And I think I'll leave it at that.