I read a remark once about that: "A woman finally gets to be captain, and they give her a ship named after a minivan."
Bad Starship Names
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I read a remark once about that: "A woman finally gets to be captain, and they give her a ship named after a minivan."
Probably a Axanar referenceIn what way?
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That sounds exactly like the name a Culture ship might have. It lacks gravitas.
Any name that basically indicates violent intent - Vengeance, or Conqueror, for example. Keeping in mind that you may have first contact with a peaceful alien civilization at any time, you're not going to want to have to explain your ship's name (should they ask), if you're aboard the USS Rapine.
Conversely, I think the Culture might view the Federation as a well-intentioned, yet still slightly immature society that takes itself far too seriously and doesn't yet dare to take action where it should (Prime Directive and such).
There is a Starfleet ship in one of the novels called the USS Bill of Rights.
I mean, obviously that's a fine document in and of itself, just seems rather pretentious to name a SHIP after it.
I mean, obviously that's a fine document in and of itself, just seems rather pretentious to name a SHIP after it.
There is a Starfleet ship in one of the novels called the USS Bill of Rights.
I mean, obviously that's a fine document in and of itself, just seems rather pretentious to name a SHIP after it.
Oh I like long and overwrought starship names like that. I always forget which book series it is, but there's a fictional universe where all the ships are named like that "The Ends Of Invention" and stuff like that.
Edit: It's the Culture books by Iain M. Banks
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USS Recalcitrant
USS Obstropolous
or
USS Thresher
USS Trump
and for fellow Brits
USS Pvt James Frazer
Funnily enough, the S.S. TSIOLKOVSKY - an Oberth Class vessel featured in the TNG episode The Naked Now - was named in honor of the Russian spaceflight theorist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky who was also, incidentally, a genocidal racist and eugenicist. I guess that @Mike Okuda didn’t exactly do his homework when it came to recommending spacecraft names to the TNG producers.
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There is a Starfleet ship in one of the novels called the USS Bill of Rights.
I mean, obviously that's a fine document in and of itself, just seems rather pretentious to name a SHIP after it.
Like the Constitution-class?
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The best Culture ship name is, of course, Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.
Like the Constitution-class?
Hmmm for some reason I always associated it with the definition of Constitution in relation to physical health. But English isn't my first language so...
I thought it would be cool to have a ship named the USS Audacity. That way, when the villain ship captain exclaims the name of the hero ship coming in to thwart their plans, it sounds like he's extremely offended at their gall.
No, Timothy only thought that he accidentially blew up the Vico. But it was explained that there were precautions against accidential control use to blow up a ship.
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Of course, but I never turn down the opportunity to make a bad joke.
Yeah, It's awkward in english, but a great name, and great hero. "Damn the Torpedoes, full steam ahead!" - https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/N...-ahead-navys-first-admiral-was-hispanic-hero/
I used to pass that statue in Madison Square park every day even sat there to eat lunch several times I didn't even know he was Hispanic- Menorcan.
Had the Micro Machine - "NCC-60597"
From Generations-
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We should really stop glorifying the time the Soviets tortured a dog to death in space and called it "science".
Laika was not the first living animal sent into space. But it was the first animal in orbit.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space
