For whom would you name a Starfleet ship?

[JiNX-01]

Hmm lets see.

Von Braun. The man responsible for the Space Race and all that come from it.

Goethe.

Guttenberg. The man who invented the Printing Press. One of THE most important inventions in the history of mankind and unlike the Chinese who invented it earlier then he did. His actually had an impact on the world.

IIRC, wasn't there an Asimov in BoBW?


USS Goddard for the father of the rocket: Robert Goddard

 

[Sci]

Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy. Nelson Mandela. Elizabeth II. Boris Yeltsin. Mackenzie King. Winston Churchill. Franklin D. Roosevelt. George Orwell/Eric Blair. Pierre Trudeau. Golda Mier. Yitzak Rabin. Anna Politkovskaya. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein. Aung San Suu Kyi. Morris Dees. Robert L. Bernstein.

Let me guess...You're currently flustered over the in-fighting in the Dem Party, aren't you?

Can't say I'm flustered over it. I wish it would be resolved sooner, but on the whole, I'm actually pleased with it -- no special interest group, no newsmedia pundit, has been able to control or predict the election. It has been one of the most genuinely democratic -- small-d -- primary elections in history. (Which is not to say it's perfect in that regards -- the discounting of Florida and Michigan voters' wishes and the superdelegate aspect are disturbingly undemocratic.)

Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy. Nelson Mandela. Elizabeth II. Boris Yeltsin. Mackenzie King. Winston Churchill. Franklin D. Roosevelt. George Orwell/Eric Blair. Pierre Trudeau. Golda Mier. Yitzak Rabin. Anna Politkovskaya. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein. Aung San Suu Kyi. Morris Dees. Robert L. Bernstein.

Let me guess...You're currently flustered over the in-fighting in the Dem Party, aren't you?

Yeah Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill are such bleeding hearts.

To be fair, I'd even go ahead and name a ship after Ronald Reagan. It can be the garbage scow that comes up once a month to pick up the biological waste from space stations. Only it's ill-staffed because of layoffs, and the de-unionized space station control crews always screw up and cause her to veer to the right.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

USS Lewis & Clark
USS Dakkar Singh
USS Erikson
USS Roykirk

 

[Bill Morris]

^ I'd prefer I.K.S. Bush

Most of us know that's a Klingon designation, but how about P.G.S Bush? (P.G.S.: Pacled Garbage Scow)

 

[MarianLH]

I'm surprised no one suggested I.S.S. instead.

Here's a random selection of Nobel peace prize winners with shipogenic last names:

William Randal Cremer (1903): Secretary of the International Arbitration League
Bertha von Suttner (1905): Austrian pacifist and first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1907): President, Lombard League of Peace
Hjalmar Branting (1921): Swedish delegate to the League of Nations
Gustav Stresemann (1926): for the Locarno Treaties
Léon Jouhaux (1951): long resume
Albert Lutuli (1960): President of the African National Congress
René Cassin (1968): President, European Court of Human Rights.
Tenzin Gyatso (1989): for pacifism in resisting China's occupation ofTibet

Also Henry Dunant, founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.


Marian

 

[Good Will Riker]

USS Barack Obama

 

[captcalhoun]

the Vulcan who invented warp drive.

 

[drasche]

How about a Defiant-class ship named USS Chuck Norris?

 

[chancellorjake]

Oh, I'm going to need a whole squadron of starships to cover 21st Century Earth's greatest heroes. Preferably, uprated variants of the Nebula, or Ambassador class.

USS Jack O'Neill
USS Samantha Carter
USS Daniel Jackson
USS Teal'c
USS George Hammond
USS Catherine Langford
USS Janet Fraiser
USS Bra'tac
USS Jacob Carter
USS Cameron Mitchell
USS Vala Mal Doran
USS Hank Landry

 

[FalTorPan]

USS YASYAC (Yet Another Ship, Yet Another Crew)

 

[S'kai]

Not only would I, but I did name my Prius-class shuttlecraft the Zhang Heng: a Han dynasty astronomer, inventor, engineer, painter, poet . . . a rival to Leonardo. He determined that eclipses were the result of the shadow of the earth and moon, he invented the armillary sphere and a working seismograph, an odometer, etc., etc.

 

[Balthier the Great]

USS Frank Herbert
Motto The worm is the spice, the spice is the worm

USS Cheney
Motto Still looking for Saddam's WMDs

USS Zhang He
Motto Discovering new lands

and

USS Roddenberry

 

[Admiral2]

USS Ronald Wilson Reagan
USS Rush Limbaugh
USS Sean Hannity
USS Ann Coulter

 

[Danoz]

The U.S.S. Adam West.

In all seriousness, probably would name a ship the U.S.S. Woodrow Wilson, founder of the League of Nations. Wilson, I think, really embodied the spirit and optimism of the Federation.

 

[Danoz]

USS Rush Limbaugh
USS Sean Hannity
USS Ann Coulter

Are the latter three subsections of the U.S.S. Demagogue?

 

[S'kai]

USS Rush Limbaugh
USS Sean Hannity
USS Ann Coulter

Are the latter three subsections of the U.S.S. Demagogue?

They were all ships that would only turn right. As a result, they just flew around in circles.

 

[Non-Trekkie Trekkie]

Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy. Nelson Mandela. Elizabeth II. Boris Yeltsin. Mackenzie King. Winston Churchill. Franklin D. Roosevelt. George Orwell/Eric Blair. Pierre Trudeau. Golda Mier. Yitzak Rabin. Anna Politkovskaya. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein. Aung San Suu Kyi. Morris Dees. Robert L. Bernstein.

Let me guess...You're currently flustered over the in-fighting in the Dem Party, aren't you?

Yeah Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill are such bleeding hearts.

I'd name it the USS Carl Sagan! How about the USS Bill Adama? He's a real person, sorta...

Actually, I do think the Queen is. Your best one is Golda Mier! There's a woman who knew how to bring the HAMMER DOWN!!

 

[Michael]

The U.S.S. Adam West.

I agree.

 

[ZERO_of_ZERO]

USS Roddenberry

Has to be this surely

 

[Lookingglassman]

A Soveriegn Class - USS Patton