I'm sure America will have another Enterprise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio.../11/gIQAhGHb5R_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop
http://www.washingtonpost.com/natio.../11/gIQAhGHb5R_story.html?tid=pm_national_pop
Final Deployment of The Enterprise
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Here's a more extensive story on CNN, complete with references to a petition to get a new ship given the name and some very Star Trek-like language from officers saying there can't be a US Navy (read: Starfleet) without an Enterprise.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/1...ier-uss-enterprise-on-final-voyage/?hpt=hp_t3
Get busy - it was the fans who got a space shuttle named Enterprise, after all...
Alex
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/1...ier-uss-enterprise-on-final-voyage/?hpt=hp_t3
Get busy - it was the fans who got a space shuttle named Enterprise, after all...
Alex
It's funny how iconic the name Enterprise has become in North America. Most people hear the name Enterprise, and they think of a ship from Star Trek, even if they're not fans.
Hey, if she's famous enough that her final deployment is making headlines, then she's probably famous enough to get a proper send-off and probably another carrier to carry on the name. I recall a petition to name the next carrier off-the-line to be named Enteprise.
I signed it.
I signed it.
I noticed one person referred to the Enterprise as the US Navy's flagship. That's going to upset some people on this forum, I think.
Indeed, I've been in situations where the word "enterprise" was used the context of business, and everyone else is just confused wondering how or why they were suddenly talking about Star Trek.
^ I saw someone commented in the CNN article that the name 'Enterprise' equates to Fascism... 
I was wondering which forum to post this very story in.
Here's hoping for CVN-80 to be the next USS Enterprise, even if it makes her a Gerald R. Ford class.
A shame they won't be able to preserve her.
Here's hoping for CVN-80 to be the next USS Enterprise, even if it makes her a Gerald R. Ford class.
A shame they won't be able to preserve her.
Ha! True trek fans. Blinded by love!
^ I saw someone commented in the CNN article that the name 'Enterprise' equates to Fascism...
Idiots- The word can be no further from what fascism means.
I was just looking the Ford class... I kind of hope not. Though it's primarily because of the bumbling Mayor and his Brother. Rob and Doug Ford of Toronto. If I even hear the name Ford again, I'll scream. I'll never buy a Ford because of those two pin heads.
How come? I'll assume we undoubtedly have some serving and veteran navy folks in our midst, but is there another ship that's considered the flagship? Certainly a case can be argued that, thanks to Trek, the Enterprise is probably the most recognizable name among the aircraft carriers (average Joe on the street may not know that there's a USS Ronald Reagan, for example.)
Alex
It's a colloquial rather than naval use of the term. Technically speaking, it would be silly to say there is a flagship for the whole navy because the whole navy is not commanded by a flag officer in a ship.
But "flagship" is often used in non-naval contexts to mean things like "preeminent" so I agree it is not worth getting upset about.
Justin
Can wee assume that the ship's motto of the Ford class of carrier will be "Fix Or Repair Daily"?
As for flagship. I'm sure that Enterprise is the flagship of it's battlegroup. The Admiral (flag rank) commands the battlegroup from the carrier. The flagship is whatever ship the battlegroup commander is on.
As for flagship. I'm sure that Enterprise is the flagship of it's battlegroup. The Admiral (flag rank) commands the battlegroup from the carrier. The flagship is whatever ship the battlegroup commander is on.
The term "flagship" actually means ship which carries a flag officer. Therefore there is no "flagship of the US Navy."
There's a very vocal group here on this forum who get very upset every time on Star Trek that the Enterprise is referred to as Starfleet's flagship, so I imagine they wouldn't take too kindly to someone using the term to describe an actual US Navy ship.
For what it's worth, I really don't care and have heard "flagship" used in what some consider the "Star Trek context" repeatedly. For example, I know of one Wal-Mart which is referred to as the "flagship store" for the area. I just find it amusing when people get bent out of shape over it being used in such a way, claiming that only "ignorant modern day Trek writers who know nothing about the military" say flagship in that context when in fact, a lot of people do. So I was kind of trolling for someone to respond like that.
Nice try I guess, but it's not really comparable since it was just some commentator calling her the flagship of the navy, not the carrier's captain.
Justin
Well, regardless of who it is, it's still someone who isn't an "ignorant modern day Trek writer who knows nothing about the military." So it'll be nice to show that yes, other people do use that term in that context.
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Indeed, "flagship" has been reused with other meanings than the true naval one. I think it's rather obvious. Why people must get bent out of shape about it is beyond me. Why does anyone really care?
What I found rather intriguing is that the Enterprise has 8 nuclear reactors aboard. Pretty amazing! But, how strange that it's the removal of these reactors that requires significant deconstruction of the vessel, such that it would be "too costly" to reassemble afterward for museum purposes. This is why they're having to scrap it.
What I found rather intriguing is that the Enterprise has 8 nuclear reactors aboard. Pretty amazing! But, how strange that it's the removal of these reactors that requires significant deconstruction of the vessel, such that it would be "too costly" to reassemble afterward for museum purposes. This is why they're having to scrap it.
^ Nope, Captain Honors was relieved of command.
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