Starship Names

[James Wright]

Has there been any Federation starships with an apostrophe in their name?


James

 

[JRoss]

Guess I'll point out the obvious misuse of the apostrophe in your post.

 

[sojourner]

The T'Pau. for one.

 

[James Wright]

Don't mean to be nitpicker but the T'Pau was a Vulcan ship, not a Federation starship.

James

 

[F. King Daniel]

IIRC, there was a USS ShirKahr [sic] spotted in DS9, named for Spock's hometown, which was spelled "ShiKahr" in old novels, "Shi'Kahr" in the 2009 movie's alternate opening and "Shi Kahr" on some set decoration in Enterprise. The extra "r" in "USS ShirKahr" was a typo.

So... there's that. One spelling out of four, which wasn't the one actually used on the model of the ship.

 

[R. Star]

The USS T'Kumbra comes to mind. It was a Nebula-class with an all Vulcan crew.

 

[Timo]

The extra "r" in "USS ShirKahr" was a typo.

...Although it could be a wholly different place/person on Vulcan, too. After all, "Newark" isn't a misspelling of "New York", despite appearances.

It does seem USS T'Kumbra is the only onscreen starship with an apostrophe in the name. And even that ship was represented by stock footage, carefully done so that it is impossible to see the name of the ship - so the same shots were used to portray USS Prometheus ("Second Sight"), USS Lexington ("Explorers") and USS T'Kumbra ("Take Me In the Holosuite" or somesuch), and most probably none of those names were ever actually painted on the model...

So technically, there has never verifiably been an apostrophe in a starship name. For all we know, the "correct" spelling of that Vulcan name is Tikumvra!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[The Wormhole]

Don't mean to be nitpicker but the T'Pau was a Vulcan ship, not a Federation starship.

James

Vulcan is a Federation world, and therefore their ships are Federation starships.

Assuming you actually mean Starfleet ships, then according to Memory Alpha, the following have apostrophes:

USS D'hjty
USS G'Mat
USS T'Kumbra

 

[T'Cal]

<in my best impersonation of Cmdr. Hutchinson "Hutch">
But did you notice how many starships share their names with Chrysler products?? Dakota, Challenger, Intrepid, Horizon, Valiant, Concord(e), Voyager, Aries, Hornet, Reliant, and Avenger. Chrysler went so far as buying out American Motors so it could own Eagle, Ambassador, and Renegade - Matador and Javelin are non-canon but used in the video game ST: Armada. There are others out there from other vehicle manufacturers (Honda's Odyssey, Nissan's Titan, Chevy's Venture, Pontiac's Phoenix, etc.) but Chryslet has had the most by far. I'm still waiting for the Dodge Excelsior and the Chrysler Enterprise.