My take on the USS
Hrumog's dedication plaque would look something like this and even more like the format observed on USS
Franklin (which this website does not allow me to reproduce):-
Tellar Prime Shipyard, Miracht
United Federation of Planets
USS HRUMOG
G'BUQOFF CLASS
STARFLEET REGISTRY TCC-G215
"Agreement must never be assumed, Disagreement need never be a deal-breaker - Cherok'Ukora"
- Those wondering why the dedication plaque of a Tellarite ship is in English (or at least 'Federation Standard') rather than a Tellarite language might be interested to know that the Tellarites are still busy building a new language for that purpose (Tellarites not only love argument, they love talking; Tellarites not only love talking, the love language; Tellarites not only love the languages they already have, they love constructing entirely new ones) and have agreed to use a non-Tellarite language as a placeholder in the meantime, as a display of inter-Federation solidarity.
In fact the language they build for this purpose will end up being used as the linguistic kernel for Federation Standard, which will be used on almost every Federation vessel in future ... and be translated into English for the convenience of Paramount Pictures!
- 'Tellar Prime Shipyard' is borrowed from the video games STAR TREK ARMADA & ARMADA II by way of Memory Alpha (at this time the shipyard is still a-building, but the name is already used for registration purposes on Space Administration vessels in anticipation of Future Glories); 'Miracht' is the Tellarite name for Tellar Prime itself and is not used twice for the sake of avoiding redundancy.
- The
G'buqoff class was borrowed from the old FASA sourcebook on the Romulan War; it's an armed transport that can be used for attack runs & supply runs with equal efficiency. While an older design by the RISE OF THE FEDERATION era (having first entered service as early as 2082 CE, then been continually built and rebuilt for a remarkably long time afterwards), USS
Hrumog itself is only fourteen years old in the Year of Federation (aka 2161 CE).
At least by Earth reckoning; Tellarite Years are 400 twenty-hour days long, so by Tellarite reckoning the
Hrumog is over fifteen years old.
- That Registry number indicates that USS
Hrumog is the two hundred and fifteenth vessel of the G'Buqoff-class; the habit of using a letter as part of the registry number for a freighter (freighters being more numerous than almost every other class of starship larger than a shuttle so the numbers would be outrageously high otherwise) is one that I like to imagine as an example of Starfleet following on from Tellarite precedent, the Tellar Space Administration at this date being at least notionally responsible for the construction, registration & deployment of
all Tellarite starships (even if the Administration has more luck with registration than getting its way r.e. its other two areas of responsibility, Tellarites preferring to ask pardon than to request permission).
- The registry number '215' is of course a nod to JOURNEY TO BABEL (Episode 2 x 15 of THE ORIGINAL SERIES), where the Tellarites make their first appearance.
- Cherok'Ukora is, more or less, the 'Karl Marx meets Mahatma Gandhi' of Tellar; a mathematician turned politician who advocated an end to the Voice Wars (contemporary to Humanity's First World War and their peer in terms of Mass Casualties & Massive Devastation), he pioneered the more peaceful & pluralistic era of modern Tellarite civilisation through his advocacy of what one might describe as 'Civil Disagreement' (in other words he persuaded armies & whole nations to go on strike and negotiate for a better world, because it was better to argue amongst themselves than to accept a sunk cost fallacy and march against those who should be neighbours & friends without question).
The quote is intended to sum up Tellarite attitudes to argument in a nutshell; it's a lesson that might prove useful to the fledgeling Federation.
- Strictly speaking Cherok'Ukora should simply be 'Cherok' but I wanted to come up with an homage to the two part names usually given to Tellarites (to help make him sound more Tellarite and less Vulcan), hence my decision to add on the name of his movement ('Ukora' means 'No' in the oldest, most foundational language of Tellar Prime) to his own.
Combined with his personal name (i.e. the name he personally chose, an important rite of passage amongst Tellarites), the whole means something like 'Naismith' or 'Cherok the Naysmith' in a number of Tellarite dialects (including his own birth-language).
