Well I wouldn't call that a BAD starship name...![]()
You're right. It's a TERRIBLE name.

Well I wouldn't call that a BAD starship name...![]()
The reason why it's a bad name is that Sisko, Jake, and Kassidy Yates are the only 3 people in the Federation who would know what it meant.Well I wouldn't call that a BAD starship name...![]()
But I'd imagine that a baseball cap would be part of the ship's standard uniform, with a spiffier variety for dress occasions.![]()
Don't know about Vico, but Biko was presumably named after the anti-apartheid campaigner who was murdered in the mid 70s.There was a point in late TNG at which they had two ships with nearly identical-sounding names. There was the SS Vico from "Hero Worship" (S5, E11) and the USS Biko from "A Fistful of Datas" (S6, E8), mentioned relatively close together, both members of the Oberth class. These two were after "The Battle" where we learned that the Stargazer had a weapons officer named "Vigo" (who probably got a ship named after him a hundred years later too). I remember Stewart's accent and delivery of these names muddied them together in my brain over the years, causing a bit of confusion over which was named what.
I suppose they might now be known by another name - "utility cap" (service) or "athletic cap" (sports), perhaps, with the temporary decline in baseball popularity.
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