Bad Starship Names

[Richard S. Ta]

Most, yes, but not each and every one. Brunt, for example, seemed a relatively decent guy in the Mirror universe. I thought he seemed nicer than prime Brunt, even though he was a mercenary. Smiley or Jennifer Sisko didn't seem too bad either once you got to know them, their life just was a lot rougher to make them turn out the way they did.

Also, if it were true, what would Mirror Hitler and Mirror Stalin have been like? Come to think of it, we never saw Mirror Dukat either, did we?

I think at least the (weird) idea is that somehow at heart they are exactly the same people, bent by different circumstances. In Mirror Mirror we see that Mirror Spock is not so different to Prime Spock.

Like, being from the MU doesn’t inherently make you a bad guy. You could even be a good guy in both.

I suppose in many ways every subsequent writer has been getting it wrong in terms of what Mirror Mirror portrayed originally.

I don’t know exactly though.

Controversial Opinion 1:

Star Trek should never go to the MU again.

Controversial Opinion 2:

Unless it’s for Kelvin 4.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Controversial Opinion 1:

Star Trek should never go to the MU again.

Agreed. It was a unique, tension-filled trip when introduced. After that, its "well, its supposed to be dystopian, evil society, so let's turn that up to cartoonish degrees!" The biggest selling point / saving grace of ENT's TOS 2-parter was that it was set in TOS era.

 

[Ferengi Prime 5]

Her is one...
This lady needs a star ship... She brought peace...

Captain Rachel Garrett

USS Garrett....

Data needs a starship... Science one

USS Data ...

 

[1001001]

Her is one...
This lady needs a star ship... She brought peace...

Captain Rachel Garrett

USS Garrett....

How is that a Bad Starship Name?

 

[SJGardner]

USS Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning.

It's culturally very significant to Vogons Azgoths of Kria (curse my being a half-educated smartypants).

 

[oberth]

How is that a Bad Starship Name?

especially as there is a uss garrett albeit in the online game

 

[Timofnine]

• USS Farage
• USS Boris
• USS Trump
• USS Stalin
• USS Putin
• USS Thatcher

Not necessarily bad Starship name choices, but potentially controversial.

 

[oberth]

^uss putin is named for a murdered politruk on a sovjet submarine, right?

who is mr or mrs boris?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

USS Ivanka

 

[cooleddie74]

Oh, I'd say the Putin and Stalin are indisputably bad names for any ship. Maybe the first name can be salvaged over the generations but Stalin...yeah, that one's ruined for time and eternity.

 

[oberth]

• USS Farage
• USS Boris
• USS Trump
• USS Stalin
• USS Putin
• USS Thatcher

Not necessarily bad Starship name choices, but potentially controversial.

at least four of those are not significant enough and the others are not really controversial - a controversial one would be uss reagen

 

[Timofnine]

USS Musk?

 

[Bekk Ishy Z]

Well, we named an airport after the President who fired all the air traffic controllers, so... ironic?

 

[oberth]

USS Musk?

USS Elon Musk

just saying

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

But the USS Ivanka is a warship with lots of bling

 

[Timofnine]

USS Thunberg

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

USS Thunberg

It's weapon of choice a mile wide speaker that says "How dare you"

 

[at Quark's]

I think at least the (weird) idea is that somehow at heart they are exactly the same people, bent by different circumstances. In Mirror Mirror we see that Mirror Spock is not so different to Prime Spock.

Like, being from the MU doesn’t inherently make you a bad guy. You could even be a good guy in both.

I suppose in many ways every subsequent writer has been getting it wrong in terms of what Mirror Mirror portrayed originally.

I don’t know exactly though.

That might be true. I also even could buy mirror Kirk still essentially being the same person potentially, just having grown in a very different direction under the kill or be killed mentality of the Terran Empire.

On the other hand, I had a bit of trouble believing Kira and Mirror Kira were essentially the same person.

 

[Nerys Myk]

USS Thunberg

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

But didn't Discovery throw all that out the window and say there was a genetic part of people in the MU that made them that way?