Help me name a Starfleet science vessel

[kitsune]

I also like the Marcus suggestion. Ship's motto: "Scientists are always pawns of the military."

Would the USS Carol Marcus have the motto: "Can I cook, or can't I?"

USS Morn or USS Riva
motto: "..."

 

[sbk1234]

I can't remember the last names: U.S.S. Sheldon, or U.S.S. Leonard, or U.S.S. Cuthrapali(sp?)

 

[C.E. Evans]

You may want to go a different way and not name it after a scientist. Just a thought.

Agreed. Some science vessels can also double as deep-space exploration vessels, scout ships, or even tactical intelligence-gathering vessels in a pinch. I've seen the name Pathfinder used for a Nova-class science ship in at least a half-dozen fanfics here and there...

My suggestions:
USS Lucasian (And no, it isn't named after George Lucas for any lil' Jedi out there)
USS Farsight
USS Telescope (yes, I'm serious)
USS Outrider
USS Hubble

 

[EmperorTiberius]

USS Tesla would be perfect.

 

[The Badger]

USS Newton
USS Copernicus
USS Darwin
USS Bohr
USS Planck
USS Dawkins
USS Van Allen
USS Plait (after Phil Plait, of http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/)
USS Schrodinger
USS Penrose

 

[Zulu Romeo]

USS Gunther von Hagens

 

[hellsgate]

I'd go a bit non-contemporary for a 2380's to 24XX period science vessel. Tell me more about the ship. Is it a variant / retrofit / kitbash / Starfleet Museum "Mothball Fleet" relaunch of a known canon vessel?

• U.S.S. Nairobi
• U.S.S. Kenya
• U.S.S. Vonnegut
• U.S.S. Damascus
• U.S.S. Israel
• U.S.S. Geneva
• U.S.S. Oslo (as in "The Oslo Accords".)
• U.S.S. Mandela

Tell me more about this fan fic you're setting-up

 

[kitsune]

I'd go a bit non-contemporary for a 2380's to 24XX period science vessel. Tell me more about the ship. Is it a variant / retrofit / kitbash / Starfleet Museum "Mothball Fleet" relaunch of a known canon vessel?

Tell me more about this fan fic you're setting-up

The ship will look like this John Eaves design: http://i42.tinypic.com/2e6g3sl.jpg

It will be a newly-built vessel, similar to Oberth and Nova classes in purpose.

I plan to edit the drawing to have a higher registry number, more escape pods, and larger windows to be consistent with the size of the escape pods.

The crew complement will probably be in the 100 range, including a few families and civilian scientists.

 

[sbk1234]

Of all these, U.S.S. Tesla resonates best to my ear. For what that's worth.

 

[Anwar]

USS Avicenna

Or would that work better for one of their Medical Ships?

 

[hellsgate]

kitsune: Just from a technical standpoint, wouldn't it be easier to salvage an older vessel with as little necessary new construction as possible? Especially after the pasting all the races / powers took from The Dominion?

I wouldn't go with a new ship, personally. John Eaves ~is~ amazing, I personally worship the guy (right along with Atolm of SciFi-Meshes.Com)

But in this instance, I'd go with a salvaged starship. The Federation & the Alpha Quadrant Alliance needs personnel, eyes and ears out there on the frontier, protecting colonies on all sides of the old "Neutral Zones" ASAP.

Brand new ships just aren't cost effective that way, time or material-wise in lean times.

I'd go with a TMP-era ship with upgraded amenities (holosuites, diplomatic rating, readjusted warp scale, replicators, LCARS, et al.)

My recommendation is a 'Loknar II-Class' (see 'U.S.S. Phobos' by Kevin Riley) or an upgraded 'Bonaventure-Class'.

http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eady1971/cruiser_bonaventure.jpg

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/frigate_loknar_upg3.jpg

Plus, it makes sense from a (low probability) of First Contact perspective. You're a hundred times less likely to piss off the neighbors if you're not bristling with "All Good Things" style tech.

 

[JonnyBoy]

How about:

U.S.S. Asimov
U.S.S. Brahms
U.S.S. Schmitt (first Scientist on the Moon)
U.S.S. McAuliff (First Teacher in Astronaut corps, died in the Challenger accident.)

 

[kitsune]

kitsune: Just from a technical standpoint, wouldn't it be easier to salvage an older vessel with as little necessary new construction as possible?

I think you may have misunderstood. Although John Eaves designed it to be a holoship concept for Insurrection, I'm pretending the class was specifically designed to be a science vessel a few decades after TNG. So it's not about reconstructing a holoship to be a science vessel or anything like that. Unless you meant the Oberths could be upgraded. But I tend to think after 120 years (the Oberths were in service as early as the 2280s), their inneficiencies and heavy maintenance requirements would warrant outright replacement with more state-of-the-art hardware.

Especially after the pasting all the races / powers took from The Dominion?

I expect Starfleet to resume exploratory projects by that time, and the Oberths will likely be on their last legs by then and badly in need of replacing.

Plus, it makes sense from a (low probability) of First Contact perspective. You're a hundred times less likely to piss off the neighbors if you're not bristling with "All Good Things" style tech.

It won't be armed as well as a heavy cruiser. Just dinky little phasor strips. It will have far more probes aboard than torpedoes.

 

[Skywalker]

You could always just make up a fictional scientist, too. Maybe the first Vulcan to break the warp barrier, or the first Andorian to prove gravity's existence, etc. Or just a human scientist who emerged after the 20th or 21st century.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

USS Socrates
USS Plato
USS Aristotle
USS Galen
USS Anaxagoras
USS Phaedo
USS Iliad
USS Odyssey
USS Homer
USS Pythagoras
USS Halo

that's all i got

 

[Vanyel]

Did I miss it? or has no said the USS Edison? or the USS da Vinci?

 

[Myasishchev]

USS Von Braun. Hey, he was a scientist.

 

[kitsune]

Did I miss it? or has no said the USS Edison? or the USS da Vinci?

The da Vinci would more likely be called Leonardo. da Vinci just means "from Vinci".

I suppose one could do a theme...
USS Michaelangelo
USS Leonardo
USS Donatello
USS Raphael

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Don't forget
USS Oroku Saki
USS Hamato Yoshi

or how about just
USS Yoshi
USS Miyamoto
USS Uematsu
USS Tiberius

also, i always liked
USS Merlin
USS Maverick (Top Gun, anyone?)

 

[Nerys Myk]

USS Thomas Dolby. Motto Is Caecus Mihi Per Scientia