Lexington..Enterprise

[RobertScorpio]

I think its been said a zillion times that GR was going to call the ship LEXINGTON at first, and then switched to Enterprise. Has it ever been said as to why GR changed the name? And I know so much time has passed, and it really doesn't matter, but would any of you have preferred Lexington to Enterprise??

Just as Reliant was changed to DEFIANT for DS9. I actually have the toy/playmation ship for DS9's Defiant, and the decal still says RELIANT...I wonder why they changed that one as well..

Rob
Scorpio

 

[Brian]

Reliant was clearly changed to Defiant to fit the warship nature of the vessel.

Lexington to Enterprise... I prefer Enterprise. It brings imagery of "enterprising" endeavours to mind. Lexington is a place.

 

[Forbin]

Not just a place, but a place representing war and revolution, the scene of a vicous battle. Not the kind of face you want to present to a new alien race when you're proposing a peaceful alliance, and they ask what the name of your ship means.

 

[Captain X]

Actually the original name they were going to use for Defiant was Valiant, not Reliant. It's in the "Art of Star Trek".

 

[RobertScorpio]

Actually the original name they were going to use for Defiant was Valiant, not Reliant. It's in the "Art of Star Trek".

Yep..you are right..I just looked at my toy and it is Valiant not Reliant...the clouds of AGE are getting closer to me!!

Rob

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I think its been said a zillion times that GR was going to call the ship LEXINGTON at first

I thought it was supposed to be the Yorktown.

 

[captcalhoun]

^ it was. Roddenberry later opined that the 1701-A was actually the Yorktown renamed.

 

[roguephoenix]

i'm actually glad they changed valiant to defiant for ds9. valiant sounds so much better and has a certain air of majesty about it. it would have been crap for ds9 to use such a name for they crap show (not a ds9 fan).

wow you have a toy with a misprint? that's a collectors' item now. is it one of those johnny lighting things? johnny lighting ones seem to be good, solid, highly-detailed miniatures. love them.

as far as the original name for the enterprise, are you saying that the 1701-a in the movie was the yorktown just reassigned and changed names? or that they were originally going to name the ship yorktown? so it was yorktow-lexington-enterprise progression?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

i'm actually glad they changed valiant to defiant for ds9. valiant sounds so much better and has a certain air of majesty about it.

Pity, then, that almost every Star Trek ship named Valiant has met with a particularly violent and brutal end.

 

[captcalhoun]

as far as the original name for the enterprise, are you saying that the 1701-a in the movie was the yorktown just reassigned and changed names? or that they were originally going to name the ship yorktown? so it was yorktow-lexington-enterprise progression?

out of universe, Roddenberry's original name for the 1701 was Yorktown. it was changed to Enterprise.

Roddenberry then suggested after STIV that as an in-universe explanation of the apparent speed for the 1701-A's creation, that it was the USS Yorktown renamed.

Lexinton's got nothing to do with it. Scorpio's full of fail for getting the names wrong twice.

 

[pookha]

I think its been said a zillion times that GR was going to call the ship LEXINGTON at first

I thought it was supposed to be the Yorktown.

what i thought too.

 

[captcalhoun]

you're toy Valiant may not be that special, there was a Defiant-class Valiant in DS9. it may be from that episode. you should check the dates.

 

[roguephoenix]

as far as the original name for the enterprise, are you saying that the 1701-a in the movie was the yorktown just reassigned and changed names? or that they were originally going to name the ship yorktown? so it was yorktow-lexington-enterprise progression?

out of universe, Roddenberry's original name for the 1701 was Yorktown. it was changed to Enterprise.

Roddenberry then suggested after STIV that as an in-universe explanation of the apparent speed for the 1701-A's creation, that it was the USS Yorktown renamed.

Lexinton's got nothing to do with it. Scorpio's full of fail for getting the names wrong twice.

oh ok that explains it. i wasn't sure if it was in star trek or in production that it was yorktown. guess lexington was never an issue.