Naming A Starship

[Mysterion]

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The Brits also have a tendency to have a class name which not also the name of one of the ships in that class - example: the County class destroyers.

 

[STR]

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The Brits also have a tendency to have a class name which not also the name of one of the ships in that class - example: the County class destroyers.

Sure, all the ships in the class were named after counties. They also just refer to some classes by type numbers. Like the Type 42 (known as the Sheffield class elsewhere).

 

[Timo]

Naval practices really are diverse and unintuitive. Russian ship classes tend to be named after a thing that is neither the name of the first vessel (Sheffield class), nor a descriptive name for the overall naming theme (Town class), but the name of the overall construction project (say, Krechyet or Project 1143 instead of Kiev class).

So far, Starfleet hasn't shown much evidence of deviating from the first-ship-gives-name-to-entire-class system. Obvious candidates for "thematic" naming, such as Galaxy class, actually start out with USS Galaxy, instead of USS Andromeda or USS Sombrero.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[valkyrie013]

For naming conventions, The Luna class has names after moons, Titan, Luna, Etc. and Vesta so far named after the hills in rome. So maybe some start with a naming convention, and then just go left of field when they run out of hills in Rome.

As for all the Generically Offended, you'll always find names that don't quallify.. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Emporor of the moon AlGore.. Just think.. Serving on the USS Donald Trump.. HA HA!!

List of Names based on Star Trek History
Uss. Cheron.. Battle of Cheron, end of romulan war, or other war battle places, like Iwo Jima
Archer, Sato, Reed, Macfarland, etc. Enterprise Crew
Soval, V'lar, Mistral, other promenant alien race people.
Nathan Samuels, or other Fed Presidents

 

[Forbin]

I personally love the Japanese ship-naming and airplane naming systems from WWII. Very poetical.

 

[MacLeod]

. Just think.. Serving on the USS Donald Trump.. HA HA!!

There are many types of ship which require names

Carriers
Battleships
Cruisers
Garbage Scows.
etc..

 

[Admiral2]

Most countries don't GAF about consistent naming within a class. The Brits like to get cute (even to the point where all ships in a class start with the same letter), but few countries are so strict.

I don't care.

The OP asked what names we'd like to give starships. My answer was names that followed naming traditions.

I don't GAF if none of you agrees.
I don't GAF if not every ship in RL follows naming traditions.
I don't GAF if everybody else wants a completely different concept. That was the question. That was my answer, and no matter how many ship names you pull out of your asses to throw at me, it will remain my answer until entropy dissolves the universe back into the primordial chaos it came from.

 

[Forbin]

"...from which it came."

 

[Norsehound]

While I was grinding up STO for a time, I'd give my ships names from U.S. American Ironclad monitors that almost never see use otherwise. Montauk I think was the last name I used, for a Prometheus-class.

 

[Kemaiku]

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The Brits also have a tendency to have a class name which not also the name of one of the ships in that class - example: the County class destroyers.

They also have an annoying issue where for decades, ships were "deconverted" when a larger class of ship was created.

For example, all D-Class destroyers built during WWII where deconverted to F-Class frigates in the early 1950's. Same ship, armament downgraded from the main deck, just with a new coat of paint with F on the side.

Imagine starfleet doing that in the 23rd century to 22nd century ships.

 

[valkyrie013]

So I guess back on point?
Names I'd like to see in that, less Earth Centric naming would be nice, even in say a Luna Class, don't just name them with Sol System moons, Do vulcan, or Trill moons names. Even class names, a Shran class, or Sarek Class.
Yes starfleet seems Human Centric ( due to real world make up budgets) but by the 24th centery there are 150+ members of the Federation.. Most still have there own fleets, even produce some starfleet ships localy.

 

[Officer Schröder]

New: U.S.S. Planets
U.S.S. Intergalactic (for a new, modern intergalactic Federation starship)
Like: U.S.S. Discovery (really shows the purpose of the Federation)
U.S.S. Enterprise (classic Trek, of course)
Hate: U.S.S. Crazy Horse (actually excists)
U.S.S. Sherlock Holmes (you're in the wrong franchise)

 

[1001001]

New: U.S.S. Planets
U.S.S. Intergalactic (for a new, modern intergalactic Federation starship)
Like: U.S.S. Discovery (really shows the purpose of the Federation)
U.S.S. Enterprise (classic Trek, of course)
Hate: U.S.S. Crazy Horse (actually excists)
U.S.S. Sherlock Holmes (you're in the wrong franchise)

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