Oh I don't know - I had a go the other night and quite enjoyed it - I do write but only non-fiction, it was quite fun to do something creative. I think the human-targ bestiality put some people off.
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The U.S.S. Constitution NCC-1700 is named for "Old Ironsides" the U.S.S. Constitution (1797). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution
the ship's named for the moon.
*walks off muttering in shock at the idea of naming a ship for Miranda rights...*
*walks off muttering in shock at the idea of naming a ship for Miranda rights...*
Sounds like a good possibility for an in-universe idea, but for an out-universe one, not sure. Christopher, I defer to your judgement. My Shakespeare's a little rusty these days - work in an unrelated field will do that. The closest I get to Shakespeare is the language some of the leases seem to be written in.
No, the ST Encyclopedia confirms that it's "[n]amed for Prospero's daughter, a character in William Shakespeare's last play, The Tempest." Of course, as I mentioned above, the moon is also named for the Shakespeare character.
(Though the "last play" bit is in error; according to my Riverside Shakespeare, it was followed by three other plays, two of which survive. But those three are known or believed to have been collaborations with other playwrights.)
I'm fairly certain that the name "Avenger Class" was a creation of fan blueprints. (And one I always hated because it sounded far too militaristic.) To the best of my knowledge, TWOK never established a class designation for the Reliant, even in behind-the-scenes material.
Interesting. do you know when was it first designated Miranda-class then?
MA says that it was the TNG art department that first came up with the class name, and used it in on-screen material. The Encyclopedia then used the class name as well.
Wasn't the Miranda class named for its first captain, who wore an enormous fruit covered hat?
That's right. It's a TNG coinage. I distinctly remember being pleased when I first heard it and grateful to the TNG staff for coming up with a less bellicose name for the class.
Over the years, fans have claimed that the Avenger class name comes from the notes of Mike Minor, but I have never seen this information verified by a reliable source.
The majority of the ships that we had seen up to that time, or mentioned in dialog, have been named for naval ships. So it was great that the TNG art department began to move away from this naming convention.
I have always wondered if the starship Reliant was named for the Plymouth Reliant a car that was in production when Ricardo Mantalban was employed as a spokesman for the Chrysler Corporation.
The majority of the ships that we had seen up to that time, or mentioned in dialog, have been named for naval ships. So it was great that the TNG art department began to move away from this naming convention.
I have always wondered if the starship Reliant was named for the Plymouth Reliant a car that was in production when Ricardo Mantalban was employed as a spokesman for the Chrysler Corporation.
And I love that kind of naming convention.
And most fans or viewers never tell the difference.
It's amazing how many Starfleet (or other ST) vessels share the names of Chrysler Corporation cars. Dodge has Aries and Intrepid (and Avenger if you want to count that), Plymouth has Horizon, Reliant, Valiant, and Voyager, and AMC had the Eagle and Hornet. Makes me wonder if Chrysler somehow evolved into Starfleet.
I guess they must have gotten that bailout after all...
On Avenger - I can kind of see how the name would have stuck in fandom. In TWoK Reliant looks leaner and meaner than Enterprise, giving many the perception that perhaps it was meant to be a more aggressive defense-purposed class of starship than the Constitution class ships had ben.
YMMV.
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TrekkerGuy: Never wait for a novel to come out. Blaze your own trail. Lord knows that writers in the pro field haven't done spectacular work keeping up with canon & vice versa. Just write for the sake of the love of the genre. If not keep a list of other never-before-seen ship-names / registries you can plausibly attach to a canon ship-class or a canon refit, with a "suffix" like "U.S.S. Zaire-C", "U.S.S. Mandela-B", "U.S.S. Vonnegut-D", "U.S.S. Zimbabwe-E", etc.
The Marketing Department at Chrysler Corporation must believe that motoring is a war-like activity and motorists battle on the roads.
And thank you for your support.
From what evidence do you make that assumption?
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