Nero's Timeship named 'Narada'

[Captain_Amasov]

According to Trekmovie.com:

http://trekmovie.com/2008/11/19/det...tar-trek-movie-toys-neros-ship-name-revealed/

The only reference to that name I could find was this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narada

"Narada is portrayed as a travelling monk with the ability to visit distant worlds or planets"

 

[GodThingFormerly]

Well, it's certainly a more inspired name than "Scimitar".

TGT

 

[Kirk1980]

Almost sounds like a mishmash of

KLATU BARADA NIKTO!

I love me some Evil Dead

 

[Timo]

...Although these references to "TrekMovie sources" are so vague that it might turn out that Narada is the name of Spock's timeship instead.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Captain_Amasov]

Well, it's certainly a more inspired name than "Scimitar".

TGT

I'm thankful that it at least sounds Romulan.

 

[Timo]

And Scimitar doesn't? (No doubt it's a translation, just like many of the TNG Klingon ship names were actually words picked from the Klingon Dictionary and could have been expressed in English if need be.)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Captain_Amasov]

And Scimitar doesn't? (No doubt it's a translation, just like many of the TNG Klingon ship names were actually words picked from the Klingon Dictionary and could have been expressed in English if need be.)

Timo Saloniemi

Not really no, at least with most other alien vessels we have either a Starfleet designation and the actual proper name of the ship or class, in Nemesis we just get Scimitar.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

And Scimitar doesn't? (No doubt it's a translation, just like many of the TNG Klingon ship names were actually words picked from the Klingon Dictionary and could have been expressed in English if need be.)

Timo Saloniemi

Not really no, at least with most other alien vessels we have either a Starfleet designation and the actual proper name of the ship or class, in Nemesis we just get Scimitar.

Hey, Scimitar was at least more creative than Big Pointy Sword Thing, if only a little.

 

[Kirk1980]

But of course, hiring those guys was a great move....purely genius.

SO much creativity!

 

[Timo]

I don't quite understand. The name and class designation for Scimitar would be one and the same, her being unique and all. And why couldn't that be the proper name of the vessel? Chancellor-elect Gowron flew around in a ship named Revenge, had the UT bothered to translate it for us. She was saved from a rebel attack by IKV Eternal Death... Why should Remans have any better taste in naming their ships?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

I don't quite understand. The name and class designation for Scimitar would be one and the same, her being unique and all. And why couldn't that be the proper name of the vessel? Chancellor-elect Gowron flew around in a ship named Revenge, had the UT bothered to translate it for us. She was saved from a rebel attack by IKV Eternal Death... Why should Remans have any better taste in naming their ships?

Timo Saloniemi

Because Scimitar is a name of human origin? A weapon unique to Earth. That'd be like the Tholians naming their flagship the Thompson Machine Gun. Tis rather silly.

 

[Timo]

Why would the scimitar be a weapon unique to Earth? It's not even a weapon unique to any particular culture of Earth, any more than the katana is - it's just a local name for a very common category of weapons. Surely the Romulans are entitled to a few single-bladed curved swords of their own!

(Indeed, didn't we see a single-bladed, curved sword in hands of one of Nero's cronies in the orbital drill fight scene in the trailer?)

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Captain_Amasov]

I'm not sure the UT would translate, for example:

Reman Viceroy: "We, are the Reman Warbird Scimitar." - Nemesis

Romulan Warbird Sub-Commander: "This is the Warbird T'met calling the Prometheus." - Message in a Bottle

It could just be the Reman's being even more dull and unimaginative as the Romulans.

 

[JoeZhang]

I don't quite understand. The name and class designation for Scimitar would be one and the same, her being unique and all. And why couldn't that be the proper name of the vessel? Chancellor-elect Gowron flew around in a ship named Revenge, had the UT bothered to translate it for us. She was saved from a rebel attack by IKV Eternal Death... Why should Remans have any better taste in naming their ships?

Timo Saloniemi

Because Scimitar is a name of human origin? A weapon unique to Earth. That'd be like the Tholians naming their flagship the Thompson Machine Gun. Tis rather silly.

A flagship built by a clone of Jean-Luc Picard who had clearly studied earth - maybe that's the reason for the name... it also means "lion's claw" and that could be how he saw the ship...

 

[Captain_Amasov]

I don't quite understand. The name and class designation for Scimitar would be one and the same, her being unique and all. And why couldn't that be the proper name of the vessel? Chancellor-elect Gowron flew around in a ship named Revenge, had the UT bothered to translate it for us. She was saved from a rebel attack by IKV Eternal Death... Why should Remans have any better taste in naming their ships?

Timo Saloniemi

Because Scimitar is a name of human origin? A weapon unique to Earth. That'd be like the Tholians naming their flagship the Thompson Machine Gun. Tis rather silly.

A flagship built by a clone of Jean-Luc Picard who had clearly studied earth - maybe that's the reason for the name... it also means "lion's claw" and that could be how he saw the ship...

While that is a possibility would he really use a name from a planet he hated, surely it would be something Reman instead.

 

[JoeZhang]

Because Scimitar is a name of human origin? A weapon unique to Earth. That'd be like the Tholians naming their flagship the Thompson Machine Gun. Tis rather silly.

A flagship built by a clone of Jean-Luc Picard who had clearly studied earth - maybe that's the reason for the name... it also means "lion's claw" and that could be how he saw the ship...

While that is a possibility would he really use a name from a planet he hated, surely it would be something Reman instead.

But I would think he'd name it that as a dig as Jean-Luc - His Scimitar was going to destroy the earth...

 

[Captain_Amasov]

A flagship built by a clone of Jean-Luc Picard who had clearly studied earth - maybe that's the reason for the name... it also means "lion's claw" and that could be how he saw the ship...

While that is a possibility would he really use a name from a planet he hated, surely it would be something Reman instead.

But I would think he'd name it that as a dig as Jean-Luc - His Scimitar was going to destroy the earth...

If he wanted a dig at Picard he could of just replicated himself some hair

 

[Blip]

ROTFL! (hmm, my coworkers are looking at me strangely...)

 

[JoeZhang]

While that is a possibility would he really use a name from a planet he hated, surely it would be something Reman instead.

But I would think he'd name it that as a dig as Jean-Luc - His Scimitar was going to destroy the earth...

If he wanted a dig at Picard he could of just replicated himself some hair

LOL - the lights go up and he's got a bit think elvis style quiff.

 

[The_Beef]

Almost sounds like a mishmash of

KLATU BARADA NIKTO!

I love me some Evil Dead

Ah, that actually was originally made famous by The Day the Earth Stood Still (the good 50s one, not the current travesty), its use in Army of Darkness was just an inside joke. Just thought I'd fill in some history there.