Oh boy, not this again.
Spoilers The Strange New Worlds Starship Thread™
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Yep.Oh boy, not this again.
It's a place you want to visit, not a character you want to hang with.
Need to save this for future use.Oh boy, not this again.
Good grief, I never knew this was contentious but apparently it is.
I think it's one of those things where people can have a difference of opinion but no one can be wrong.
Maybe. As such, it's one of those points of view I struggle with making sense of.
Why...?
The Human Race has been personifying inanimate objects since the dawn of the written word.
It's just something that people do.
Humans do lots of things I don't understand.
I guess that's a decent point. I mean, as an example, in the TV series My Mother The Car; Yes the car was a character.
(ETA: Fixed a typo)
What's a nother?I guess that's a decent point. I mean, as an example, in the TV series My Nother The Car; Yes the car was a character.
I once had a story idea where Geordi be would tied to the ship's systems via his VISOR.Oh boy, not this again.
These threads remind me of a long lost bit of fanart I saw once. It was the ceiling cat meme, except it was Keenser and he was catching Scotty in the act of enjoying himself over his technical manuals.
But done in a cartoon style so cute.
There. I gave you that mental image and you have to live with it now.
But done in a cartoon style so cute.
There. I gave you that mental image and you have to live with it now.
There are loads of theories as to why ships are called "she", ranging from the Latin for "ship" being the feminine noun "navis"; the notion that ships were historically dedicated to goddesses (I'm seeing this as more anecdotal); the idea that a ship protects its crew inside itself; and finally, the famous quote from US Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz: “A ship is always known as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”
^ In The Hunt for Red October (the novel, not the film), Tom Clancy says that using the female pronoun for ships is an American thing. I'm guessing this is true, as Clancy was always very thorough in his research.
(he also says that the Russians refer to their ships in the male form, and the intelligence community refers to ships from any nation as "it".)
(he also says that the Russians refer to their ships in the male form, and the intelligence community refers to ships from any nation as "it".)
In the present day, I would agree. Historically, it's been a Western civilisation thing. There are exceptions, of course.
Why has the red stripe and logo on the secondary hull been turned from the original painted decals in to a physical feature? Is it now a hidden defensive weapon which can be deployed in emergency situations… or is it the latest development in warp technology, perhaps a way of injecting spores from the mycelium network directly in to the warp core for that little extra kick when the Enterprise needs a jump start?
We get it.
Amazing.
I still don't care.
Because it's not a character to me. The whole world could say it was and I would still say "No."
IDIC: not just for merchandising any more.
Good! (Finally
) I guess "ship = character" joins the ranks of "money or not" and "military or not" XD
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