USS Cortez? Really?

[StarryEyed]

Never mind all this political stuff, I want the USS Jeter, USS Posada, USS Pettitte, USS Rivera...

Great names for ships the Federation purchased from the Ferengi at way above retail.

Reminds me of some more great names: USS Sour Grapes, USS 27, USS Bucky Dent, USS Aaron Boone, and of course USS Bill Buckner.

USS Curt Schilling (2004), USS David Ortiz (2004), USS Bill Mueler (2004) and of course, USS Rivera (2001 WS, 2004 ALCS).

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And of course the USS At Least We Only Do The 'Boston Sucks' Chant When The Sox Are Actually, You Know, PLAYING, In That Particular Game, Unlike Some Teams We Could Mention.

 

[StarryEyed]

And of course the USS At Least We Only Do The 'Boston Sucks' Chant When The Sox Are Actually, You Know, PLAYING, In That Particular Game, Unlike Some Teams We Could Mention.

The Yankees weren't playing in the 2004 ALCS?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And of course the USS At Least We Only Do The 'Boston Sucks' Chant When The Sox Are Actually, You Know, PLAYING, In That Particular Game, Unlike Some Teams We Could Mention.

The Yankees weren't playing in the 2004 ALCS?

I'm talking generalities, here. I mean, I've heard Red Sox fans do the "Yankees Suck" cheer even when the Yankees are not, technically, in the game, and there's not even a single Yankee fan IN THE STADIUM. I mean, what's the point of that? The impact of a chant against one's rival is severely diminished to the point of irrelevancy when the rival is not around to hear it...

Like I said, we only do this when we're actually playing the Sox. Or, God forbid, an unsuspecting fan wanders into our section wearing Sox gear.

 

[Sci]

Personally, I'd like to see the U.S.S. I'ma Kill You With My Bigass Guns, Mothafucka.

 

[StarryEyed]

And of course the USS At Least We Only Do The 'Boston Sucks' Chant When The Sox Are Actually, You Know, PLAYING, In That Particular Game, Unlike Some Teams We Could Mention.

The Yankees weren't playing in the 2004 ALCS?

I'm talking generalities, here. I mean, I've heard Red Sox fans do the "Yankees Suck" cheer even when the Yankees are not, technically, in the game, and there's not even a single Yankee fan IN THE STADIUM. I mean, what's the point of that? The impact of a chant against one's rival is severely diminished to the point of irrelevancy when the rival is not around to hear it...

So Yankees fans never do this when we're losing to the Royals. Right.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So Yankees fans never do this when we're losing to the Royals. Right.

Why would we even be there in the first place? Think about it.

 

[StarryEyed]

So Yankees fans never do this when we're losing to the Royals. Right.

Why would we even be there in the first place? Think about it.

So Yankees fans don't watch nationally televised games involving the Red Sox? Sure.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So Yankees fans don't watch nationally televised games involving the Red Sox?

No, not really. Why should we bother?

Would you watch a Yankees game if the Sox weren't involved?

 

[StarryEyed]

So Yankees fans don't watch nationally televised games involving the Red Sox?

No, not really. Why should we bother?

Would you watch a Yankees game if the Sox weren't involved?

Of course - for the same reason you would watch a Red Sox game if the Yankees were not involved. The two teams have been each other's greatest threat for most of the past decade. Of course fans of one team will be interested in the outcomes of games involving the other team.

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Personally, I'd like to see the U.S.S. I'ma Kill You With My Bigass Guns, Mothafucka.

Second ship of the "I'm gonna git you sucka" class.

 

[T'Girl]

... and of course, USS Rivera.

Geraldo ?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

USS Tupac.

The starship that gets destroyed by a Romulan ambush and then continues to serve in Starfleet for another fifteen years after the fact.

 

[CoveTom]

Jumping into this thread late, and kind of an aside, but I've never liked this trend for naming ships after people, either in Star Trek or the real life present. I'm sick of aircraft carriers, for example, being named after presidents.

They didn't do this in TOS (except for the shuttlecraft). You had ships like Enterprise, Defiant, Constitution, Constellation, Yorktown, Intrepid, etc. By the time of TNG, it seems like every flippin' ship was named after a person. Similarly, seems like every ship the U.S. Navy commissions these names has to be named after some person. Blech.

I mean, really, which name better portrays a sense of majesty, prestige, and power? U.S.S. Enterprise or U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Would you watch a Yankees game if the Sox weren't involved?

Of course - for the same reason you would watch a Red Sox game if the Yankees were not involved.

No, I wouldn't.

I have been to a couple such games in person, but that was just because I wanted to visit Fenway. I didn't particularly care who was playing.

 

[captcalhoun]

Personally, I'd like to see the U.S.S. I'ma Kill You With My Bigass Guns, Mothafucka.

Second ship of the "I'm gonna git you sucka" class.

USS Badass Muthafucka

 

[Crazy Eddie]

And then in the 25th century, the return to service of the M5 multitronic unit sees several starships named after special numbers.

Enterprise is replaced for the first time by the flagship "USS-Pi, NCC-3.14159265358979323846264338327950288..." With its primary weapon as a Logic Torpedo that forces its target to compute the rest of its NCC number to the final digit.

Of course, the situation becomes quite confusing after an alamring number of starships are inexplicably named "USS Fortyseven"

 

[Myasishchev]

Personally, I'd like to see the U.S.S. I'ma Kill You With My Bigass Guns, Mothafucka.

USS English Motherfucker, Do You Speak It. It would work on a couple of levels.

 

[Jonas Grumby]

... and of course, USS Rivera.

Geraldo ?

Maybe he does something very historic within the next few years.

 

[GSchnitzer]

I've never liked this trend for naming ships after people, either in Star Trek or the real life present. They didn't do this in TOS (except for the shuttlecraft). You had ships like Enterprise, Defiant, Constitution, Constellation, Yorktown, Intrepid, etc.

Well, they also had the starship Farragut, the starship Hood, and the starship Potemkin. Those are, I believe, actual people.