USS Grissom - why?
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(Raises eyebrow) There are always possibilities.
When a writer names a ship or a planet after his pet or grandmother or old car, we readily pretend that it must refer to some future space hero instead. Why not apply the same standard to this stuff? It has to be granted that other Oberths commemorate scientists and engineers rather than space pilots...Although some apparently venture off the space theme altogether.
As a thought exercise, what are the odds that Virgil Grissom would be dead by fiery misadventure in the Trek universe? Their space program moved at an even faster pace than ours. Would that have meant more deaths, due to the haste - or fewer, due to the fact that they were proceeding with better technology to begin with (Henry Starling's future piracy, whatever the genetically engineered supergeniuses came up with, what Quark possibly left behind etc.) ?
Timo Saloniemi
When a writer names a ship or a planet after his pet or grandmother or old car, we readily pretend that it must refer to some future space hero instead. Why not apply the same standard to this stuff? It has to be granted that other Oberths commemorate scientists and engineers rather than space pilots...Although some apparently venture off the space theme altogether.
As a thought exercise, what are the odds that Virgil Grissom would be dead by fiery misadventure in the Trek universe? Their space program moved at an even faster pace than ours. Would that have meant more deaths, due to the haste - or fewer, due to the fact that they were proceeding with better technology to begin with (Henry Starling's future piracy, whatever the genetically engineered supergeniuses came up with, what Quark possibly left behind etc.) ?
Timo Saloniemi
Timo needs to start shaving with Occam™ brand razors. 
You know, Spock never said that. He said "There are always alternatives" in "The Galileo Seven".
The Saratoga also seems to be cursed. The one in TVH got damaged by the space probe and the DS9 Saratoga (Registry NCC-31911) got destroyed by the Borg.
If they try really hard...
He was? That's news to me...
He was the communications officer on the Reliant in TWOK. Pretty sure he wasn't in TSFS.
No, I didn't see him either...
Several different ships called Valiant have met with horrible fates:
First one destroyed at Eminiar ("A Taste Of Armageddon"), another one was the ship full of Red Squad cadets that got iced by the Dominion on DS9.
The Oberth-class ship in Generations was also called Valiant. And since yet ANOTHER Valiant appeared in Nemesis, something bad must have happened to the Oberth version as well! So that makes at least three ships that got blown away somehow.
^There was also the earlier SS Valiant that was ordered destroyed by its captain after it crossed the galactic barrier and a crewman turned into a super-being ("Where No Man Has Gone Before").
My bad, I posted before thinking. A couple vodka tonics will do that to you.
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