? USS ?

[C.E. Evans]

Maybe the Kings and Queens of the UK will still reign in the 24th century, but surely only over England and maybe Wales and Scotland, not over Starfleet. The starships would not be sent out in their name.

It would be just an honorific, a nod more towards the Old British Navy more so than the British monarchy. In the time of the Federation, "HMS" might mean something else or perhaps even nothing at all.

 

[BillJ]

United Star Ship. Just sounds the best to my ear.

 

[1001001]

The JJ-verse is noncanonical.

Sure it is.

Just a different canon than the prime universe (after the incursion).

 

[The Wormhole]

Maybe the Kings and Queens of the UK will still reign in the 24th century, but surely only over England and maybe Wales and Scotland, not over Starfleet. The starships would not be sent out in their name.

They could have easily thought up some space age meaning for HMS like they did USS.

 

[Tuskin38]

The JJ-verse is noncanonical.

That’s not true at all

 

[fireproof78]

The JJ-verse is noncanonical.

That's...not how this works.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

In my Head Canon, USS stands for:

UFP (United Federation of Planets)
StarFleet
StarShip

or

UFP (United Federation of Planets)
StarFleet
StarBase

As for what NCC stands for, that depends on when you're using it & in what context:
1) During the paper work for authorizing resource allocation to build said ship, NCC means this.
Naval
Construction
Contract

2) During construction of the vessel, the NCC on the physical hull and internal equipment means this.
Naval
Construction
Code

3) Upon construction completion & certification, the usage of NCC changes to this for IFF/’Registry Purposes’ on the Digital Side when piloting a vessel in space.
Navigational
Contact
Code

 

[Set Harth]

The JJ-verse is noncanonical.

 

[BillJ]

The JJ-verse is noncanonical.

Does it really matter? Does something being "canon" somehow make it better? It is very weird where I see fandom putting canon ahead of good storytelling.

 

[kkt]

Does it really matter? Does something being "canon" somehow make it better? It is very weird where I see fandom putting canon ahead of good storytelling.

And the JJverse is neither.

If he wanted to tell a science fiction story that was almost entirely UNlike Star Trek, he should have made up his own world and characters.

 

[BillJ]

And the JJverse is neither.

If he wanted to tell a science fiction story that was almost entirely UNlike Star Trek, he should have made up his own world and characters.

I found it very much like Star Trek.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yeah, even as someone who doesn't care for those movies very much, I still recognize they are very much Star Trek.

 

[fireproof78]

Some of the best Star Trek that I still enjoy. Entertaining, philosophical, and something that still makes me cry.

If that's not Star Trek then I'm not sure I want to watch Star Trek...

 

[1001001]

I found it very much like Star Trek.

Exactly.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

Some of the best Star Trek that I still enjoy. Entertaining, philosophical, and something that still makes me cry.

If that's not Star Trek then I'm not sure I want to watch Star Trek...

Everybody likes good TREK.....while other franchise creators have been inspired by ''lesser'' TREKs. Case in point:

In the new Marvel-history book MCU, Kevin Feige revealed that his steady insertion of humor in ultra-dramatic Marvel movies was actually inspired by the campfire scene in THE FINAL FRONTIER.

Now back to the ship while we warp our noggins around that.

 

[fireproof78]

Everybody likes good TREK.....while other franchise creators have been inspired by ''lesser'' TREKs. Case in point:

In the new Marvel-history book MCU, Kevin Feige revealed that his steady insertion of humor in ultra-dramatic Marvel movies was actually inspired by the campfire scene in THE VOYAGE HOME.

Now back to the ship while we warp our noggins around that.

Ok...

Seems completely irrelevant to my point. I don't care what inspires a completely unrelated franchise.

 

[1001001]

Seems completely irrelevant to my point. I don't care what inspires a completely unrelated franchise.

Exactly.

 

[Arpy]

Interesting point about it being NCC, not N.C.C. Given that it is U.S.S., not USS. Maybe it’s an alien word or name — the name of the individual who came up with the numbering system? Mr. T’. O. NCC.

Or it could be an abbreviation anyway, in which case I like:

United (Federation of Planets)
Star(fleet)
(Star)ship
…to fit with canon,

…and maybe something like:
Nikopoulos, ch’Thane, & Carrgh

…the Human, Andorian, and Tellarite who came up with the numbering system or who were the first triumvirate in charge of doing so.

 

[at Quark's]

I'll go for Unregistered Space Ship (1701-D, for example), even though I know what the canon answer is

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Interesting point about it being NCC, not N.C.C. Given that it is U.S.S., not USS.

How we write acronyms has changed in style over the years.
At one point, we used to put the dots in between the letters.

L.A.S.E.R.: ("Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation")

then it changed again to

LASER

Now, many people don't even bother to capitalize and it's become

Laser

Which is awfully confusing IMO (especially to those who don't know what the acronym is or that the word should be an acronym).

I prefer the first two methods over the 3rd method.

The 1st method with dots in between should be the "Formal Method" of writing an Acronym.

The 2nd method where you just only include capitals should be the lazy colloquial way of writing a Acronym.