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What people, deities, planets, etc need a starship named for them?

Enterprise1701

Enterprise1701

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So what real-life/in-universe historical figures, deities, celestial bodies, physical phenomena, etc need a Starfleet starship (class) named for them? And although I can't and won't enforce such a rule, I mean that starships in random mass listings in RPG modules, video games, etc. can be used here but starships in novels, etc cannot. And let's try to limit the starships to about the late 24th century since there's a general like for Star Trek main cast characters and starships are generally not named for living persons. Here is my starting 5:

Amaterasu (the Japanese sun deity)
Edwin Hubble (the guy with the famous space telescope named for him)
James Webb (the guy whose eponymous space telescope will replace the Hubble telescope)
Quaoar (Kuiper Belt object in the Sol System; may qualify as a dwarf planet; named for a Native American deity)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (y'all should know who he is)
 
Enterprise1701 said:
Martin Luther King, Jr. (y'all should know who he is)
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USS Luther. The person the right Reverend King was named after, Martin Luther. One of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation.

USS Ochoa. Doctor Ellen Lauri Ochoa, the first female Hispanic astronaut .

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So in-universe is ok?

The USS Sarek (or a Vulcan ship)
The USS Data
The USS Kirk
A Keldon-class Cardassian ship, The Damar
 
I'm toying with the idea of the USS Pawnee, named after the Native American tribe noted for their rudimentary astronomy.

And virgin sacrifices...
 
I figure if you did something so amazing that your name is still being mentioned, talked about, and honored over 200+ years after your death, you probably deserve a ship named after you.
 
Whenever I play a game where you can name your own ships, I always have a USS Helios in there somewhere.
 
I'd say Roddenberry, but that might cause the universe to collapse into itself and disappear.

Here are a few, in no particular order. Apologies if these have already been used in a story or on screen:

Einstein
Newton
Kepler
Fermi
Franklin
Bleriot
Armstrong
Wright
Kennedy

If his political ties had not been what they turned out to be, I would have added Von Braun.
 
USS Dave
USS Bill
USS Tom
USS Joe
USS Bruce
USS Lee
USS Bruce Lee

That should about do it...
 
For awhile there, I relied very heavily on Pacific Northwest place names: The Puyallup, the Duwamish, the Snoqualmie, etc. But I think I've used up most of the good ones by now. :)
 
More serious, mountains are a pretty good source of names (many of which also bear the names of deities or people):

Mount Tai
Mount Song
Makala
Kamet
Kedarnath
Garrin
Sabalan
Sara Sara
Solo
Escorial
El Morado
El Toro
San Valentin
Darwin
Fitz Roy
McKinley
Logan
Vancouver
Hubbard
Chamberlin
Odin
Washington
Keele
Tanaga
Uhuru
Kiyanja
Mount Elgon
Kilimanjaro
Fuji
Karasawa
Kuma
Jonen
 
What about figures from the milieu of Star Trek's own fictional canon?

Emory Erickson
Pyong Ko
Maxwell Forrest
Kazanga
Sitar
Klarc-Tarn-Droth
Jackson Roykirk
 
I was going to say there should be an Archer, but I think one was mentioned in Nemesis. You could throw in several of the ENT people as options, T'Pol or Shran.

As for real life, in a time of war how can you not have the:

USS Michael Bay

What it does might not make much sense but it definitely knows how to blow shit up!
 
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