Who and what do you want to become starship names?

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Elizabeth Fleischmann-Aschheim

This is fascinating...but the poor woman. https://hekint.org/2017/01/30/elizabeth-fleischmann-aschheim/

 

[JonnyQuest037]

My first thought is it'd be nice to see Trek pay tribute to the severely underappreciated Gene Coon. But a USS Gene Coon would probably be too meta and cutesy, and a ship name using just his last name would be, well... very easily misunderstood.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=801871584873698&set=a.224355215958674

Another amazing story, although her last name is funny.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Iqbal Masih https://twitter.com/Morbidful/status/1671280255561093122

 

[IMC Headquarters]

Runabouts named after Maine rivers would be utterly welcome in my household.

Kennebec
Androscoggin
Penobscot
Sebasticook
Allagash

for starters...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Being a Nebraskan, I'd love a runabout USS Missouri.

Also - and this would probably work better as a civilian cargo freighter, given the namesake - I'd love an SS Edmund Fitzgerald. (In fact I once saw a fan rendering of a Starfleet freighter with that name but I forgot where it was. )

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[Orphalesion]

Which really just shows that a lot of people could do amazing things if society was structured in a way that would allow them to reach their full potential.

 

[Jayson1]

I would like to see some of the Trek actors who have died be honored with a name. Like the USS Nimoy or USS Nichols etc.

 

[Enterprise1701]

I would like to see some of the Trek actors who have died be honored with a name. Like the USS Nimoy or USS Nichols etc.

Indeed, I also respect that naming style. Star Trek: Picard did not quite go so grandly obvious, but did do a few.

Edison-class U.S.S. Harlan (NCC-52277), possibly named for the late writer Harlan Ellison
Duderstadt-class U.S.S. Trumbull (NCC-72370), named for the late VFX director Douglas Trumbull
Echelon-class U.S.S. Cole (NCC-97938), possibly named for the late graphic designer Lee Cole as well as 12 Monkeys protagonist James Cole
Gagarin-class U.S.S. Passaro (NCC-97955), named for the late modeler Fabio Passaro
Jein-class U.S.S. Gregory Jein (NCC-103145), named for the late modeler Gregory Jein

 

[Grendelsbayne]

USS Gojira

 

[somebuddyX]

Sherman Hemsley. Or that character he played.

 

[Forbin]

Ian Banks' novels have some of the best ship names:
https://qntm.org/culture

One of my faves was "Just Read the Instructions."

If you can't access the site:

Spoiler

• Consider Phlebas
  • Nervous Energy (GCU)
  • Prosthetic Conscience (GCU)
  • The Ends Of Invention (ex-Culture GSV)
  • Eschatologist (GSV; temporary name)
  • Irregular Apocalyse (GSV)
  • No More Mr Nice Guy (GSV)
  • Determinist (GSV)
  • Bora Horza Gobuchul (GSV)
  • Profit Margin (LSV)
  • Trade Surplus (ROU)
  • Revisionist (ROU)
• The Player of Games
  • Screw Loose (Clipper)
  • Flexible Demeanour (GCU)
  • Just Read The Instructions (GCU)
  • Of Course I Still Love You (GCU)
  • Limiting Factor (GOU)
  • Cargo Cult (GSV)
  • Little Rascal (GSV)
  • So Much For Subtlety (GSV)
  • Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence (GSV)
  • Youthful Indiscretion (GSV)
  • Gunboat Diplomat (LOU)
  • Zealot (dROU)
  • Kiss My Ass (Superlifter)
  • Prime Mover (Superlifter)
• Use of Weapons
  • Just Testing (GCU?)
  • Xenophobe (dROU)
  • Very Little Gravitas Indeed (GCU)
  • What Are The Civilian Applications? (GSV)
  • Congenital Optimist (GSV)
  • Size Isn't Everything (GSV)
  • Sweet and Full of Grace (GCU)
• Excession
  • Different Tan (Mountain class GCU)
  • Fate Amenable To Change (River class GCU)
  • Grey Area (GCU)
  • It's Character Forming (GCU)
  • Jaundiced Outlook (Ridge class GCU)
  • Problem Child (Troubadour class GCU)
  • Reasonable Excuse (GCU)
  • Recent Convert (GCU)
  • Tactical Grace (Escarpment class GCU)
  • Unacceptable Behaviour (GCU)
  • Steely Glint (Plains class GCV)
  • Highpoint (ulterior)
  • Shoot Them Later (eccentric; ulterior)
  • Attitude Adjuster (Killer class LOU)
  • Killing Time (Torturer class ROU)
  • Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath class dROU)
  • Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The (Plate class GSV)
  • Death and Gravity (GSV)
  • Ethics Gradient (Range class GSV)
  • Honest Mistake (GSV)
  • Limivourous (Ocean class GSV)
  • No Fixed Abode (Sabbaticaler class GSV, ex-Equator class)
  • Quietly Confident (Plate class GSV)
  • Sleeper Service (Plate class GSV)
  • Uninvited Guest (GSV)
  • Use Psychology (GSV)
  • What Is The Answer and Why? (GSV)
  • Wisdom Like Silence (Continent class GSV)
  • Yawning Angel (Range class GSV)
  • Zero Gravitas (GSV)
  • Misophist (LSV)
  • Serious Callers Only (Tundra class LSV)
  • Not Invented Here (Desert class MSV)
  • Zetetic Elench ships:
    • Appeal To Reason
    • Break Even
    • Long View
    • Peace Makes Plenty
    • Sober Counsel
    • Within Reason
  • Affront ships:
    • Kiss the Blade (battle cruiser)
    • Frightspear
    • Furious Purpose
    • Riptalon
    • Wingclipper
    • SacSlicer II
    • Xenoclast
  • Miscellaneous ships:
    • Full Refund (Empire Class MBU, Homomdan Convertcraft Vessel)
    • Charitable View (Cliff class Superlifter)
    • Just Passing Through (cruise ship)
    • Added Value
    • I Blame Your Mother
    • I Blame My Mother
    • Heavy Messing (ex-Culture)
• The State of the Art
  • Bad for Business (GSV)
  • Arbitrary (GCU)
  • Cantankerous (GCU)
  • Only Slightly Bent (GCU)
  • I Thought He Was With You (GCU)
  • Space Monster (GCU)
  • A Series Of Unlikely Explanations (GCU)
  • Big Sexy Beast (GCU)
  • Never Talk To Strangers (GCU)
  • Funny, It Worked Last Time... (GCU)
  • Boo! (GCU)
  • Ultimate Ship The Second (GCU)
  • It'll Be Over By Christmas (GCU)
  • A Ship With A View
  • Ablation
  • Arrested Development
  • Credibility Problem
  • Dramatic Exit
  • Excuses And Accusations
  • God Told Me To Do It
  • Halation Effect
  • Happy Idiot Talk
  • Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
  • Heresiarch
  • Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
  • Minority Report
  • Not Wanted On Voyage
  • Perfidy
  • Sacrificial Victim
  • Stranger Here Myself
  • Synchronize Your Dogmas
  • Thank you And Goodnight
  • The Precise Nature Of The Catastrope
  • Unwitting Accomplice
  • Undesirable Alien
  • Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
  • You Would If You Really Loved Me
  • You'll Thank Me Later
• Look to Windward
  • Winter Storm (Chelgrian)
  • Piety (Chelgrian temple ship)
  • Nuisance Value (ROU)
  • Vulgarian (Superlifter)
  • Sanctioned Parts List (GSV)
  • Resistance Is Character-Forming (VFP)
  • From the conversation:
    • All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff (OU)
    • Someone Else's Problem
    • Lacking That Small Match Temperament
    • Poke It With A Stick (GCU)
    • I Said, I've Got A Big Stick (OU; you have to say the name quietly)
    • Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
    • But Who's Counting?
    • Germane Riposte
    • We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
    • All The Same, I Saw It First
    • Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
    • Zero Credibility
    • Charming But Irrational
    • Demented But Determined
    • You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
    • Lucid Nonsense
    • Awkward Customer
    • Thorough But ... Unreliable
    • Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
    • Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
    • Conventional Wisdom
    • In One Ear
    • Fine Till You Came Along
    • I Blame The Parents
    • Inappropriate Response
    • A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
    • Lapsed Pacifist
    • Reformed Nice Guy
    • Pride Comes Before A Fall
    • Injury Time
    • Now Look What You've Made Me Do
    • Kiss This Then
  • Grey Area/Meatfucker
  • Soulhaven (Chelgrian temple ship)
  • Lasting Damage (GSV)
  • Lasting Damage I (GSV)
  • Lasting Damage II (GSV)
  • Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall (GSV)

 

[Macintosh]

Ian Banks' novels have some of the best ship names:
https://qntm.org/culture

One of my faves was "Just Read the Instructions."

If you can't access the site:

Spoiler

• Consider Phlebas
  • Nervous Energy (GCU)
  • Prosthetic Conscience (GCU)
  • The Ends Of Invention (ex-Culture GSV)
  • Eschatologist (GSV; temporary name)
  • Irregular Apocalyse (GSV)
  • No More Mr Nice Guy (GSV)
  • Determinist (GSV)
  • Bora Horza Gobuchul (GSV)
  • Profit Margin (LSV)
  • Trade Surplus (ROU)
  • Revisionist (ROU)
• The Player of Games
  • Screw Loose (Clipper)
  • Flexible Demeanour (GCU)
  • Just Read The Instructions (GCU)
  • Of Course I Still Love You (GCU)
  • Limiting Factor (GOU)
  • Cargo Cult (GSV)
  • Little Rascal (GSV)
  • So Much For Subtlety (GSV)
  • Unfortunate Conflict Of Evidence (GSV)
  • Youthful Indiscretion (GSV)
  • Gunboat Diplomat (LOU)
  • Zealot (dROU)
  • Kiss My Ass (Superlifter)
  • Prime Mover (Superlifter)
• Use of Weapons
  • Just Testing (GCU?)
  • Xenophobe (dROU)
  • Very Little Gravitas Indeed (GCU)
  • What Are The Civilian Applications? (GSV)
  • Congenital Optimist (GSV)
  • Size Isn't Everything (GSV)
  • Sweet and Full of Grace (GCU)
• Excession
  • Different Tan (Mountain class GCU)
  • Fate Amenable To Change (River class GCU)
  • Grey Area (GCU)
  • It's Character Forming (GCU)
  • Jaundiced Outlook (Ridge class GCU)
  • Problem Child (Troubadour class GCU)
  • Reasonable Excuse (GCU)
  • Recent Convert (GCU)
  • Tactical Grace (Escarpment class GCU)
  • Unacceptable Behaviour (GCU)
  • Steely Glint (Plains class GCV)
  • Highpoint (ulterior)
  • Shoot Them Later (eccentric; ulterior)
  • Attitude Adjuster (Killer class LOU)
  • Killing Time (Torturer class ROU)
  • Frank Exchange Of Views (Psychopath class dROU)
  • Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The (Plate class GSV)
  • Death and Gravity (GSV)
  • Ethics Gradient (Range class GSV)
  • Honest Mistake (GSV)
  • Limivourous (Ocean class GSV)
  • No Fixed Abode (Sabbaticaler class GSV, ex-Equator class)
  • Quietly Confident (Plate class GSV)
  • Sleeper Service (Plate class GSV)
  • Uninvited Guest (GSV)
  • Use Psychology (GSV)
  • What Is The Answer and Why? (GSV)
  • Wisdom Like Silence (Continent class GSV)
  • Yawning Angel (Range class GSV)
  • Zero Gravitas (GSV)
  • Misophist (LSV)
  • Serious Callers Only (Tundra class LSV)
  • Not Invented Here (Desert class MSV)
  • Zetetic Elench ships:
    • Appeal To Reason
    • Break Even
    • Long View
    • Peace Makes Plenty
    • Sober Counsel
    • Within Reason
  • Affront ships:
    • Kiss the Blade (battle cruiser)
    • Frightspear
    • Furious Purpose
    • Riptalon
    • Wingclipper
    • SacSlicer II
    • Xenoclast
  • Miscellaneous ships:
    • Full Refund (Empire Class MBU, Homomdan Convertcraft Vessel)
    • Charitable View (Cliff class Superlifter)
    • Just Passing Through (cruise ship)
    • Added Value
    • I Blame Your Mother
    • I Blame My Mother
    • Heavy Messing (ex-Culture)
• The State of the Art
  • Bad for Business (GSV)
  • Arbitrary (GCU)
  • Cantankerous (GCU)
  • Only Slightly Bent (GCU)
  • I Thought He Was With You (GCU)
  • Space Monster (GCU)
  • A Series Of Unlikely Explanations (GCU)
  • Big Sexy Beast (GCU)
  • Never Talk To Strangers (GCU)
  • Funny, It Worked Last Time... (GCU)
  • Boo! (GCU)
  • Ultimate Ship The Second (GCU)
  • It'll Be Over By Christmas (GCU)
  • A Ship With A View
  • Ablation
  • Arrested Development
  • Credibility Problem
  • Dramatic Exit
  • Excuses And Accusations
  • God Told Me To Do It
  • Halation Effect
  • Happy Idiot Talk
  • Helpless In The Face Of Your Beauty
  • Heresiarch
  • Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality
  • Minority Report
  • Not Wanted On Voyage
  • Perfidy
  • Sacrificial Victim
  • Stranger Here Myself
  • Synchronize Your Dogmas
  • Thank you And Goodnight
  • The Precise Nature Of The Catastrope
  • Unwitting Accomplice
  • Undesirable Alien
  • Well I Was In The Neighbourhood
  • You Would If You Really Loved Me
  • You'll Thank Me Later
• Look to Windward
  • Winter Storm (Chelgrian)
  • Piety (Chelgrian temple ship)
  • Nuisance Value (ROU)
  • Vulgarian (Superlifter)
  • Sanctioned Parts List (GSV)
  • Resistance Is Character-Forming (VFP)
  • From the conversation:
    • All Through With This Niceness And Negotiation Stuff (OU)
    • Someone Else's Problem
    • Lacking That Small Match Temperament
    • Poke It With A Stick (GCU)
    • I Said, I've Got A Big Stick (OU; you have to say the name quietly)
    • Hand Me The Gun And Ask Me Again
    • But Who's Counting?
    • Germane Riposte
    • We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine
    • All The Same, I Saw It First
    • Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
    • Zero Credibility
    • Charming But Irrational
    • Demented But Determined
    • You May Not Be The Coolest Person Here
    • Lucid Nonsense
    • Awkward Customer
    • Thorough But ... Unreliable
    • Advanced Case Of Chronic Patheticism
    • Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
    • Conventional Wisdom
    • In One Ear
    • Fine Till You Came Along
    • I Blame The Parents
    • Inappropriate Response
    • A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
    • Lapsed Pacifist
    • Reformed Nice Guy
    • Pride Comes Before A Fall
    • Injury Time
    • Now Look What You've Made Me Do
    • Kiss This Then
  • Grey Area/Meatfucker
  • Soulhaven (Chelgrian temple ship)
  • Lasting Damage (GSV)
  • Lasting Damage I (GSV)
  • Lasting Damage II (GSV)
  • Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall (GSV)

Mistake Not (My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath) is the greatest spaceship name in the history of sci-fi.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Duderstadt-class U.S.S. Trumbull (NCC-72370), named for the late VFX director Douglas Trumbull

Ah, nice. That's also my last name, so I can just pretend that's my personal Starship.

Now let me use the Google machine to see what it looks like...

EDIT: Eh, it doesn't send me in a big way, but it's still cool that it exists!

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Trumbull

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Runabouts named after Maine rivers would be utterly welcome in my household.

Kennebec
Androscoggin
Penobscot
Sebasticook
Allagash

for starters...

Red Sox fans would sure love a USS Muddy.

 

[dcm]

I want trek to move away from naming ships after people. Both real and fictional. Although mythological figures are exempt. Like Heracles and Hermes. Nothing after planets though. Too confusing. And more ship names like Enterprise, Defiant, Valiant, Etc.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

While mythological figures can't suddenly be discovered to have dark secrets in their pasts like real people, their stories can be seen/re-framed through the lens of modern sensibilities, or can be corrupted by media re-boots (certain movies/books about these figures may be remembered best and thereby tarnish the connotations of the name). Though I suppose the (still valid) virtues they were supposed to represent at the time are what count.

I would like to see more Bible names and places for ship names. Elijah, Abraham, Jerusalem, Ark, Commandments, etc.

I wonder if comic book characters/superheros/iconic characters from TV and movies will be considered worthy of starship names. So Superman, Frodo, Leia Organa, etc

 

[dcm]

While mythological figures can't suddenly be discovered to have dark secrets in their pasts like real people

None of these things bothered people before. With full knowledge public places were named after historical figures and they had statues erected in their honor for the work they did. But now it's cool and trendy to 'cancel' people, living or dead. That's very Maoist.

modern sensibilities

I hate those words. It's just an excuse to vandalize history and rewrite it, to suit the occupiers/invaders ideology. And besides the people who hold such modern sensibilities, are a very vocal minority with a large megaphone. Who do not reflect the will and beliefs of the greater public as a whole. See the whole bud light fiasco. I dont drink that stuff and even I knew who the target audience was.

I would like to see more Bible names and places for ship names. Elijah, Abraham, Jerusalem, Ark, Commandments, etc.

No. Fuck abraham. I may no longer be an edgy atheist. But I still fucking hate abraham and the damage his insane, paranoid delusions have done to this world. What god demands blood? As the greatest star fleet captain once said; "What god needs with a space ship?"

 

[Grendelsbayne]

None of these things bothered people before. With full knowledge public places were named after historical figures and they had statues erected in their honor for the work they did. But now it's cool and trendy to 'cancel' people, living or dead. That's very Maoist.

The issue is full knowledge of what and knowingly accepted by who exactly. Canceling is certainly not always right, but to suggest that means it's always wrong is ridiculous. And the idea that it's some purely modern invention is just wrong. We may have changed the criteria for what is and isn't acceptable, but there were lots of popular figures dumped into oblivion for cultural reasons through the centuries and we certainly didn't just now start taking down statues for the first time in human history.

Also, this:

No. Fuck abraham. I may no longer be an edgy atheist. But I still fucking hate abraham and the damage his insane, paranoid delusions have done to this world. What god demands blood? As the greatest star fleet captain once said; "What god needs with a space ship?"

Is exactly the same thing you're complaining about.

 

[dcm]

It's not that the criteria has changed. It's who's in control that changes the criteria. The people at the top have their own culture, beliefs and values. And if said culture, beliefs and values, don't line up, with the culture, beliefs and values of the general population. Then civil strife is all but guaranteed. Ask the british in afghanistan, india, africa, etc.