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Who was naming Planets after Jonathan Archer?

Guy Gardener

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He had nothing to do with the hundred or so High Schools across North America who took his name in celebration of how wicked supercool the guy who drove the Xindi back was...

But the Defiant's Database from in a Mirror Darkly claimed that two planets were named after John. Surely one of those was the Brave new World planet which turned an innocent camping trip into the last days of the Beatles. Such a big deal was made of Archer ducking out of the resposibility of having a Nebula named after him in First Flight, that and from the detail diven and how slowly T'Pol was talking while explaining that explorers got to name stuff they found, as if John had no experience as a cartographer and missed that day at Flight School during which this perk was explained.

If Archer was stamping his name on all the stuff he discovered which didn't seem to have a previous claim, when did he do it? Or was it all posthumousness by others? You would think surely that given who was manning the scanners, and on duty and handling the personal aspect of exploration, that many planets would have been named after many of the different Crewmen aboard Enterprise during it's ten year mission to extend the boarders of human uncerstanding?

Mayweathers landing?

Tuckertania?

T'Polopolis?

Satoland?

Cutler World?

New Reed?

Phloxitopia?

Animals mark territory by pissing y'know?
 
If Alexander named a city after his horse, Archer can name a planet after his dog. There's a Planet Porthos out there somewhere, populated by adventure-loving canines.

I believe Archer IV was suggested to be the world from "Strange New World"... which means the planets were being named either by Archie himself, or his admirers.
 
I can imagine the world named after Porthos... "Beam my beagle planet side. Let him pee, show that planet who's boss, then we're moving on."

And the Porthos is super intelligent theory is excellent, if it wasn't treading on the story of Lord Nibbler from Futurama and Lockheed the Dragon from the X-Men before that.
 
I'm pretty sure the Federation Council has something to say in the planet naming department. Granted Archer was a pioneer in Earth's deep space exploration efforts, I would assume a naming in tribute would happen sometime AFTER his death. It's creepy to name such things after a living person.
 
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