Why no alien names?

[Pemmer Harge]

Azetbur: "The Federation is nothing more than a homo sapiens only club."
Chang: "Present company excepted, of course."

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I always kind of assumed that ships that were made in "earth's space" were given English names, and that ships commissioned to be made in other planet's space would be given names taken from that planet's culture. So say, the Surak would have been made in Vulcan territory.

Or are all the ships for all of the Federation made in one place? That doesnt seem likely...does it?

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Not an alien name, but didn't we see somewhere, the USS Chekov?

 

[captcalhoun]

the Chekov was to have been one of the lost ships at Wolf 359, but it was changed as it was felt to be 'cute'.

 

[DevilEyes]

the Chekov was to have been one of the lost ships at Wolf 359, but it was changed as it was felt to be 'cute'.

Apparently it was spelled USS Chekhov in the episode script, which makes more sense.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

In one DS9 episode there was also an exotic sounding name, I believe it was the USS Yu Essess

Ulysses?

 

[USS Excelsior]

No!

 

[hellsgate]

Because, (for me,) there's rarely the appearance of a non-Starfleet "home guard" ship from Tellar or another Founder-world in TMP/TNG movies or somehow approved for Pocket Books' covers or even the "Strange New Worlds" anthology...once we start seeing something like that more often, then I'll be happy to see more non-Terran "U.S.S. (insert alien name here)" in Trek Lit / Fan Fic.

 

[nx1701g]

Alien names?

Where's the USS Al-Rasheed, or the USS Deng Xiao Peng, or the USS Angus McTavish, or the USS Mahat McKote.........

There's a Sarajevo on Enterprise. Yeah, I realize it's only one ship, but I'm too lazy to think of more now (Yamato in TNG would be another one)

The Sarajevo was also mentioned in DS9's Season 5 as a vessel missing in the Gamma Quadrant.