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Author Topic: Nitpicking.  (Read 8539 times)
Dr. Lazarus
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« Reply #45 on: January 21, 2008, 03:04:09 PM »
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They're all socialists?

It's certainly possible, but I tried to make a purely random selection  .
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« Reply #46 on: January 22, 2008, 05:30:36 AM »
I know it was a joke list, but a lot of those names would actually be pretty good...

USS Commonwealth

USS S. Hawking (though in the Star Trek timeline he may have gotten mixed up in the ugenics wars, which would probably make him a bad choice to name a ship after)

USS R. Dawkins (though, again, in the Star Trek timeline he may have been invovled in the ugenics wars, which would probably make him a bad choice)

USS Magna Carta (given that it was such a pivotal document)

USS Oxford (this has long been one of my favorite names for a Nebula class)

USS Cambridge

USS Shakespeare

USS A. C. Doyle

USS C. Dickens (you left off the 's')

USS J. Austen

USS B. Russel

USS A. Smith

USS I. Newton

USS H. G. Wells

USS A. G. Bell

USS J. C. Maxwell

USS D. H. Lawrence (you spelled it wrong)

USS C. Darwin

USS A. Turing

USS F. Crick (though again, he may have gotten mixed up in the ugenics wars in the Trek timeline)

USS T. B. Lee

Did I miss anything? cool
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« Reply #47 on: January 22, 2008, 06:07:26 AM »
Sorry for this  LOL
Eugenics 
Darn it, I hate when my ob-com-esque mind does that
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« Reply #48 on: January 22, 2008, 10:08:15 AM »
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Sorry for this  LOL
Eugenics 

Oh, close enough....
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« Reply #49 on: January 22, 2008, 03:02:35 PM »
Yeah you're right, many of them do fit in with the way Starfleet ships are usually named, and it's probably no surprise that the suitable ones would be the names of prominent people, since it seems to be a common way of naming a ship, e.g. the modern Nimitz class aircraft carriers are named after US presidents (I think, except for the Enterprise of course, that's named after... I'm not sure what it's named after!).
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« Reply #50 on: January 23, 2008, 01:48:48 AM »
Quote from: Dr. Lazarus on January 22, 2008, 03:02:35 PM
Yeah you're right, many of them do fit in with the way Starfleet ships are usually named, and it's probably no surprise that the suitable ones would be the names of prominent people, since it seems to be a common way of naming a ship, e.g. the modern Nimitz class aircraft carriers are named after US presidents (I think, except for the Enterprise of course, that's named after... I'm not sure what it's named after!).

Enterprise ain't a Nimitz.  That explains the discrepancy.

*update*

Upon checking, it's actually Enterprise-class, a one-off design.

And its name is continuing the lineage of at least six ships in the past, when names were chosen more arbitrarily.
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« Reply #51 on: January 23, 2008, 08:52:16 AM »
Also, the definition (or, at least, one definition) of "Enterprise" is "a purposeful or industrious undertaking", putting "Enterprise" in the same league as names like "Endeavour" or "Illustrious"...
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« Reply #52 on: January 23, 2008, 03:20:20 PM »
Ships have never been named "arbitrarily". A lot of thought has always gone into such things, until recently. Names like Enterprise are very traditional, where the name is based on ideals, including Enterprise, Victory, Endeavour, Hope... Some such names have fallen out of use, but others, like Enterprise, are still there.
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« Reply #53 on: January 23, 2008, 09:29:33 PM »
Yep. Enterprise. Long live Capitalism!
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« Reply #54 on: January 23, 2008, 10:17:46 PM »
I'll second that. Even though at this rate we're gonna end up with our own Ferengi Alliance by the 24th century.  Azn
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Maybe we shouldn't dismiss the idea!
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« Reply #55 on: January 24, 2008, 01:53:30 AM »
The 34th rule of aquisition....  Cheesy
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« Reply #56 on: January 24, 2008, 05:08:24 AM »
"Arbitrarily" as in less confined by strict naming schemes (i.e. presidents of the united states, words starting with certain letters, species of fish...).  I wasn't implying that ships were named without reason.
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« Reply #57 on: January 30, 2008, 04:35:53 PM »
I always assumed they built ships in batches, and ships in the same batch would have similar names (so one batch will be named after capitals, then the next after countries, a third after states/provinces etc)

A couple of ideas:

Surya <- I've heard somewhere that its Sanskrit for "Sun"
Zedong <- I've always felt the federation has a slight communist feel to it, so it might work, and it would be nice to see some famous non-western names and themes in the game (the federation is meant to be a worldwide alliance after all, right?).
Liberator
Endearing
Protector
Patreaus <- American General
Abrams <- American General
Harbhajan <- Famous Sikh warrior
Indefatigable <- Old British ship name. Means "untiring".
Highlander <- old scottish warriors (and some crazy dude with a sword LOL)
Immortal <- Ancient Persian elites
Sparta
Spartan
Leonidas
Samurai
Shinto
Men-Shen <- An ancient Chinese protective demon
Oni <- Japanese word for demon
Tengu <- Type of Japanese demon
Kitsune <- Another type of Japan demon
Shogun <- would be great for a capital ship
Katana <- Japanese sword
Wakizashi <- another japanese sword
Tanto <- ...and another...
Komodo <- big Aisian lizard thing

Guess what inspired these ones LOL...
Autumn
Amber
Dawn
Warthog
Scorpion
Mongoose
Ghost
Wraith
Scarab

A couple of ideas from Freespace 2, a game i'm a big fan of;
Myrmidon
Hercules
Pegasus
Perseus
Erinyes
Deimos
Fenris
Leviathan
Aeolus
Orion
Hecate
Arcadia
Watchdog
Cerberus
Aslator
Poseidon
Chronos
Triton
Aquitaine
Galatea
Bastion
Carthage
Rapier
Explorer
Terra
Xerxes
Talos

Hope those help ya
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« Reply #58 on: February 21, 2008, 12:58:02 PM »
Since everybody seems to be doing it i thought id throw in.

USS Omaha
USS Somme
USS Ardenes
USS Galactica
USS Nadesico
USS Genesis
USS Cortez
USS Sword
USS Juno

Would be nice to see some of these ship names in game *nudgenudgewinkwink"say no more
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