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What quote is on your ship's Bridge Plaque?

zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
edited July 2015 in Ten Forward
Here is a picture of Captain Picard reading the plaque of the Enterprise D. I'll let you guess what famous quote is on this plaque. :)

And here is one from USS Voyager.

If our ships had Bridge Plaque, what line would your Captain(s) like to put on his/her ship's plaque?

* * *

The one I would want to use is in my sig, but in case I ever change my STO sig...

We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job.

And here it is in Latin. Just because.

Sumus stella classe nautae. Mirum est pars munus.

And here she is saying those words herself. Pardon the low quality of the image, but the sound is fine.
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Sig? What sig? I don't see any sig.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Heus, heus , heus , heus , nunc . Nolite medium ; non oportet hoc esse vellent , cuz memento , ubicumque fueris, et ibi es.

    edit: Meh, here's a translation...

    Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
  • zedbrightlander1zedbrightlander1 Member Posts: 14,782 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Here is one that was on the alt Uni Enterprise.

    Aut Caesar aut nihil.

    Caesar or nothing.
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    Sig? What sig? I don't see any sig.
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    That's a good question. The USS Chin'toka undoubtedly uses something attributable to a Federation hero of one of the Battles of Chin'toka. I think it is based on a quote from the episode "The Siege of AR-558" from Benjamin Sisko, and goes something like this:

    "They were more than just names, the brave soldiers who gave their lives, their blood, and their peace on that hallowed distant soil. Let neither the passage of time nor light-years diminish our gratitude to those who pay the price for our freedom."

    I felt like a ship like that needed a remembrance of the lives lost in the Chin'toka system, which includes AR-558.

    Here is one that fits with the Akellen Macet, which was commissioned and sent into the Cardassian territories in direct defiance of the True Way. (Why the ship name? In my headcanon, Macet was horrified when he realized his rhetoric against the Federation had inspired the rise of the True Way. He spoke out against it and his family was brutalized and he went into hiding, but continues to speak from his secret location against the terrorists and is thought to be behind efforts to counter them and their supporters from within the Cardassian political system.) I thought there were few better choices than Malala Yousafzai:

    "The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power, and courage were born."

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  • k20vteck20vtec Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Hast thou not gone against sincerity. Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds. Hast thou not lacked vigor. Hast thou exerted all possible efforts. Hast thou not become slothful.
    Hast thou not gone against sincerity
    Hast thou not felt ashamed of thy words and deeds
    Hast thou not lacked vigor
    Hast thou exerted all possible efforts
    Hast thou not become slothful
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    edited March 2015
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    The dedication plaque of USS Lestat, Grunt's new Samsar cruiser:

    Actio personalis monitur TRIBBLE persona.

    (Literal meaning: "A personal action dies with the person." Grunt's interpretation: "Dead men can't sue.")

    (Or possibly Actus non facit reum nisi mens est rea - "I never meant to kill anyone.")
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  • worffan101worffan101 Member Posts: 9,518 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    D'trel would use something Rihan, maybe something Spock said once, but Three has a LOT of quotable plaques...

    In fact, she has a standing policy of having a Maxim of Maximally Effective Mercenaries as well as a quote.

    From my in-game ships, some of my favorite Maxims:

    USS George Takei (t5u Avenger): "Maxim 27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence."

    USS Leonard Nimoy (t5u TSABC): "Maxim 15. Only you can prevent friendly fire."

    USS James Doohan (t5u DSD freebie): "Maxim 13. Do unto others."

    USS William Shatner (Phantom): "Maxim 37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'"

    USS Patrick Stewart (Guardian): "Maxim 1. Pillage, then burn."

    USS Brent Spiner (Chell Grett t5u): "Maxim 6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it."

    My favorite actual quote is the following, from the George Takei:

    "I. Like. To. Kill. Things."
    ~Richard

    There's also the following, from the Brent Spiner:

    "Killing means never having to say you're sorry."
    ~Richard

    And this little gem, from the William Shatner:

    "I don't even pay the price for my own crimes." (the plaque doesn't have the reference, but it's a Richard quote)

    Another great one, from the Patrick Stewart:

    "The look on your face when a toddler rips out your heart and shows it to you? Priceless.

    For everything else, there's Fwoosh."
    ~Richard
  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,476 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    Having looked up the more recent additions to the Seventy Maxims, now I want to make a mercenary character, probably KDF.

    Maxim 49: Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target.
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  • mjarbarmjarbar Member Posts: 2,084 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    On S'ttel's Samsar ship the Caitian Sunrise: "Last one out please turn out the lights!"

    On his Avenger "Walk softly - carry a big gun!"
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  • galattgalatt Member Posts: 709 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    For the USS Los Lobos "When someone tells us to go to hell, we laugh because we're already there."
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    On my Ferengi D'Kora:

    "A greedy TRIBBLE opens iron doors"

    :D
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  • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,016 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    USS King Edward I
    Ideals are peaceful, History is violent.
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      "The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavours, to crush utterly his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existence. From that defeat no enemy can ever recover. That is the meaning of victory."
      -Lord Commander Solar Macharius
    • drowrulesupremedrowrulesupreme Member Posts: 692 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      I have a Klingon toon with all ships named after drinks measures (tot, dram, jeroboam, etc.) so the dedication is a poem by Aphra Behn.

      If all be true, that I doth think,
      there are 5 reasons one should drink;
      good food, good friends, or being dry,
      or lest one should be by-and-by...
      or any other reason why.
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    • adamkafeiadamkafei Member Posts: 6,539 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      For the USS Clarity "noH QapmeH wo' Qaw'lu'chugh yay chavbe'lu', 'ej wo' choqmeH may' DoHlu'chugh lujbe'lu'" written in Klingon with the Federation standard translation written below.

      (For those who aren't fluent in Klingon: "Destroying an Empire to win a war is no victory. And ending a battle to save an Empire is no defeat.")
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    • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      From an earlier thread, since we've done this a couple of times already:
      sander233 wrote: »
      USS Tiburon NCC-68636, V.Adm. Jesus L. LaRoca, Akira-class heavy escort carrier, heavily modified (Armitage-type fleet refit, upgraded):
      "It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
      - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, 1951


      USS Mako NX-81230, Cmdr. LaRoca Rusty, Defiant-class tactical escort, heavily modified (fleet retrofit):
      "The only easy day was yesterday."
      - Motto of the US Navy SEALs


      USS Ray Bradbury NCC-451-F, Capt. Lewis McLain, Intrepid-class (fleet retrofit, upgraded):
      "Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers"
      - Ray Bradbury, All Flesh Is One, What Matter Scores?, 1973


      USS Hammerhead NX-81231-A, Capt. Fozter'Dayn th'Ibear, Khyzon-class Andorian strike escort with Borg-derived modifications (technically a Charal with a Khyzon skin, upgraded):
      "The value of a thing is what that thing will bring"
      - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Lucifer's Hammer, 1977


      IKS Norgh'a'Qun, Gen. Ssharki, Bortasqu'-class tactical heavy battlecruiser (upgraded):
      "Freedom is just a pretty idea unless it's backed by force."
      - General Earle, 1997


      IKS Carcharias Rex - General Ssharki's KDF-registered Risian Cruiser (upgraded):
      "Meaning of life: you stop swimming, you sink."
      - Larry Niven and Steven Barnes, Saturn's Race, 2001


      IKS noSwI' (Nibbler), Cmdr. "Sway" S'fwyrnamokaarn, Ning'tao-class bird of prey (soon-to-be fleet upgrade):
      "If you let a dragonfish nibble your foot, it will remember your taste and not know fear when it grows big enough to swallow you whole."
      - Gorn proverb


      IKS Lung moH (Ugly Lizard), Provisional Cmdr. Harding Cash, KDF-registered Phalanx-class support vessel:
      "Only cheaters prosper."
      - Maxim 31, The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries


      Ugly Snowball, Harding's Breen heavy raider (upraded):
      "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big gun."
      - Maxim 24, The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

      New ships:

      USS Megalodon NCC-91873, CONOPS alternate flagship (Odyssey upgrade):
      "The imagination of man is thought boundless. And yet nature delights in presenting us with creatures too strange for imagining."
      - Charles Thomson, HMS Challenger, 1873


      USS Megalodon NCC-91873-A, replacement (Guardian-class):
      "Our job is never finished. As long as there are destructive forces in the world, as long as there are secrets of nature to be probed, believe me, there'll be work for us."
      - Richard Basehart, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1964


      USS John Paul Jones NCC-17799, Captain Arkady Gregorovich (Excelsior-class retrofit, upgraded):
      "I have not yet begun to fight!"
      - John Paul Jones, USS Bonhomme Richard, 23 September 1779


      USS Bonhomme Richard NCC-79923, Commander Krispen (Intrepid-class refit, upgraded and heavily modified.)
      "I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike."
      - John Paul Jones, USS Bonhomme Richard, 23 September 1779


      IKS ElI'jaH (Uninvited Guest), General Koldor "The Wise", son of D'Ward (Peghqu'-class, fleet upgrade)
      "bISovbejbe'DI' tImer." (When in doubt, surprise them.)
      - Klingon proverb


      RRW Silent Eagle, Commander Don'el Sander (Mogai-class, fleet upgrade):
      "The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes
      To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies
      While aged peasants, too amazed for words
      Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds"
      - Thomas Gray, 1737 (translated into Rihannsu)
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      ...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
      - Anne Bredon
    • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      I do enjoy this thread popping up every now and then.

      My highest-ranked Fed character, Antonine, is still in a Guardian class U.S.S. Trafalgar

      "Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon." Horatio Nelson



      My Romulan science captain usually in an advanced warbird, but the Faeht she's using as a more deniable asset is a little more pithy:

      "In Peace, preparedness, in War, silence"

      The big advanced warbird got commissioned for the Delta Quadrant, so.

      "Though we travel under strange stars, we remember the blades and fires of our homes."

      My Klingon (well, Orion) main pilots a Mogh, and the Demonslayer has as its motto a reminder to its more bloodthirsty Klingon crew:

      "A well-ordered enemy retreat is merely an attack that the enemy has decided to place your position or you."
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    • nikolaykuznetsovnikolaykuznetsov Member Posts: 149 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      U.S.S. Executor - D, Plaque is in my native language:
      "Kad se naguzi ono se natrći" - "Misfortunes never come singly"
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    • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      All of my ships would be "Conquer by reason, or by force."
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    • gavshawgavshaw Member Posts: 65 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      For my main char:

      U.S.S. Little Skye Yu
      NCC-92012
      Galaxy Class Deadnought Cruiser (Fleet, upgraded)
      "All it takes to keep the encroaching darkness at bay is a single little flame, a spark, a light, hope. And from that a new dawn will come."


      For my alt:
      U.S.S. Black Dragon
      Akira Class (Thunderchild subclass)
      "Here be a dragon."

      The motto for my alt was the motto I used on my main. But I have decided to move my main's motto to my alt, as when I started my alt I decided to go with 'dragon' style names. Thus my main's ship got a new motto.
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    • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      It would rather be a song

      https://youtu.be/5qVDdLqZdMs
    • dragonseye1138dragonseye1138 Member Posts: 91 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      I just went and did the whole plaque.
      Q is a Magical Girl.
    • shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      Some of mine (a couple of which turned up in an earlier thread):-

      USS King Estmere

      We shall not cease from exploration
      And the end of all our exploring
      Will be to arrive where we started
      And know the place for the first time

      USS Falcon

      The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

      USS Timor

      Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range,
      Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

      USS Tapiola

      Words shall not be hid
      nor spells buried
      might shall not sink underground
      though the mighty go.

      RRW Messalina

      Justice,
      stretch out your hand. Come down, glittering,
      from where you have hidden yourself away.

      The Ostankino is not officially a Starfleet ship, but in her commander's quarters you may find a small plaque with the quote:-

      What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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    • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      jonsills wrote: »
      Having looked up the more recent additions to the Seventy Maxims, now I want to make a mercenary character, probably KDF.

      Maxim 49: Every client is one missed payment away from becoming a target.

      Reminds me of what happened in the first chapter of Hammer's Slammers, lol. :D

      For Kanril Eleya's USS Bajor, given her fondness for Earth sci-fi:
      Isaac Asimov, Foundation wrote:
      "To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well."

      For Morgan t'Thavrau's RRW Bloodwing:
      Romulan proverb wrote:
      "Hllue rhifv sienov, llhnaeu noimnir anhelaefv daehp'ukhi." ("When a sword shatters, take the fragments back to the forge.")
      "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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    • jodarkriderjodarkrider Member Posts: 2,097 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      Jan Darkrider's U.S.S. Aleksey Krupnyk
      "When people are protecting something truly special to them, they truly can become as strong as they can be." ~Hatake Kakashi
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    • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      Everyone dies.
    • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      USS Vanguard "Our missions are peaceful...not for conquest. When we do battle, it is only because we have no choice." - James T. Kirk
    • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,951 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      Tactical captain - "Ready phasers, load forward torpedo bays"

      Engineer - Captain Brix of the USS Honorable "Today is a good day to die"

      Science - Captain Two of the USS Apollo "So say we all"

      Future Delta Recruit - "The Founders are wise!"
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    • zyriounzyrioun Member Posts: 0 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      USS Endeavour NCC-93348-B "This we'll defend, always prepared, always faithful, free from oppression."

      Combination of US military motto's(slightly modified).
    • shadowkoshshadowkosh Member Posts: 1,688 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      "Every Man Dies, Not Every Man Really Lives" William Wallace
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    • sarreoussarreous Member Posts: 336 Arc User
      edited March 2015
      Virile Agitur
      http://www.wired.com/2012/11/meet-the-whales/all/

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