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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    USS Janeway.
    Intrepid with Discovery engines.
    Obvious reasons...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My Character is a Vulcan / Romulan half breed and I've named the ships after Roman weapons i.e USS Gladius, USS Hasta etc etc
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I'm a engineer, so I wanted weighty engineering type names.

    T1. Mercury
    T2. Gemini
    T3. Apollo

    The three programs leading to the moon landing

    T4. McAuliffe - after Christa McAuliffe from STS-51-L, the Challenger Disaster, may her noble spirit embiggen us all.

    T5. Farnsworth - after the Professor on Futurama, himself named for Philo T Farnsworth, inventor of the electric Television
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Mine is the USS Desiderata. From the latin "desired things". It was used to name one of the thoroughfares through Freeside, the T-A space station from Gibson's Neuromancer. Also note, my character, Jane Tessier is named for a character from the same book. The Lady 3Jane Marie France Tessier-Ashpool. I love me some Neuromancer
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Mnemonica wrote: »
    Mine is the USS Desiderata. From the latin "desired things". It was used to name one of the thoroughfares through Freeside, the T-A space station from Gibson's Neuromancer. Also note, my character, Jane Tessier is named for a character from the same book. The Lady 3Jane Marie France Tessier-Ashpool. I love me some Neuromancer

    Neuromancer is awesome ;)


    Mine's the USS Migrator One

    Also have the Astral Migrator and Stellar Migrator.


    Named em that way, since i cannot fit "Universal Migrator" into the naming conventions.


    Universal Migrator is from the Ayreon series of CDs. If you've never heard Ayreon, definitely do yourself a favor and do so. Incredible music, with a sci-fi story. Great stuff :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Carbuncle, the radioactive squirrel rules!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    USS Wolverine - I happen to like the movie Red Dawn.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Pendra37 wrote: »
    USS Wolverine - I happen to like the movie Red Dawn.

    Me too. Anything with WW III and/or Apocalype/Armageddon/Doomsday is fine with me. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    the iks pandasia it's big, it's fluffy, it has alot of tiny followers, and it brings death in a cutely wrapped package =3


    and

    HELLO KITTY NEGH'VAR
    the paint job says it all
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    ha the name of my escort is the uss bruudruuster wich is dialect in my language for toaster :) kinda catchy dont you think ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    NX-Binky named after the horse the death rides in Terry pratchet boks
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Just a few names i used for my ships:

    Eternity Avalon Aeon Demeter Dionysus Ares Charon

    Cairo Mesopotamia Indomitable Relentless Polaris

    Defender Pantheon Aglaia Bajor Surak Sisko


    As you can see i like greek mythology. I also like to name my ships after famous persons, like Sisko for example.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    U.S.S. Ljosalfar
    Norse air spirits/elves. I plan to have a Norse theme to all of my ship's names with this character.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    U.S.S. Icarus, named after Icarus who flew too close to the sun and fell to his death.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I already posted but since then I've added

    USS Clarion (Dervish-class escort for my newly promoted RA character)

    and

    USS Chin'toka (Cheyenne-class heavy escort). Named after the Chin'toka System, site of two pivotal battles during the Dominion War.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    USS Loxwood...It's where I live! :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Going to hit Commander soon - don't really like the look of the Science vessels and Cruisers available at that tier (Cheyenne's a kitbash, Stargazer/Dakota look a bit clunky, Olympic is a horrible mutant version of what we saw in 'All Good Things', and the other two? Blecch!! :p ), so I'm going with the iconic Akira-class - after three cruisers, a warship should spice things up a bit (and by 'spice', read that as 'blow'... ;) ).

    Haven't thought up a decent registry number yet (might see what I'm given, although I'm tempted to go into the 100000+ range, rather than the default 91000+), but with things like the 'USS Kirk' and 'USS Montgomery Scott' already in the game, I figure it's time another major Starfleet legend gets a suitable namesake. Hence:

    U.S.S. Robert April :cool:

    It's about time - need more TAS love in STO! Particularly since, with the Abrams movie doing the rounds, it's only right to remind people who the real first Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise was! ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    My new command is aboard the...

    U.S.S. Moriarty

    I think Picard would approve. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Commander_Shepherd wrote:
    it's only right to remind people who the real first Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise was! ;)

    Well, if you mean the FIRST USS Enterprise, it was Colonel Benedict Arnold in 1775

    Anyways, mine however was due to I was watching A Certain Scientific Railgun when I got my Sovereign and liked the Nickname a character gave the main character, bout it really.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Jim-San wrote:
    Well, if you mean the FIRST USS Enterprise, it was Colonel Benedict Arnold in 1775

    Anyways, mine however was due to I was watching A Certain Scientific Railgun when I got my Sovereign and liked the Nickname a character gave the main character, bout it really.

    Hey, you - stop picking! I like my nits! :D

    (scratches head...)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    U.S.S. Jolteon at the moment.
    One of the Eeveelutions of the Pok
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    I usually try to name my ships after the class name

    USS Zulfiquar, Excalibur-class -- Named after the sword of Muhammed. Fitting for a class apparently named after swords.
    USS Andromeda, Galaxy-class -- Because I'm convinced Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda" was meant to depict the Fall of the Federation. :D
    USS Kadesha, Oracle-class -- A kadesha was a sacred priestess from Mesopotamia. It fits in with the Oracle class name.
    USS Hecatoncheries, Fleet Escort -- She's a torpedo boat. Throws lots of torps at things, hence the name 'Hundred-Handed Giant.'
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    U.S.S. D. C. Fontana
    U.S.S. Gene L. Coon
    U.S.S. Matt Jefferies
    U.S.S. Bjo Trimble
    U.S.S. Lucille Ball

    No need to explain the names, right?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    Trekkie1961 wrote:
    U.S.S. D. C. Fontana
    U.S.S. Deforest Kelly
    U.S.S. Matt Jefferies

    and the next one will most likely be the

    U.S.S. Bjo Trimble

    No need to explain the names, right?

    What, no USS John M. Ford? =)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    V-Mink wrote:
    What, no USS John M. Ford? =)

    No, but the commander of those ships is named Norman R Spinrad.For a short time there was a U.S.S. Iron Dream.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    Soon to be USS Kelekona, which is Hawian for dragon. For the fleet I'm in.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    My ship is the USS Syntax Error.
    i ran out of names :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    Science:
    USS Barnard NCC-91002 (it should be 73873 but you cant use that..) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard
    Escort:
    USS Kir'Shara NCC-93873 (A-B-C) http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kir%27Shara
    Cruser:
    USS Debrecen NCC-91944 (The city was basically raized in 1944) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debrecen
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    U.S.S. Truth. Because you can't handle the Truth :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited June 2010
    Most of my ship names come from Mass Effect.

    My primary ship is a Federation Sovereign class called Reaper.
    Does anyone get the reference? ;)

    I also have Quarian and Salarian (science ships).

    Coragion is just a name I made up for my Defiant class escort, it's the only name not from Mass Effect.

    KDF side:

    Krogan (Negh'var class, primary ship).
    Turian (Vo'Quv carrier)
    Varren (Hegh'ta class Bird of Prey)
    Vorcha (K'Tanco Battlecuiser)
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