When some you name your ships, are you trying to invoke something? Or just asthetics?

lonnehart · July 2012

I've seen some ship names that put question marks in my head. Like the many variations of the words Enteprise, Defiant, Reliant, Voyager, etc... I know must of us name our ships for some asthetic reason (like my Tac officer's ship, the U.S.S. Kusanagi which is named after one of the three regalia of Japan), but I get the feeling that some names are there in hopes of invoking some power to it.

Like the U.S.S. Chuck Norris, probably named in hopes of invoking his "invincibility" during battle...

amurorx0 · July 2012

Most of my ships have their names derived from Mobile Suits or ships of the line.

A few examples (cba to list all 40 or so ships I have):

* Escort carrier U.S.S. Argama. Named from the ship used in Zeta gundam, the Argama launches its fighters, but is far from defenceless on its own.

* Odyssey class U.S.S. Dendrobium. Named from the combination of the Stamen and Orchis, the Dendrobium evokes the irresistable force that the Gundam Dendrobium embodies.

* Atrox class Ra Cailum. Named to evoke the leadership role that the originator had in Char's Counterattack.

*Prometheus class U.S.S. Trombe (*ahem* thats Trombe!), named as an embodiment of the meme Trombe! override. Many an alpha strike have been shrugged off, ambushers killed before any serious damage done, generally a badass ship in the hands of my tac captain. She was mothballed when the Armitage launched

commadorebob · July 2012

USS Huntsville - Named after home town
USS Saratoga - Named after the ships of Starfleet FAIL legend
USS Blizzard - Captain is an Andorian
IKS Mogh - Obvious
IKS Kitty - My Ferasan.

So, no deep thought was applied to my names.

juanforzia · July 2012

Well, in fact all my ships are some Mexican Related, 'cause that's my nation, i'm proud to be mexican.

I'm not at the moment on my PC, but when i get home, i'll wrote all muy ship's names, on all my characters

mikewendell · July 2012

I just named mine after my ex. That way if it blows up, I don;t have to worry about it.

champion1701 · July 2012

USS Chernobyl (Venture Class Dreadnought) - Named for the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl, Ukraine.
USS Fukushima (Excelsior Class Retrofit) - Named for the nuclear disaster of Fukushima, Japan.
USS Normandy (Odyssey Tactical Cruiser) - Named for SSV Normandy from Mass Effect.

commadorebob · July 2012

mikewendell wrote: »

I just named mine after my ex

I tried that. But the ship would just sit around and do nothing while consuming all of my resources...

hippiejon · July 2012

VA John Hippie, USS Woodstock NCC-91969 , named and numbered for the music festival that happened in 1969.
[Ship's Dedication -
"We are stardust, We are golden, We are billion year old carbon ..."
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young]

LCdr Bagheera (Caitian) , USS Kipling , for obvious reasons. The BOff crew are also named for Jungle Book characters. Mowgli, Baloo, etc.

I named all my science officer's ships after famous nurses. Currently in a MVAE The USS Walt Whitman. Her Intrepid is the USS Christine Chapel (with a creative spelling)

hippiejon · July 2012

By the by, some great names on ship's above.

Particularly like The USS Quetzalcoatl, and the USS Kusanagi.

sumghai · July 2012

I went for USS Odyssey simply because it sounded cool, and stuck with it despite finding out later that there was a specific class of ships called the Odyssey Star Cruiser.

mikewendell · July 2012

commadorebob wrote: »

I tried that. But the ship would just sit around and do nothing while consuming all of my resources...

The smile face that is displayed in the footer of wordpress blogs when you use their stats program is named after her.

For the very same reason.

edit: Can't believe I found the original thread. Searching over there is worse than here.

srgtburglar · July 2012

I named mine in pure humor just as displayed in my signature

USS GornIn60Seconds

skhc · July 2012

Named my Tac's ships after figures / places from Irish history, including the legendary figure of Cu Chulainn (3 of those), and the 11th century High King Brian Boru. I couldn't think of a good one off the top of my head for my Armitage, (I don't think USS Niall of the Nine Hostages would look very good) so I called it the USS Emerald.

I started named my Sci's ships after scientists from the Half Life game, but I got bored of that when I reached T5, so I called my ship the USS Porunga because I'd been watching a lot of the abridged series of Dragonball Z at the time.

mimey2 · July 2012

I generally keep a variety of serious and silly names on my ships.

Fed Tac: U.S.S. The Voice - Armitage class Escort
Fed Engineer: U.S.S. Mirror Image - Excelsior class Retrofit
Fed Science: U.S.S. Dave's Not Here - Recon Science Vessel
KDF Tac: I.K.S. Odyssey Killer - Bortasqu' Tactical Cruiser
KDF Engineer: I.K.S. Pretty Princess - Bortasqu' War Cruiser
KDF Science: I.K.S. Great Waffle - Vo'Quv Carrier

jkstocbr · July 2012

A bit of a mix for me, but they all have a purpose

USS Adventura was my first ship because that was why I started.

USS Burley Griffin is the name of a lake in my home city, named after the designer of the City.

USS Southern Cross, a constellation appearing on the Australian flag

USS Brindabella, A mountain range in Australia.

USS Labradoodle, a popular dog breed in Australia (Labrador / Poodle). My wife wants one.

ussberlin · July 2012

T-W-Riker

U.S.S. Berlin - Light Cruiser - after the City i was Born and still living
U.S.S. Berlin-I -Light Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-II - Cruiser Refit
U.S.S. Berlin-III - Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit
missing Enterprise-C
U.S.S. Berlin-V - Dreadnought Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI - Assault Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VII-OC - Odyssey Operations Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VII-SC - Odyssey Science Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VII-TC - Odyssey Tactical Cruiser
U.S.S. Enterprice - Caitian Atrox Carrier after the Starship with s and not c and the US Aircraft Carrier
U.S.S. Ezri - Yellowstone Runabout ... after the new Dax
U.S.S. Jadzia - NCC-92940 - Danube Runabout after the older Dax and why this NCC... you can find out yourself
U.S.S. Janeway - Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit - after Cpt. Janeway and Voyager TV Show
U.S.S. Kira - Peregrine Fighter
U.S.S. Kirk - Class F Shuttle
U.S.S. Mirror-1 - Mirror Assault Cruiser
U.S.S. Mirror-2 - Mirror Star Cruiser
U.S.S. Nagoya - D'Kyr Science Vessel - dont know why this name maybe have not changed it yet
U.S.S. Paris - Delta Flyer - after Tom Paris and Voyager TV Show
U.S.S. Picard -Type 8 Shuttle
U.S.S. T'Pok - Tal'Kyr Support Craft - after my Sci Cpt.
U.S.S. T-W-Riker - Captain's Yacht - after my Tac. Cpt.
U.S.S. Tholian - Tholian Widow Fighter
U.S.S. Tornado - Stalker Fighter after the German Fighter Plane
U.S.S. Tuffli - Tuffli Class Freighter
U.S.S. Warrior - Light Escort
U.S.S. Warrior-II - Escort Refit
U.S.S. Warrior-III - Heavy Escort Carrier
U.S.S. Warrior-IV - Fleet Patrol Escort
U.S.S. Warrior-V - Tactical Escort Retrofit - because this ship is a Warrior
U.S.S. Warrior-VI - Multi-Vector Advanced Escort

W-T-Riker

U.S.S. Berlin - Light Cruiser - Mirranda Class
U.S.S. Berlin-I - Light Cruiser - Constitution
U.S.S. Berlin-II - Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-II-R - Cruiser Refit
U.S.S. Berlin-III - Heavy Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-III-RF - Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retrofit
U.S.S. Berlin-V - Exploration Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-V-R - Exploration Cruiser Refit
U.S.S. Berlin-V-RF - Exploration Cruiser Retrofit
U.S.S. Berlin-V-X - Dreadnought Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI - Assault Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI-M - Mirrorr Star Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VII - Odyssey Tactical Cruiser
U.S.S. Boston - Heavy Cruiser - because not matching in my other Cruiser Line of Enterprises
U.S.S. Dupleix - Yellowstone Runabout - dont changed it after i got it
U.S.S. Enterprice - Caitian Atrox Carrier - same as with T-W-Riker
U.S.S. Jadzia - Danube Runabout
U.S.S. Janeway - Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit
U.S.S. John F. Kennedy - Heavy Escort Carrier - after the US- President and the US. Aircraft Carrier
U.S.S. Kira - Peregrine Fighter - because Kira used Fighters in War with Cardassians
U.S.S. Paris - Delta Flyer - because Tom Paris made the 1. Delta Flyer
U.S.S. W-T-Riker - Captain's Yacht
U.S.S. Warrior - Tactical Escort Retrofit - because this Ship is a Warrior

T'Pok

U.S.S. Berlin - Light Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-I - Cruiser Refit
U.S.S. Berlin-II - Advanced Heavy Cruiser Retofit
U.S.S. Berlin-IV - Exploration Cruiser Refit
U.S.S. Berlin-IV-R - Exploration Cruiser Retrofit
U.S.S. Berlin-IV-X - Dreadnought Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-V - Assault Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-V-M - Mirror Star Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI - Odyssey Star Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI-O - Odyssey Operations Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI-S - Odyssey Science Cruiser
U.S.S. Berlin-VI-T - Odyssey Tactical Cruiser
U.S.S. Chicago - Heavy Cruiser
U.S.S. Darvin - Light Science Vessel - after Charles Darvin and his Evolution!
U.S.S. Darvin-I - Science Vessel Refit
U.S.S. Darvin-II - Research Science Vessel
U.S.S. Darvin-III - Long Range Science Vessel Refit
U.S.S. Darvin-IV - Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit
U.S.S. Darvin-V - Advanced Research Vessel
U.S.S. Darvin-V-R - Advanced Reseach Vessel Retrofit
U.S.S. Darvin-VI - Deep Space Science Vessel
U.S.S. Darvin-VII - Reconnaissance Science Vessel
U.S.S. Enterprice - Caitian Atrox Carrier
U.S.S. Ferrari - Stalker Fighter - fast but not Red like a Ferrari a Dream Car from me
U.S.S. John F. Kennedy - Heavy Escort Carrier
U.S.S. Kanagawa -Yellowstone Runabout - have not changed but after i bought it yet
U.S.S. Kira - Peregrine Fighter
U.S.S. Kirk - Class F Shuttle
U.S.S. Paris - Delta Flyer
U.S.S. Picard - Type 8 Shuttle
U.S.S. T'Pok - D'Kyr Science Vessel - after my Sci Vulkan Cpt.
U.S.S. Tal'Kyr - Tal'Kyr Support Craft
U.S.S. Terry Farrell - NCC-191163 - after you see yourself or ?
U.S.S. W-T-Riker - Captain's Yacht
U.S.S. Warrior - Light Escort
U.S.S. Warrior-I - Escort Refit
U.S.S. Warrior-II - Heavy Escort Refit
U.S.S. Warrior-III - Tactical Escort Refit
U.S.S. Warrior-IV - Tactical Escort Retrofit
U.S.S. Warrior-V - Multi-Vector Advanced Escort
U.S.S. Warrior-VI - Patrol Escort

Shanara-Klingon-Tac-Cpt.

boglejam73 · July 2012

U.S.S. Wee Baby Seamus - I'm a big "Archer" fan. Wish I could get his ringtone to play whenever my toon taps her combadge.

centersolace · July 2012

Is there a theme? Well.... sort of....

I'm a dummy so coming up with names for things is always hard. So I have a couple really easy "Themes" that I use when naming ships. The one usually use, is simply name them after ships from Anime I like. :P

I've had the U.S.S. Arcadia, U.S.S. Soyokaze, U.S.S. Swordbreaker, and U.S.S. Exelion. (If you can name what the last two are from you get a cookie)

There was period of time I named all my ships after the scientific names of flowers too... I've Had a U.S.S. Iridiceae, Oliceae.... (Not sure I spelled those right)

I've also named a few after plays, U.S.S. Phantom, U.S.S. Brigadoon, U.S.S. Pinafore... :P

drasketo · July 2012

USS Artemis, Odyssey Star Cruiser on my main fed eng, even though it really doesnt turn *that* well, its still a very graceful, beautiful ship.

USS/IKS Otana, tac escort retro on my fed eng, brel bop on my kdf tac. Named after the transport from the X-Wing Alliance game. I love that game and that ship.

USS Marathon, Assault Cruiser on my main fed eng and fed tac, not after the battle but because I love to run, even though if I push it too hard I start to break my legs again. (MVAE got named Triathlon as a joke, Im not much of a swimmer, and I dont use the ship much anyway)

IKS Arachnophobia, Guramba on my KDF tac. I was going to use the class name for starfish, Asteroidea, but it just didnt sound right. Arachnophobia doesnt quite fit either, but "fear of something usually somewhat spiky" was good enough.

IKS Casino Riale, Kar'Fi on the kdf tac, a joke that someone in Qo'noS Zone came up with when I was trying to name the thing (Riale being the character name). There was also "Riale With Cheese" but that would not fit.

USS Starchaser, Recon Sci Vessel. Should be pretty self-explanatory.

USS Arrogance, on my pure threat control fed tank, also should be pretty self-explanatory.

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Basically, the names I use are always important in some way or another or mean something, at least to me personally. I rarely ever just slap a name on there (although, atrox ... Hello Kitty ... yeah).

markhawkman · August 2012

I have a variety of themes I've used. But the theme varies by the character.

Melati Kusumu has reptile themed names, her current ship is "Doom Serpent"

Meghan Eridian has ships named after actresses who played characters named Eris. The "Rachel" is named after the voice actress who did Eris in "The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy".

Chuft uses derivatives of "Traitor's Claw" the name of the Kzinti ship in TAS ep "The Slaver Weapon".

Monica Rappaccini uses names related to fictional and real life secret research projects, her current ship is named "Manhattan" after the Manhattan Project(US nuclear research project).

hrisvalar · August 2012

Most of my alts I don't care much about, so I'll settle for aesthetics. Just hit random untill something 'appropriate' comes up and call it at that.

Mind you, appropriate doesn't have anything to do with special meaning regarding your captain or whatever. Captains getting to rechristen their own ships is a highly uncommon occurance. If you're given command of the USS Soggy Britches, the proper response is "Thank you sir/ma'am" and hope Klingons don't read English good. To give a ship a name to match the culture or traits of its captains therefor often feels unrealistic to me, unless it looks like the captain was chosen to match the ship's name, rather than the name to match the captain, which is probably why I've no trouble settling for the random namer in most cases.

That said, my Andorian (main) admiral commands the U.S.S. Salah ad-Din. That always struck me as a great name for a Sovereign class ship, to the point where I just had to have it in STO. I also always sort of took issue with Trek ship naming conventions. With very few exceptions, Starfleet ships always had American and Eurocentric names, despite there being more peoples on Earth, and about 150 more planets in the sky, and while it's not an alien name it's a step in the right direction I think. Makeup time and cost was an acceptable answer for the crews being mostly human, but hull markings really don't cost anything extra. And of course the name makes some small minority of people a little bit squeamish, and I won't deny that I always (no longer secretly) enjoyed that just maybe a little bit too much.

Before the Salah ad-Din, I had the same (main) captain (at the time) in a ship called the U.S.S. Thelian. Which sort of bent my own rule. It's an Andorian captain in an escort named for the last Andorian Federation president, Thelianaresth th'Vorothishria. Also a former starfleet captain. But I could see how, fresh out of Utopia Planitia, Starfleet might want to give such a ship to an Andorian, to score some bluey-points with his homeworld, so I made the exception. It's just one of those names. If they build a new U.S.S. Surak, the first CO is probably going to be a Vulcan too. Afterward, in both cases, it's who (or what)ever's next in line.

And of course, every new Klingon bird of prey is an automatic I.K.S. cha'bIp. (Then you count the lols and lames, and you know how many people in the zone can read at least some tlhIngan'Hol.)

corsair114 · August 2012

I generally come up with a specific naming convention for each of my Captains to prevent myself from becoming stymied when choosing a ship name.

FED Sci. Captain: Vice Admiral Grimwerth "Grim" Furrowson

Naming Convention: Mythological Creatures

Ship 1: U.S.S. Efreet (Advanced Escort)

Ship 2: U.S.S. Isonade (Heavy Escort Carrier)

An Efreet is a relative of the Djinn and a fire spirit. "Isonade" is a warehouse spirit in Japanese mythology.

FED Tac. Captain: Captain V'lir Saakuna

Naming Convention: Knights of the Round Table

Ship 1: U.S.S. Leodegrance (Recon Science Vessel)

Leodegrance is the father of Queen Guinevere and a Knight of the Round Table.

FED Tac. Captain: Captain Pasdack

Naming Convention: Norse Gods

Ship 1: U.S.S. Loki (Mirror Universe Assault Cruiser)

Normally, I try to stay away from Gods which are extremely popular or well known but none of the others seemed even remotely more appropriate for this ship than the Trickster God.

KDF Tac. Captain: Foafi

Naming Convention: Memes and pop culture

Ship 1: IKS Yu'Noh'Lyk'Mi (Hegh'ta Heavy Bird of Prey

The namewould be "Hwi'Yu'Noh'Lyk'Mi" if I had room in the naming box for my ship, and is an obvious nod to the troll meme "y u no like me?"

tort333 · August 2012

I have a theme for my names (and a method for making NCC numbers but I won't go into that).

Currently I'm running through as a Tactical Officer, my current ship is the USS Nimble. All my ship names for this character (from this ship onward) are taken from Traits from Vampire: The Masquerade Laws of the Night. Because I'm going to be flying Escorts and the most famous one being the Defiant I thought that easily sounded like it could be a Trait from that game. Also I'm a roleplayer and loved V:TM back when I played it regularly (I've missed playing local LRP and Table top games doesn't happen as much these days as most of my group as moved away).

I'm probably not going to start another character till I either hit Admiral or till I finish the storylines, I haven't decided. But I do intend on trying out the other classes and some other races. For Science I'm probably going to go with a theme of Greek gods. For Engineering Probably Ancient Egyptian.

Oh also the starter ships are always deliberately off-theme, as you don't "choose" that ship it just doesn't feel like it is "mine" as much as the rest.

starkofthenorth · August 2012

IKS Tharlarion
Named for a reptilian beast of burden in the Science Fantasy works of John Norman. It comes in a variety of shapes and sized from a four legged alligator type to the large Velociraptor War Tharlarion.

admrenlarreck · August 2012

Well For me I have two ships that have a special name. My Sovereign is the USS Sherwood, named after the Sherwood forest. And my Defiant is the USS Nalbin, named after my characters home province on Bajor. As for my other ships, I pick names out of the StarFleet Technical Manual.

On the KDF side I pick something thats a joke and Translate it into Klingon. My Fav is the IKS Chocolate Tribble. (IKS yuch yiH ) although I just got my second B'rel and decided not to change its name.....IKS G'AG

farmallm · August 2012

My Fed ship is named, USS Casing Head. That is the name of the oil tanker my grandfather served in World War II. As my KDF, I hadn't really chose a name so its kinda random. Next time I get on the game I will create a better name for it.

juanforzia · August 2012

Well, i'm back in home, and i'll post you my ship's names here ATM:

Federation:
U.S.S. Aztlan NX-357400 (NX Replica Ligth Escort)
U.S.S. Ixt?pete NCC-357402 (Nova Science Vessel)
U.S.S. Jalisco NCC-357403 (Stargazer-hybrid Heavy Cruiser)
U.S.S. Tizoc NCC-357404 (Intrepid Long Range Science Vessel)
U.S.S. Tenochtitlan NCC-357405 (Noble-hybrid Assault Cruiser)
U.S.S. Quetzalcoatl NCC-357407 (Odyssey Star Cruiser) [Current Main ship]

Ferengi:
U.S.S. Netlaicoltiliztl NCC-357406 (Ferengi D'kora Maraunder)

Small:
U.S.S. Chapala NCC-99307-A (Stalker Figther)

Mirror:
(I.S.S.) U.S.S. Porfirio D?az NX-213007 (Mirror Star Cruiser)
(I.S.S.) U.S.S. Gustavo D. Ordaz NX-213003 (Mirror Assault Cruiser)

Each one had their oun story about their names, on next days i'll post you the story behind the names of each ship

See you soon

shauntrek · August 2012

I am new to the game and have found alot of names to be cool, funny or weird. I made an engineer so I named my ship the Archimedes who is kinda considered the father of engineering.

sandukutupu · August 2012

I think this question may have been asked before. All my ship's names are Welsh because the Welsh language looks alien.

Pyped is puppet, Addewid Gwag is empty promise, Marwolaeth Seren is death star, and Llong Fach is little ship.

Oh and my science officer is Gorwedd Glas Gwyddoniaeth, I will leave you to figure it out.

sonoframon · August 2012

Let's see...

I follow the One name -A, -B, -C convention. Find it to be easier for me than a whole bunch of names.

Under my FED eng toon (first toon) i figured I'd name my ship in memory of my father, who was just as much a trekkie as I am (he passed away in 2006 from complications from heart surgery), so the name "Son of Ramon" is applied to that toon (and its also my screen name if you didn't notice)

On my tac toon, I chose "San Lorenzo", because it is where I was born in Puerto Rico.

And on the KDF side... I threw caution to the four winds and decided to go on an aviary tangent... in Spanish. My raptor's named the IKS Po'llo Vi'ejo (my BoP is named IKS Po'llo N'ojado)...

mav75 · August 2012

Federation

Human Engineer
- USS Frontier (Galaxy R), from Armada 2
- USS Alliance (Sovereign)
- USS Valley Forge (Excelsior)
- USS Paladin (Defiant)
Ferengi Engineer
- USS Gordon Gekko (D'Kora)
Trill Science
- USS Swiftsure (Intrepid), named after battleship HMS Swiftsure
Human Tactical
- USS Rogue Warrior (Defiant), named after the founder of SEAL Team 6 Richard Marcinko
Klingon Tactical
- USS Hero (Defiant), named after fictional ship HMS Hero
- USS Larry Thorne (MVAM), named after a real life hero

KDF

Orion Sci
- IKD Heartbreaker, Hegh'ta BoP
- IKS Shattered Dream, Orb Weaver
Liberated Borg Tactical
- IKS Hunter-Killer, Qin Raptor
- IKS Shadow Hunter, Hegh'ta BoP
Liberated Borg Engineer
- IKS K'el ri'anda (Vo'quv), "Dangerous Fat Man"
Ferasan Science
- IKS Na ra'den (Vo'quv), "Carrier of Doom"
Orion Tactical
- IKS Mistress, Garumba
- IKS Paramour, Qin Raptor

When some you name your ships, are you trying to invoke something? Or just asthetics?

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