I'll restrict this to T5 ships only as those are the only ones that I named myself.
KDF Tac:
B'Rel Retrofit IKS Praxis II - I had named the T1 B'Rel Praxis
Guramba Siege Destroyer IKS Lamentation - meant as a reference to the famous quote from Conan.
Krenn Temporal Destroyer IKS Crimson Tempest - A Rogue ability from WoW. Always loved the name as "Crimson" is pretty much my favourite word in the english language.
Quin Heavy Raptor: IKS Phallic Subtext - Seriously, just look at it.
KDF Engineer:
Khamarag Battle Cruiser IKS Furious Howl - WoW class abilities really do make for some great ship names.
Bortasqu' War Cruiser IKS Litany of Fury - obvious Dawn of War reference is obvious
Fed Engineer:
Excelsior Retrofit - USS Hyperion - Starcraft reference
Risian Corvette Spidey - a humble reference to myself *ahem*
Fed Sci:
Luna Class Explorer USS Phobos - They're named after moons in the solar system, so...
Vesta Class Ship USS Akorem - They're named after hills and mountains, my Sci is Bajoran and there's an Akorem's Rock on Bajor mentioned somewhere on Memory Beta
Reman KDF Tac:
Hah'feh Escort RRW Emerald Dawn - No particular reason except that it sounded nice
Mogai Retrofit RRW Retribution - See above
Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer RRW Apocrypha - medieval latin; mostly associated with terms like "false", "bad" or "heretical" whichs seems kinda fitting considering the ship's origin.
Fed Tac:
I named my Breen Chel Grett class ship the U.S.S Frigidaire - reason should be obvious
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U.S.S. Adept
U.S.S. Alacrity
U.S.S. Azhanti ('Traveller' ftw !)
U.S.S. Dispatch (works on SO many levels)
I.S.S. Empress Sato (Mirror Hoshi....Raowwr !)
U.S.S. Garth of Izar (TOS fans unite !)
U.S.S. High Lightning (see 'U.S.S. Azhanti'. Curse you, 16 character limit !)
U.S.S. Inferno
U.S.S. Le-Matya (My Vulcan character's ship. "BAAD KITTEH !")
U.S.S. Mote (shuttle, in honour of Niven & Pournelle)
U.S.S. Mystic (Luna class science vessel)
U.S.S. Tanstaafl (Breen cruiser. Which I had to run for, like Dustin Hoffman. 'There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch' !)
U.S.S. Vortex
'Pearly Queen' (Risian Corvette)
Some of my KDF ships;
I.K.S. Black Targ
I.K.S. Crimson Claw (My KDF Kitty ship)
I.K.S. Death Rite
I.K.S. Death Shroud
I.K.S. Enchantress (My female Orion character's ship)
I.K.S. Fist of Kahless
I.K.S. Incisor (My Gorn character's ship)
I.K.S. Malice
I.K.S. Running Man (No, not the slightly obscene dance ! The Klingon proverb; "Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man !")
I.K.S. Swift Strike
I.K.S. G'Nat (shuttle)
I.K.S. Death Watch (Jem'Hadar Attack Ship)
Got cool downs on my grind fests, so I'll kill a little time and post my main's ships.
And yeah, it's a lot of ships. But I like ships and I like to experiment. Older vessels have been re-purposed for other things (storage, Tour, easy Fleet Actions, etc). This is in addition to my alts' roster I posted earlier in the thread.
Small Craft:
1. U.S.S. Cape Fear (NCC-92883, Danube Class)
2. U.S.S. First Rule (NCC-93051, Na'Far Class Shuttle)
Fed Tac: V.Adm. Jesu LaRoca:
* USS Tiburon (Spanish for "shark") - Army HEC
* USS Megalodon (really big shark, now extinct..?) - Sci Ody
* USS Hammerhead (hits like a sledgehammer) - borgified Khyzon
* USS Devilfish (Stingray was taken) - Galor
* USS Sting Ray - Risian Corvette :cool:
* USS Mako - Defiant Retro w/ MACO set
* USS Akula (Russian for "shark") - MVAM escort
* USS Bat Ray - Peregrine fighter
* USS Zambezi (a river and a species of shark) - Yellowstone runabout
* USS Remora (a fish that attaches itself to sharks) - Captain's Yacht
Rom/Fed Sci: Adm.Don'el Sander
* RRW Silent Eagle (an upgraded F-15E that Boeing recently pitched to the USAF and other customers) - Fleet Mogai retro
* RRW Razor Hawk (nickname for the prototype YMH-60z stealth helicopters that the SEALs rode in to Pakistan to kill Osama) - Fleet Dhelan retro
* RRW Black Widow (Northrop-Grumman's entry to the ATF fly-off, which lost to the F-22 Raptor) - Scorpion fighter
...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
NegVar IKS Targbarg
Kumari Tac: Squishyfishy
Ambassador USS Vitamin C
Vesta: USS Photonic Wrench
Oddessy: USS Esses
Old Defiant USS URPED
Type 7 Shuttle Suppository
PvE Jem'Hadar motto:Participation Ribbonsare life.
I have so many ships that I can't remember all their names.
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I name my federation ships after the Starcraft universe. I have the USS Jim Raynor, the Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades, the Zeratul, and the Overmind.
My KDF ships I have named after WWII, like the Iwo Jima, the Bataan, the Normandy, The Witchcraft (a B-25), and the Nine-o-Nine (a B-17). Also I ran out of room naming the Queen Anne's Revenge, so I named it the Quo' Nos Revenge.
That's awesome. At least as good as my use of BSG civvie ship names,...
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Either Japanese figures (Yamato, Susano'o, Nobunaga, Masamune) (cruisers mainly) Norse gods (Fenrir, Loki, Fafnir, Sleipnir) (escorts mainly) or weapons from fantasy games (Caladbolg, Excalibur, Zantetsuken, Lionheart) (science vessels mainly).
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I've updated my first post in this thread again, with the names and such of new ships, and the name I myself chose for one of my previously unnamed (or rather, named by the game) Dreadnoughts.
I decided fairly early on that I needed some (semi-)sensible naming schemes for my ships.
So, I hit on the idea of using the names of pieces by some of my favourite composers. My Andorian engineer has ships named after the more obscure works of Gustav Holst; for my Vulcan science officer, I moved on to Sibelius. So, should you see an Andorian in the USS King Estmere, or a Vulcan in the USS Tapiola, that might be why.
For my human/lib-borg tac officer, I'm sort of alternating between names of hunting birds and names of angelic orders. There is a reason for this, but it's far too long and silly to go into here. Right now, you are most likely to see her flying the USS Virtue.
And, for my Romulan, I went off on another tangent and started naming the ships after female characters in Robert Graves's I, Claudius. Fortunately, it's a book with a lot of memorable female characters. At the moment, my Rom is tooling around in the RRW Messalina... one of the more memorable ones, I think.
I'm reasonably happy with this system. I do wish, though, that we were allowed a few more characters for the names! It'd be nice for my Andorian to be able to fly the Wandering Scholar or the Somerset Rhapsody. Putting my Vulcan in the USS Breaking of Ice on the Oulu River, now, I admit that would be a bit much...
Miranda Class: USS Dragonfly
It's a small ship, so, I wanted to name it after a really cool insect. Plus "Firefly" was taken.
Rhode Island Class: Free ship from the end of Risa event giveaway. I have not used this ship yet and not change the name.
Exeter Class: USS Skyborn
Dakota Class: USS Artemis
I'm starting on female characters from Greek mythology. Artemis is Apollo's twin sister, goddess of the hunt, represented by the moon, and rules over the night, which makes her a really good starship name. Artemis is the ship I am using now, and she has the photonic displacement console from the Rhode Island class, the Skyborn's ionized gas sensor and all the best goodies earned during episode missions.
I generally try to go for names that are both a reference to something I like, AND that sound like something you'd actually see in Trek.
My first character had a Doctor Who thing going on, so the ships were named after characters within the series - the USS Williams, the USS Gallifrey, and even the USS Victorious.
My Sci toon, meanwhile, is mostly tolkien reference - the Tulkas, the Yavanna, and the Varda
I tend to name my ships after famous people, so my science character's ships are named after famous computer scientists
USS Dijkstra - Named after Edsgear Dijkstra, brilliant mathematician and algorithms deviser
USS Turing - Named after Alan Turing, famous WW2 codebreaker and father of computers
USS Sethi - Named after Ravi Sethi, compilers expert
USS Manning - Named after Christopher Manning, artificial intelligence expert
My engineer's ships are named after Star Trek production crew, writers, directors and producers
USS Fontana, Constitution Class (D.C. Fontana, Writer, TOS)
USS Barret, Type-8 Shuttle (Majel Barret, Actress, TOS & ST:TNG)
USS Meyer, Miranda Class (Nicholas Meyer, Director, The Wrath of Khan)
USS Piller, Stargazer Class (Michael Piller, Writer, ST:TNG)
USS Echevarria, Galaxy Class (Rene Echevarria, Writer, ST:TNG and ST: DS9)
USS Eaves, Sovereign Class (John Eaves, Ship Designer, Sovereign class)
USS Behr, Regent Class (Ira Steven Behr, Executive Producer, ST: DS9)
USS Wolfe, Galor Class (Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Writer, ST:TNG & ST: DS9)
USS Sternbach, Delta Flyer (Rick Sternbach, Ship Designer, Intrepid, Delta Flyer, Nova, Prometheus, Vor'Cha, Negh'Var, Galor)
Comments
1. T'Varo Light Warbird: RRW Oathkeeper
2. Dhael Warbird: RRW Widow's Wail
3. Valdore Heavy Warbird: RRW Longclaw
4. Puyjaq Raptor: IRW Heartsbane (I despise the D'deridex)
5. Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer: RRW Blackfyre.
KDF Tac:
B'Rel Retrofit IKS Praxis II - I had named the T1 B'Rel Praxis
Guramba Siege Destroyer IKS Lamentation - meant as a reference to the famous quote from Conan.
Krenn Temporal Destroyer IKS Crimson Tempest - A Rogue ability from WoW. Always loved the name as "Crimson" is pretty much my favourite word in the english language.
Quin Heavy Raptor: IKS Phallic Subtext - Seriously, just look at it.
KDF Engineer:
Khamarag Battle Cruiser IKS Furious Howl - WoW class abilities really do make for some great ship names.
Bortasqu' War Cruiser IKS Litany of Fury - obvious Dawn of War reference is obvious
Fed Engineer:
Excelsior Retrofit - USS Hyperion - Starcraft reference
Risian Corvette Spidey - a humble reference to myself *ahem*
Fed Sci:
Luna Class Explorer USS Phobos - They're named after moons in the solar system, so...
Vesta Class Ship USS Akorem - They're named after hills and mountains, my Sci is Bajoran and there's an Akorem's Rock on Bajor mentioned somewhere on Memory Beta
Reman KDF Tac:
Hah'feh Escort RRW Emerald Dawn - No particular reason except that it sounded nice
Mogai Retrofit RRW Retribution - See above
Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer RRW Apocrypha - medieval latin; mostly associated with terms like "false", "bad" or "heretical" whichs seems kinda fitting considering the ship's origin.
I named my Breen Chel Grett class ship the U.S.S Frigidaire - reason should be obvious
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On my Orion account, all of my ships are named after deviant sexual practices.
Presently, I have an Elachi Monbosh named the Candida Albicans.
U.S.S. Adept
U.S.S. Alacrity
U.S.S. Azhanti ('Traveller' ftw !)
U.S.S. Dispatch (works on SO many levels)
I.S.S. Empress Sato (Mirror Hoshi....Raowwr !)
U.S.S. Garth of Izar (TOS fans unite !)
U.S.S. High Lightning (see 'U.S.S. Azhanti'. Curse you, 16 character limit !)
U.S.S. Inferno
U.S.S. Le-Matya (My Vulcan character's ship. "BAAD KITTEH !")
U.S.S. Mote (shuttle, in honour of Niven & Pournelle)
U.S.S. Mystic (Luna class science vessel)
U.S.S. Tanstaafl (Breen cruiser. Which I had to run for, like Dustin Hoffman. 'There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch' !)
U.S.S. Vortex
'Pearly Queen' (Risian Corvette)
Some of my KDF ships;
I.K.S. Black Targ
I.K.S. Crimson Claw (My KDF Kitty ship)
I.K.S. Death Rite
I.K.S. Death Shroud
I.K.S. Enchantress (My female Orion character's ship)
I.K.S. Fist of Kahless
I.K.S. Incisor (My Gorn character's ship)
I.K.S. Malice
I.K.S. Running Man (No, not the slightly obscene dance ! The Klingon proverb; "Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man !")
I.K.S. Swift Strike
I.K.S. G'Nat (shuttle)
I.K.S. Death Watch (Jem'Hadar Attack Ship)
Some of my Rommy ships;
R.R.W. Rage of Romulus
R.R.W. Honour Blade
R.R.W. Eviscerator
R.R.W. Eaglet (shuttle)
R.R.W. Trollus (Couldn't resist, sorry!)
And yeah, it's a lot of ships. But I like ships and I like to experiment. Older vessels have been re-purposed for other things (storage, Tour, easy Fleet Actions, etc). This is in addition to my alts' roster I posted earlier in the thread.
Small Craft:
1. U.S.S. Cape Fear (NCC-92883, Danube Class)
2. U.S.S. First Rule (NCC-93051, Na'Far Class Shuttle)
3. U.S.S. Rodger Young (NCC-92920, Type 8)
4. U.S.S. Cernan (NCC-93921, Type 10)
5. U.S.S. Yosemite (NCC-93021, Yellowstone Class)
Starships:
1. U.S.S. Admiral Ushakov (NCC-93589, Odyssey Class)
2. U.S.S. Anaximander (NCC-93078, Magellan Class)
3. U.S.S. Aranda (NCC-93717, Destiny Class)
4. U.S.S. Arleigh Burke (NCC-93613, Galaxy Class)
5. U.S.S. Cygnus (NCC-93716, Nebula Class)
6. U.S.S. Devonshire (NCC-93633, Ambassador Class)
7. U.S.S. El Cid (NCC-93113, Rhode Island Class)
8. U.S.S. Eldridge (NX-93577, Dervish Class)
9. U.S.S Federation (NCC-92606, Miranda Class)
10. U.S.S. Fitzgerald (NCC-92966, Steamrunner Class)
11. U.S.S. Francis Crick (NCC-93259, Olympic Class)
12. U.S.S. Gagarin (NCC-93246, Oberth Class)
13. U.S.S. Georges Leygues (NCC-93956, Prometheus Class)
14. U.S.S. Habsburg (NCC-92991, Sovereign Class)
15. U.S.S. North Carolina (NCC-93787, Constitution Class Refit)
16. U.S.S. Paul H. Carr (NCC-93279, Sabre Class)
17. U.S.S. Polyphemus (NCC-93774, Thunderchild Class)
18. U.S.S. Ranjit (NX-93109, Sao Paulo Class)
19. U.S.S. Robert E. Lee (NCC-92966, Steamrunner Class Refit)
20. U.S.S. Royal Oak (NCC-93100, Vanguard Class)
21. U.S.S. Tranquility (NCC-92692, Sol Class)
22. U.S.S. Tuscarora (NCC-93271, Cheyenne Class)
23. U.S.S. Unificatum (NCC-92944, Galaxy-X Class)
24. U.S.S. Windsor (NX-93058, Majestic Class)
25. U.S.S. Liaoning (NX-99), Risa Corvette)
RRW Shotel. Tulwar class scimitar dreadnought. Because naming conventions. SWORDSSSS
* USS Tiburon (Spanish for "shark") - Army HEC
* USS Megalodon (really big shark, now extinct..?) - Sci Ody
* USS Hammerhead (hits like a sledgehammer) - borgified Khyzon
* USS Devilfish (Stingray was taken) - Galor
* USS Sting Ray - Risian Corvette :cool:
* USS Mako - Defiant Retro w/ MACO set
* USS Akula (Russian for "shark") - MVAM escort
* USS Bat Ray - Peregrine fighter
* USS Zambezi (a river and a species of shark) - Yellowstone runabout
* USS Remora (a fish that attaches itself to sharks) - Captain's Yacht
KDF Eng: Gen. Ssharki
* IKS Norgh'a'Qun (means "great shark god" in tlhIngan Hol) - Tac Bortasqu'
* IKS Norgh'Iw ("blood shark") - fleet Vor'cha retro
* IKS Nuj taj ("dagger mouth") - Kamarag
* IKS Chopnorgh ("sharkbite") - fleet HoH'SuS
* IKS Ho'norgh'a' ("great shark tooth") - DojHud chariot
Rom/Fed Sci: Adm.Don'el Sander
* RRW Silent Eagle (an upgraded F-15E that Boeing recently pitched to the USAF and other customers) - Fleet Mogai retro
* RRW Razor Hawk (nickname for the prototype YMH-60z stealth helicopters that the SEALs rode in to Pakistan to kill Osama) - Fleet Dhelan retro
* RRW Black Widow (Northrop-Grumman's entry to the ATF fly-off, which lost to the F-22 Raptor) - Scorpion fighter
...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
Kumari Tac: Squishyfishy
Ambassador USS Vitamin C
Vesta: USS Photonic Wrench
Oddessy: USS Esses
Old Defiant USS URPED
Type 7 Shuttle Suppository
entered active service on stardate: 91668.2
risian corvette: r.x.s prometheus 07
entered active service on stardate: 91090.79
support cruiser retrofit: u.s.s. river nx 92729
entered active service on stardate: 90685.97
heavy escort carrier: u.s.s. fenix nx 92973...
entered active service on stardate: 91649.04
yellowstone runabout: u.s.s. novi-sr2 nx 94030
entered active service on stardate: 91670.93
all of the stardate are caclulated by using the http://www.stoacademy.com/tools/stardate.php
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This is the ship I served on and a Plankowner of, while I served in the U.S. Navy. All of my ships are named this and I use a prefix, I am up to F, and use S on my Mobiues Time Ship lol.
It's pretty much this hard to keep just one timeline intact. ♪
That's awesome. At least as good as my use of BSG civvie ship names,...
"There... are... four... lights!" ~Jean Luc Picard
"Look at me I'm a target!"
"Fire the Lance on my mark... MARK!
"How many times have we gone into the breach again R'shee?"
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Captain: Ryoko Hakubi
Tactical Officer: Mihoshi Kuramitsu
Engineering Officer: Washu Hakubi
Science Officer: Kiyone Makibi
Other bridge officers: Sasami Jurai
I do so much like the I Claudius names idea.
Miranda Class: USS Dragonfly
It's a small ship, so, I wanted to name it after a really cool insect. Plus "Firefly" was taken.
Rhode Island Class: Free ship from the end of Risa event giveaway. I have not used this ship yet and not change the name.
Exeter Class: USS Skyborn
Dakota Class: USS Artemis
I'm starting on female characters from Greek mythology. Artemis is Apollo's twin sister, goddess of the hunt, represented by the moon, and rules over the night, which makes her a really good starship name. Artemis is the ship I am using now, and she has the photonic displacement console from the Rhode Island class, the Skyborn's ionized gas sensor and all the best goodies earned during episode missions.
On my caitian
Jem dreadnought carrier - Smitten-Kitten
Ferasan's ship
Kar'fi - Bristlenose
U.S.S. Cortana = Odyssey Tact Cruiser
U.S.S. Sulaco = Fleet Excelsior
U.S.S. Nostromo = Jem'Hadar Dreadnought Carrier
U.S.S. Whitestar = Wells Temporal Ship
U.S.S. Liandra = Tal'Shiar Adapted Destroyer (small green-ish ship from Babylon 5)
Or sometimes names that just feel fitting:
U.S.S. Bellerophon = Tholian Recluse Carrier (later renamed to U.S.S. Corona)
U.S.S. Neela = Science Vesta
U.S.S. Mandrake = Tal'Shiar Adapted Battle Cruiser
U.S.S. D'Kira = Ferengi D'Kora
U.S.S. Suwannee = Chimera Heavy Destroyer
U.S.S. Konami = Cardassian Galor
U.S.S. Coleen = Science Vessel Refit
U.S.S. Cole = Fleet Patrol Escort
U.S.S. Toughly = Tuffli
I love to name my ships after Firefly planets & moons too:
U.S.S. Bellerophon (see above)
U.S.S. Jiangyin = Delta Flyer
U.S.S. Regina = Operations Odessey
U.S.S. Beylix = Mobius Destroyer
U.S.S. Athens = Heavy Escort Carrier
U.S.S. Ita = (playable) Tholian Widow fighter
U.S.S. Boros = D'Kyr
U.S.S. Liann Jiun = Aeon Time shuttle
U.S.S. Silverhold = Tholian Orb Weaver
U.S.S. Lilac = Star Cruiser
U.S.S. Three Hills = Multi-Vector Advanced Escort
And probably several others I forgot.
It's rather bizarre, because by complete coincidence, my friend used both of these names for his Miranda class ship.
My first character had a Doctor Who thing going on, so the ships were named after characters within the series - the USS Williams, the USS Gallifrey, and even the USS Victorious.
My Sci toon, meanwhile, is mostly tolkien reference - the Tulkas, the Yavanna, and the Varda
I named my Jem'Hadar Dreadnaught the R.R.W. Ragnorak actually, if you don't know it's the Old Nordic end of days.
USS Dijkstra - Named after Edsgear Dijkstra, brilliant mathematician and algorithms deviser
USS Turing - Named after Alan Turing, famous WW2 codebreaker and father of computers
USS Sethi - Named after Ravi Sethi, compilers expert
USS Manning - Named after Christopher Manning, artificial intelligence expert
My engineer's ships are named after Star Trek production crew, writers, directors and producers
USS Fontana, Constitution Class (D.C. Fontana, Writer, TOS)
USS Barret, Type-8 Shuttle (Majel Barret, Actress, TOS & ST:TNG)
USS Meyer, Miranda Class (Nicholas Meyer, Director, The Wrath of Khan)
USS Piller, Stargazer Class (Michael Piller, Writer, ST:TNG)
USS Echevarria, Galaxy Class (Rene Echevarria, Writer, ST:TNG and ST: DS9)
USS Eaves, Sovereign Class (John Eaves, Ship Designer, Sovereign class)
USS Behr, Regent Class (Ira Steven Behr, Executive Producer, ST: DS9)
USS Wolfe, Galor Class (Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Writer, ST:TNG & ST: DS9)
USS Sternbach, Delta Flyer (Rick Sternbach, Ship Designer, Intrepid, Delta Flyer, Nova, Prometheus, Vor'Cha, Negh'Var, Galor)