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jjotterbear#7583 jjotterbear
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edited August 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I hope some of the first Lower Decks content we'll get will be these 2 beauties!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usjYC7zYSs0&ab_channel=Spacedock
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    questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,321 Arc User
    Here's a bar of soap. Now use it to wash your mouth for suggesting something like that.
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    shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    Not gonna' lie, I'd be ready to throw some good money at my screen for a California Class starship.
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    warmonger360warmonger360 Member Posts: 524 Arc User
    questerius wrote: »
    Here's a bar of soap. Now use it to wash your mouth for suggesting something like that.

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    seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    Definitaly not a fan of the California Class (Cerritos) but the Parliament Class (Vancouver) is a cool looking ship.
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    spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,263 Arc User
    We've seen a grand total of 4 starfleet ships 5 if you count that wierd transport/medical ship with only a handful others mentioned so the pool of ships in LD isn't big enough to say anything yet imho.
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    seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    edited September 2020
    reyan01 wrote: »
    The overwhelmingly Americentric ship naming theme in this series is really getting on my nerves though.

    It's an American TV show.

    When I watch British shows, I don't get annoyed that they drive on the wrong side of the road. :lol:

    Besides, I am pretty sure the origins of the word 'Parliament' are British and Vancouver is in Canada.
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    foxrockssocksfoxrockssocks Member Posts: 2,482 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Meh - indifferent about these ships, but people like what they like.

    The overwhelmingly Americentric ship naming theme in this series is really getting on my nerves though.

    Star Trek generally has an anglocentric naming convention. Hood, Enterprise, Excelsior, Yorktown, etc. Now and then you get a Yamato or Akira, but chiefly the names are from the anglosphere I believe. I'd say its because the largest naval tradition with names to draw on comes from the US/UK navies. Japan has its own proud naval tradition for a short time in history, but that doesn't give a lot to draw on. It is also made for an english speaking audience who would associate most of those names with important history.

    But, I guess the question is how many ships have even been named on the show?
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    fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
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    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    reyan01 wrote: »
    The overwhelmingly Americentric ship naming theme in this series is really getting on my nerves though.

    It's an American TV show.

    When I watch British shows, I don't get annoyed that they drive on the wrong side of the road. :lol:

    Besides, I am pretty sure the origins of the word 'Parliament' are British and Vancouver is in Canada.

    We should get annoyed about that a bit more though.

    It'd be the first step towards teaching them some manners. Second thing on the list of course would be to stop pretending they're French when they don't sound like it at all. ;)
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    fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5
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    foxrockssocks wrote: »
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Meh - indifferent about these ships, but people like what they like.

    The overwhelmingly Americentric ship naming theme in this series is really getting on my nerves though.

    Star Trek generally has an anglocentric naming convention. Hood, Enterprise, Excelsior, Yorktown, etc. Now and then you get a Yamato or Akira, but chiefly the names are from the anglosphere I believe. I'd say its because the largest naval tradition with names to draw on comes from the US/UK navies. Japan has its own proud naval tradition for a short time in history, but that doesn't give a lot to draw on. It is also made for an english speaking audience who would associate most of those names with important history.

    But, I guess the question is how many ships have even been named on the show?

    Even worse, I was reading a video of Enterprise a couple of days ago. Someone in the comment section wondered what Dominic Keating (Reed) and Patrick Stewart would think every time they had to pronounce 'lieutenant' wrong.

    I didn't get it. Only after reading that comment and Googling, did I find out that there's a huge difference between British and American lieutenants.

    Though I must admit, the American pronunciation does seem more appropriate in this exceptional case.
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    spiritbornspiritborn Member Posts: 4,263 Arc User
    fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »
    foxrockssocks wrote: »
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Meh - indifferent about these ships, but people like what they like.

    The overwhelmingly Americentric ship naming theme in this series is really getting on my nerves though.

    Star Trek generally has an anglocentric naming convention. Hood, Enterprise, Excelsior, Yorktown, etc. Now and then you get a Yamato or Akira, but chiefly the names are from the anglosphere I believe. I'd say its because the largest naval tradition with names to draw on comes from the US/UK navies. Japan has its own proud naval tradition for a short time in history, but that doesn't give a lot to draw on. It is also made for an english speaking audience who would associate most of those names with important history.

    But, I guess the question is how many ships have even been named on the show?

    Even worse, I was reading a video of Enterprise a couple of days ago. Someone in the comment section wondered what Dominic Keating (Reed) and Patrick Stewart would think every time they had to pronounce 'lieutenant' wrong.

    I didn't get it. Only after reading that comment and Googling, did I find out that there's a huge difference between British and American lieutenants.

    Though I must admit, the American pronunciation does seem more appropriate in this exceptional case.
    I dunno about Keating but Steward would have probably not minded at all seeing it as how his character pronounces things, Reed is suppose to be English with a long family tradition of service but Picard is a Frenchman who might not learn English language pronunciation of military ranks until he got to California (aka where Starfleet Academy is) thus it would make perfect sense he'd pronounce things the american way.
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    angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,001 Arc User
    I really like the looks of the Parliament pig-1.gif The California is okay, certainly unique.​​
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    jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,366 Arc User
    "Parliament" is not a common word in the US except in combination with "Funkadelic". The city of Vancouver, WA, like its cousin Vancouver, BC, is named for noted British explorer George Vancouver.

    The California-class ships have "American" (really Spanish, in many cases) names because each one is named for a city in California. If we get those ships in-game, I'm torn between the San Marcos and the Chula Vista.
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    ussvaliant2#1952 ussvaliant2
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    Well we know they will be in the STO before the Nova/Oberth/Saber and SteamRunner but will they be C-Store or Lock Box/Promo Ships?
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    foxrockssocks wrote: »

    Star Trek generally has an anglocentric naming convention. Hood, Enterprise, Excelsior, Yorktown, etc. Now and then you get a Yamato or Akira, but chiefly the names are from the anglosphere I believe. I'd say its because the largest naval tradition with names to draw on comes from the US/UK navies. Japan has its own proud naval tradition for a short time in history, but that doesn't give a lot to draw on. It is also made for an english speaking audience who would associate most of those names with important history.

    But, I guess the question is how many ships have even been named on the show?

    We also got the Shenzhou in Discovery and Zheng He recently in Picard. Both I believe are Chinese? And wouldn't Prometheus be Greek? And Cerritos sounds spanish. Also pretty sure Hood is British. Is there a USS Hood in the US Navy? Only one I can think of is the HMS Hood from WW2.
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    jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,366 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    foxrockssocks wrote: »

    Star Trek generally has an anglocentric naming convention. Hood, Enterprise, Excelsior, Yorktown, etc. Now and then you get a Yamato or Akira, but chiefly the names are from the anglosphere I believe. I'd say its because the largest naval tradition with names to draw on comes from the US/UK navies. Japan has its own proud naval tradition for a short time in history, but that doesn't give a lot to draw on. It is also made for an english speaking audience who would associate most of those names with important history.

    But, I guess the question is how many ships have even been named on the show?

    We also got the Shenzhou in Discovery and Zheng He recently in Picard. Both I believe are Chinese? And wouldn't Prometheus be Greek? And Cerritos sounds spanish. Also pretty sure Hood is British. Is there a USS Hood in the US Navy? Only one I can think of is the HMS Hood from WW2.
    Closest a quick search can find me for the US Navy is a WW2-era battleship named USS John Hood, and a pair of ammunition ships, one from WW2 and another from the Cold War (decommissioned in 1999) named USS Mount Hood.

    Cerritos is a city in southeast Los Angeles County, originally named Dairy Valley but changed in 1967. It means "little hills". Word of God is that all California-class vessels are named for cities in CA.

    Shenzhou, meaning "Divine Land", is one of the historical names for the region now known as China. It's also the name of China's crewed space program; their first crewed craft, launched in 2003, was also called the Shenzhou.

    As for Zheng He, he was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral in the 1400s; he rose to his position by assisting Emperor Yongle in the overthrow of Yongle's predecessor, the Jianwen Emperor. (Interestingly, Jianwen was not the emperor's name; instead, it's the label applied to his reign as second Ming Dynasty emperor, and means "civility". Well, his reign certainly didn't end in a civil fashion...)
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    smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,664 Arc User
    I want a California class, and Lower Decks Bridge Officers.
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    I'll at least take the uniforms.
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    smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,664 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    I'll at least take the uniforms.

    I can almost make those with the academy uniforms, the tops anyhow, and some tight fitting pants, and short boots.
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    rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 58,020 Community Moderator
    edited September 2020
    True. The Academy top is a close match. Just missing the ability to have a strip going down the front like on the actual LD uniforms.
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    Yang Xiao Long wrote:
    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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    legendarylycan#5411 legendarylycan
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    if i end up getting a california, i'll just name mine after one of california's defining features...so, faultline, wildfire or silicone

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    garaffegaraffe Member Posts: 1,353 Arc User
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Definitaly not a fan of the California Class (Cerritos) but the Parliament Class (Vancouver) is a cool looking ship.

    My thoughts exactly.
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    disqord#9557 disqord
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    I can't wait for them to add the costumes and ships and lots of items and equipment and characters, and then suddenly turn it all into a bunch of cell-shaded 2D sprite effects a week later, because CBS doesn't allow non-cartoon depictions of anything LD.

    Honestly though, I'm still surprised we haven't seen anything from Picard, save Seven and a single ship. I'd be surprised if we get anything Lower Decks before 3 years of Picard story shoehorning.
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    jcswwjcsww Member Posts: 6,790 Arc User
    I would like to see more than just the ships. Maybe a visit to an animated parallel universe where it looks like the entire mission multi-mission story arc would look like we are playing in the Lower Decks Universe and graphical style.
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    disqord#9557 disqord
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    somtaawkhar wrote: »
    disqord#9557 wrote: »
    Honestly though, I'm still surprised we haven't seen anything from Picard, save Seven and a single ship. I'd be surprised if we get anything Lower Decks before 3 years of Picard story shoehorning.
    I suspect Cryptic is largely holding off on Picard because they have said, since before the show came out, that they had a big year 3 story plan for Picard.

    Cryptic most likely doesn't want to rush to do Picard stuff, only for the show to come out and go in a different narrative direction.

    Like, I would be surprised if the synths, Zhat Vash, and the ancient machine empire, don't play some part in S2 also.

    Considering how they went nuts with a bunch of disconnected Discovery storylines, I agree waiting would be a good idea, but am going to remain surprised that Cryptic hasn't acted on it yet.
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