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My guess would be that the real life answer is that it was picked because it sounded cool and it went along with the nature of the story.
The Star Trek answer could quite possibly be that it was named after the probes and that it just coincidently went along with what happened to the ship.
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Hello, I haven't posted since the last millenium, but I've been lurking a bit lately and thought I might give it another go.
I've always assumed that Voyagerwas named for the NASA probes. Are their any canon references to sister ships that might give us a clue? If there were a U.S.S. Pioneer, Viking,or Sojourner, that would probably seal it.
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Wait so it could have been named after my Ford Probe? Does Nick Meyer have a Plymouth Reliant? Dodge Intrepid-class? Was it a Ford Explorer type vessel? Or a Ford Escort like the Defiant?
No other canon Intrepids exist besides the U.S.S. Bellerophon i think.
As for other ships of the Intrepid class, there was a U.S.S. Pathfinder in a comic. Sounds like a possible probe name.
Others Intrepids listed in comics & novels: USS Sagan, USS Stargazer II. I forget what Captain MacDonald's Intrepid was called in the latest Shatner novel, it went down in flames over Halkan with Kirk's wife in it.
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The real question is, "Is the conspiracy in Hollywood or Detroit?"
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That crash scene was totally pants and unrealistic! It was so crap and hilariously pathetic that I was laughing for a month! Surely the producers know that such an impact would totally destroy the ship not let it "glide" over the surface. Things like that just piss me off - we want realistic crashes!
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And now that I've got that off my chest I feel so much better. HEHE!
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I'll see your '?' and raise you a '?!' I mean, c'mon, Aykaychops, you're a Brit, you're letting the side down with all this literalism. The correct response would be to ask what happened, was he OK, etc. (he was OK, the main damage was to the car, the mailbox and his pride - because I laughed at him a lot) - NOT to go off into some blah about fucking Voyager, for fucks sake! If we wanted to talk about Voyager, we'd be at TrekWeb. 8)
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