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Where did these, sometimes odd, names came frome?
USS Crazy Horse USS Lalo USS Lantree USS Shir Kahr USS Sitak USS T'Kumbra USS Thomas Paine USS Bozeman USS Zapata USS John Muir USS Sarek USS Scovil USS Shika Maru (I only know Maru is a ship suffix/prefix used in the Japanese Navy, wich makes USS useless...) SS Robert Fox SS Woden
PS My favorite canon starship name is U.S.S. Silversides (very poetic!)
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Robert Fox is the Federation Ambassador from "A Taste of Armageddon"
Shir Kahr is supposedly the capital of Vulcan, where Spock was born.
And, as for USS, they did say United StarShip on TOS, but, from what I think, the United is merely short for United Federation of Planets.
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The Sitak and T'kumbra is also Vulcan, I'm guessing important historical people, there was also a Vulcan admiral Sitak in "Sacrifice of Angels" the same episode the USS Sitak was featured. I think Scovil is Russian.
USS was referred as United Space Ship in "The Cage".
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lalo \La"lo\, n. The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras.
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Does this mean that French composers grow on Baobab trees? I suppose that also means African cooks used French seasonings in their soups?
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You also mentioned Thomas Paine. He was an author during the United States' Revolution who wrote the essay "Common Sense," generally credited with boosting the morale of a war-weary army and population. At the time it sold over 100,000 copies, an astounding feat of publishing for the day.
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Though Thomas Paine himself was British, no?
And though I personally prefer Sitak, it is quite possible that the ship in question was actually named after the USS SeaTac, named after the unfortunate city of the same name that happens to be located between Seattle and Tacoma.
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Which someone already mentioned, though not in such detail. :-)
Anyone know specifically who or what Lantree and Scovil are? I did a very little bit of looking and didn't see anything.
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I too think that USS stands for (United Federation of Planets Starship... not just United Starship... makes more sense seeing as Klingon ships are IKC Imperial Klingon Cruiser...
NCC is a toughy of course - some thinking its Naval Construction Contract... Matt Jefferies said that the US ships are NC - and the Russian ships just happened to be CCC... (well Soviet Ships)
I was thinking about this one day and I think that the N is actually again short for Federation
The CC is possibly anything... Federation Construction Contract fits I guess...
What about NAR - they are federation ships - the n fits but the A and the R - they are also constructed so that seems to cancel the Construction Contract for the NCC...
NAR is used for non Starfleet ships.
Federation Assembly Registration?
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According to Bjo Trimbles "Star Trek Corcordance," Jack Scovil is (or was) an American astronaut. I thought that he was a shuttle astronaut, but I couldn't find him on any NASA astronaut lists.
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