I was wondering was Voyager named after the Voyager 1 & 2 space probes or was it just a name picked out at random?
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
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.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
It was actually named after the caravan. True story. Braga bought a caravan, and said "Hey! Let's name the new ship after my car!"
Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
Well, he could have done worst.
Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
Untrue story.
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
I would hope so, given that I just made it up.
Posted by Dane Simri (Member # 272) on :
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.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
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.
Posted by Dane Simri (Member # 272) on :
The real question is, "Is the conspiracy in Hollywood or Detroit?"
Posted by The Vorlon (Member # 52) on :
I drive an Intrepid-Class Carship
=P
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
Such a shame you had to go re-create the "Voyager crashing into the ice planet" scene using a mailbox.
8P
Posted by akb1979 (Member # 557) on :
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!
. . .
And now that I've got that off my chest I feel so much better. HEHE!
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
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Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
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)
Posted by The Vorlon (Member # 52) on :
*glare*
Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
*giggle*
Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
TrekWeb? Ick. Is it as bad as TrekBBS?
Posted by Dr. Jonas Bashir (Member # 481) on :
It's actually a little worse.
IMHO, of course.
Posted by Eclipse (Member # 472) on :
I remember reading somewhere that the Voyager was at one point going to have been the Excalibur, and the series The Excalibur Voyages. That might be apocryphal, though.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I was hopeing that they would do a comercial, with the bridge crew, going to lunch, Mulgrew giving orders as they pile into a Voyager, McNeil as the driver. (Perhaps running over a mailbox, or something like that.)
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
oh, trekBBS isn't so bad as long as you ignore everyone else and only read the posts that you actually wrote and NEVER EVER EVER read any posts that others wrote in response to what you posted. hey, i'm a commander at trekbbs! snay, despite the fact that i don't know you *sob*, i think you would probably like the trekbbs demigod mr. stinkypants. oh yeah, the subject at hand. i think that voyager was named that because USS Fucking Stupid Shit would have alienated all the people who actually liked the series.
--jacob
wow, what a fragmented post i just posted. damn skyy. oh, i'm sorry skyy! you know how much i love thee. there there, let me comfort you and drink your innards, you wonderful friend you. so shapley on the outside, and comely on the inside. you go so well with so many things. i haven't seen your friend vermouth in a while, maybe we should go find him. *sigh*
[ December 01, 2001: Message edited by: EdipisReks ]
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Yay! Another humorous and slightly strange poster!
Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :
it only happens occasionaly. i'm not quite as funny in the religion discussion up at the enterprise forum.
--jacob
[ December 01, 2001: Message edited by: EdipisReks ]
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"i think that voyager was named that because USS Fucking Stupid Shit would have alienated all the people who actually liked the series."
