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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Styrofoaman: [qb] [QUOTE]Perhaps SF operates separately from the political side of the UFP, sort of quasi-autonomously. [/QUOTE]Uh, no. People in starships with massive firepower roaming space with no political control. Hmmmmm seems to be a bad baaad idea to me. [/qb][/QUOTE]I never said it was a good idea, did I? :) Who makes the decisions regarding the elimination of the Borg? Admiral Necheyev. Who organises defence of Earth and doesn't notify anyone? Admiral Paris. Who makes Worf an ambassador? Admiral Ross. Who decides to help the Klingons in TUC? The SF CinC. How many of the Federation Council Members in TVH are SF Admirals? Lots. Some of these are probably wrong/inaccurate, but you get the picture. :) We never see anyone non-Starfleet make any big decisions except in Homefront, which shows an unopposed (except by Sisko) SF takeover of Earth. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Griffworks: [qb] Well, you actually do have a precedent for political naming of vessels in the Trek universe - the "Vulcan" registry shuttle we see in ST:TMP is named for Surak, founder of the Logic Movement on Vulcan, and I believe there are one or two other StarFleet vessels with Vulcan names, as well as the [i]Excelsior[/i] class starship [i]Gorkon[/i], named in honor of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon who was assassinated in ST:VI. [/qb][/QUOTE]But that's a shuttle, not a ship. Aren't shuttles named by the ship's captain? (If not, Voyager must have a lot of unnamed shuttles hanging around). It's also more of a "religious" or "philosophical" naming than a political one, kind of like USS Aristotle perhaps. And Gorkon wasn't a Federation politician, he was a Klingon. Another thing is that SF doesn't follow the US practice of naming a ship with the full name of a person - it's USS Chekhov, not USS Pavel Chekhov or USS Pavel D Chekov (I don't know if he has a middle name, but he's Russian, so he should have a patronymic). I think it sounds a lot better this way. USS George H W Bush is so unwieldly, and definately doesn't sound like a warship. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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