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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] One might want to think of this in the 24th century context. Perhaps by that time, Columbus' exploits are no big issue? After all, people generally don't associate Queen Victoria or Julius Caesar with the misery they wrought when they no longer have to live with the consequences. A world "de-Columbized" by all the good we see in TNG might not care much about what went wrong back in the early 1500s and plagued us until the mid-2000s, if it's all in the distant past. Note that a major starship is also named after the Soviet general Zhukov, the man who won WWII in Europe. Considered controversial at best, Zhukov probably had far more lives on his conscience than ol' Chris (although most of those were by proxy of Stalin and his "strategic decisions", of course). It can also be argued that Zhukov was elemental in the creation of the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe, and thus to blame for the eventual fates of East European nations. But Zhukov also beat Hitler (or at least the forces lead and symbolized by Zhukov beat those lead and symbolized by Hitler). What *would* a 24th century historian think of him? Would Zhukov and Churchill and Bismarck and Victoria and Columbus and Genghis Khan pale in comparison to some post-20th-century nefarious figure and thus be rehabilitated or forgotten? That apart, Santa Maria IMHO is a perfectly good ship name, unless the catholic faith for some reason has been demonized in the 24th century. And one could argue that the ship should be named "USS Ship Named Santa Maria" if the vessel of Columbus were to be indicated - just like the USN can't have a ship named USS Corpus Christi but must use "USS City of Corpus Christi" to avoid religious controversy. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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