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Currently in my great register project, I'm working on the Hypergiant-class (formerly Cibola-class) tankers. These ships are named after astronomical objects & terms. (solar eclipse, ring of Jupiter, planetary nebula, Vodrey Nebula, Delphic Expanse, Kuiper Belt object, etc).
However...I'm rather surprised to say that there seems to be a dearth of usable items. Far less than I thought, to be honest. That being said, do you think that for a support vessel like this, Starfleet would use a general name? For example, NGC 5078 is a lenticular galaxy with no other name. Would USS NGC 5078 fly, y'think?
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Er...maybe not "USS Fatboy"- the KLingons would laugh.
There's a zillion people that have made astounding and relativly unknown contributions to our society and science- dig through some history books. I have a USS Doolittle for example (my grandma was his secretary for two years and still has his "flying wings" lapel pin).
Max A nice USS Shoemaker (for Gene Shoemaker) would be nice- a science ship, naturally.
Then there's the many heroes of modern physics (overshadowed by Einstien, unfotunately) like Planck and Niels Bhor.
How about Thomas savery- who built the frst engine....and brought the industrial revolution into full swing.
Or just make up vulcan-sounding names, like I occasionally do.
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Well, there is precedent: the US Navy has has USS LST 1157 & the like. It's just...well, I can make up stuff easily, but then there's gonna be a LOT of "XXX Nebula" & "YYY Star Cluster" & such.
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USS Gonala, Nebula Class USS Manila, Miranda Class USS Quezon City, Miranda Class USS Taipei, Akira Class USS Baton Rouge, Norway Class USS Northridge, Ambassador Class USS Mission Hills, Excelsior Class USS Vekalar, Excelsior Class
I'd say they sound fine...
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:::covers eyes & shakes head::: MISSING! THE POINT!
Focus, people..!
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Well I expect that while the distant galaxies maybe wouldn't get names for a while yet, by the time there were freighters and colonists and aliens bopping around between them there wouldn't be so many catalogue and number names. Which is to say, you should make shit up. USS Mintakan Ice Ring, USS Gordon Smirch Nebula, USS Umbeke Quicksilver Satellite, USS Acturan Conjunction, etc. I'm sure among the approx 7050 "gaseous anomalies" (srsly, wtf?) our heroes of every frickin' Trek show have encountered/made contact with there would be some good canon-esque names.
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"Acturan Conjunction...what's your fun-tion?"
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Shik, don't forget that many of those objects have probably received names from cultures that live closer to the neighborhood of those phenomena. Just make up lots of alien-sounding names!
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USS Astronomical Unit. The men on board will enjoy the pun, anyway.
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Yeah, I was thinking of that myself, MM & Bx. I went scouring & the names of astronomical objects in Trek is woefully low. But this morning, I thought about the same thing. NGC 6781, for example, a planetary nebula in Aquila. Maybe there's a "local name" for it, the A'argok Nebula. Or something.
Also, you'd think there would be more fun things like Scutum Arm, cubewano, & the like. Alas.
...How many ringed planets have we seen in Alpha & Beta Quads? If any.
(And Bx? TOTALLY stealing those names.)
quote:Originally posted by HerbShrump: USS Fatboy...
"I BEG your PARdon?!?" "Fat Boy. The name of the bomb." "That's Fat MAN, you blistering idiot...!!"
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I think it's a combination of the names of the first two, Fat Man and Little Boy. A fusion, if you will...
I've used the names of planets, life-forms, and personalities from all forty years of Trek material, aired and written.
As for ringed planets, there have been a few, but I will have to rewatch TNG to get their names.
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Sliders. Early years. S1, I believe. Bennish builds The Bomb to save Earth from asteroid doom. Reluctantly, Arturo pairs with him. That conversation ensues after Bennish blurts out, "Fat Boy..!"
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We see a ringed planet at the start of TNG every week. I'm sure there were a few others, although if it's names you're after that'd be more tricky.
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