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Signatures are for losers

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"Synthetic scotch, synthetic Commanders...."
-Scotty

Tsiolkovsky and Prokofiev (I think...) are both composers.

Also, do not forget the USS Renaissance.

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"No, 3 & 6 are mandatory, so you only have to do them if you want"

Alex, fellow classmate, trying to explain an assignment (2/2/01)

As long as Starfleet claims it is not, unlike most earth naval fleets, solely military, I don't see anything wrong with naming ships after artists. I think anyone who appears put on currency or stamps is fair game!

(I'm referring to stamps of reputable countries, not those of countries that put Pokemon and the Little Mermaid on their stamps to make money. If you are from one of these shabby little countries, I mean no disrespect. Of course, the US puts Bugs Bunny on its stamps too.)

Anyways, when I name ships after people who probably don't deserve to have ships named after them, I try to maintain plausible deniability. Let's say you've named a ship after Brittney Spears (USS Spears). If someone questions you on it, you should be able to deny that you named it after her; instead, you say, it was named after Sir Benjamin Throckmorton Spears, the 19th century inventor of a process for refining selenium, which allowed the invention of quantum flux communications. Your questioner nods, claiming, "oh, yes, I've heard of him."

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When you're in the Sol system, come visit the Starfleet Museum

I haven't yet got a USS Britney Spears. But I am thinking about it........

:-)

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"Synthetic scotch, synthetic Commanders...."
-Scotty

I win. 24,629 names so far. Out of a needed 100,344 by the end of the year. I'm a little behind. And out of those 24,629 names, 19,425 of them are original, meaning the remaining 5204 are reuses. Not bad for 25,000 names.

"But I've used many of the established, and traditional naming methods that we're used to in Trek."

Me, too. But I'm breaking that habit. Alien names are surprisingly easy ones you get the hang of it.

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"'I don't CARE who started it, I'm tired, and I WANT QUIET!!!!! Or I'm going to come up there and flatten the BOTH of you!' And he meant it. And we'd stop. Or he would." --Foreign policy as laid down by First of Two's dad

I have a USS Siegfried, named from the hero of the Richard Wagner opera cycle and Norse mythology. I've also used a USS Tannhauser and USS Lohengrin (two other Wagner operas).

I've named other starships the USS Eroica (Beethoven's Third Symphony, the USS Firebird and USS Petrushka (two Stravinsky ballets), the USS Appalachian Spring and USS Rodeo (both Aaron Copland ballets), and the USS Requiem (Mahler's Fourth Symphony). As you probably guess, I was a music education major my first two years in college.

Some of my ships names have literary beginnings. There's the USS Gandalf and USS Shadowfax from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I've also used a USS Asimov and USS Dickinson. For one creative writing assignment, I used a USS Red Fern since we had just finished Where the Red Fern Grows.

I also have the tendency to name ships after my friends. I've the USS Borgfeldt, which was named for my high school band director, and the USS Woodyard, named for the first woman I ever fell in love with.

Still other ships I named because of the influence they've had on me. I've used a USS Maritza (named for the artist of my favorite webcomic) and the USS Schulz (author of Peanuts). There's the USS Ezekiel (taken from the UH Administration Building: Ezekiel Cullen Building) and the USS Cavalier (named for my faithful car).