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Mim, there was no ship named that. It was just an example of what a ship with an alien name could be. And generally, the US Navy has no policy or pattern with how they name ships after people. Many ships have the full name of a person, while possibly an equal number of ships only have the last name. I assume this is true of Starfleet was well.
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"I seem to remember a thread back in 1999 where someone opined that naming a ship Sao Paulo was disrespectful to a fine ship of the Defiant-class, seeing as it's the name of a city in South America and therefore full of wetbacks, dagoes and spics. . . and that instead it should be named after a decent American town full of God-fearing white people."
Though I stay up every night praying that in the morning I will wake up and somehow some tiny aspect of Leeness will have rubbed off on me, I must point out that it was you who made said comment in the first place, much to our bewilderment. (Though, as careful consumers of all things postmodern we were quick to assimilate your cultural criticism within its intended ironic context.)
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mmmm..
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But I wasn't the one who made this vehement attack on the whole idea of naming a starship after a South American city. Whoever it was, though, declined to give his reasons and scuttled out of that thread with his tail between his legs, leaving me to speculate freely and, I suspect, quite accurately.
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poet: the Odyssey's ded plaque says "Its origin and purpose, still a total mystery." 8)
Humm.... that sounds like a description of the XGP from Outlaw Star.
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