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Can someone suggest a good caption for my shiplist for the U.S.S. Cairo? What was its role in "Preemptive Strike" (TNG), etc...? That part's not in the Encyclopedia.
Thanks, -MMoM
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"Shuttled Admiral Nechayev to the Enterprise-D in late 2370."
Note: We did see stock footage of an Excelsior-class ship in "Pre-emptive Strike," as the ship that delivered Nechayev to the Enterprise. It was never referred to as the Cairo in dialogue, but on Page 471 of the encyclopedia, it lists the Cairo as being in "Pre-emptive Strike." Since we only saw one other Starfleet ship in the episode, the Excelsior-class, we can deduce this was the Cairo. Hope this clears things up, MMoM.
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I put this together after visiting a few ship sites. Some of it may not be quite accurate, bt I think it is.
The Cairo transported Vice-Admiral Necheyev to the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D in 2370. It was commanded by Capt. Edward Jellico, before (and, I assume, after) he took command of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701D. ("Chain of Command"TNG) Later captained by Capt. Leslie Wong.("You Are Cordially Invited"DS9) Disappeared on patrol of the Romulan Neutral Zone in 2374(two weeks before "In the Pale Moonlight"DS9)
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Huh? The skipper of the Cairo when she was lost was Leslie Wong. "Admiral" Jellico was being pestered by Mackenzie Calhoun at the time, according to numerous "New Frontier" novels...
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If the name was never spoken in dialogue, should it correctly be pronounced "kigh-row," for the city in Egypt, or "kay-row," for the city in Illinois? The USN had a famous ironclad during the civil war named after the latter. Also is "kigh-row" the correct Arabic pronunciation (for the Egyptian city)?
(Does anybody care?)
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It was spoken in dialogue in "Chain of Command," IIRC, and sounded the same way I've always pronounced Egypt's largest city.
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Why does it have to be destroyed, maybe it was crippled and lost ability to communicate? What if it is on/was on some secret mission. What if it fell through a wormhole!?!
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are we having a hard time accepted that some starships were destroyed in the Dominion War.. watch 'Interface' and learn that sometimes ships go bye-bye for no reason whatsoever
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It's definitely the name of the egyptian city. Why sould anyone name the ship for some nearly unknown U.S. village at the edge of nowhere?
Or Bozeman? Or Concord?
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quote:or Concord
Y'ever heard of the American Revolution?
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Well, Bozeman and Billings are two cities in Braga's home state of Montana. That's the only reason those names were used. If you want to justify the names in the Star Trek Universe, I'd say that whoever was in charge of naming ships must have been hard up for names. That, or Starfleet has so many ships that they got down to naming them after very obscure Earth cities. I can think up a million better names for ships than those two.
And to my knowledge, there are no current U.S. or other naval vessels with the names "Bozeman" or "Billings."
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Maybe in the 22nd century Bozeman became a center of the new Earth governemnt, and the inventor of the self-sealing stembolt came from Billings.. besides there are MANY current naval ships that have names that i think you name-elitists would thumb your nose at, so get over it
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