quote:And BTW, the ship was named (as MunitiaeMan said, though I'm not sure why he thinks it's not a good name) for General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of British forces in North America during the Revolutionary War.
Uhh, yeah. The same reason why there's no USS (Benedict) Arnold, or any USS (George) Burnside? Because not only was he a hated leader in charge of a military occupation, but he also got chased out by those people. Not exactly the most successful military mind deserving of a ship-naming in my book...
Yes, perhaps from the average American's point of view, but Starfleet isn't an United States organization. It's an United Earth organization, so of course it's going to have historical figures from ALL nations' pasts. Same reason why there's a U.S.S. Cortez and a U.S.S. Potemkin. There's multiple sides to every story when it comes to history, especially military history.
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Ever think that gage might be bolian for "fearless" or something? Mabye it commerates a Vucan colony or a noted astrophysist from 100 years from now....
FUck it: it's the future and with 150 races mixing up the pot o' potential ship names, the only real question is why there are so many from earth at all!
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quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: I'm mid-way through building a Apollo class starship right now based on the ASDB concept (the Miranda-ized Ambassador: sans pod though). No way do we need yet another damn Miranda variant!
Yay!...wait, why sans pod? The pod is the heart of that design!
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