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Yamato would be a good Sovereign, but I could imagine that name was reused a loooooooong time ago...wonder if they ever replaced it with one of the later model Galaxies, considering it bit the dust so young in its career...I cannot believe that they would downgrade the name to an Excelsior the next time around.
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I've used one Sovreign class in my RPG campaign, the USS Akhenaten.
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A long time ago, I tried writing my own Star Trek series. Originally, it featured a Sovereign-class USS Cavalier. After a big retooling, the Cavalier became a Galaxy-class and a Sovereign-class USS Eroica would pop up occassionally.
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You mean 'retooling' story-wise, right? It took me a few read-throughs of that post to realize you probably didn't mean the physical rebuilding of a Sovereign into a Galaxy. *heh*
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What I always want to see is more nonhuman names. The Federation supposedly contains dozens of member races, yet all ship names come from Earth. I think I vaguely remember hearing of a USS Surak (?), but that's the only exception I can think of.
Ships are usually named after people (Tsiolkovsky, Bradbury), places (Jenolan, Kyushu), important events (Tian Nan Men, Lexington), or ideals/virtues (Reliant, Intrepid). So...
Who was the first Tellarite astronaut? Who was the captain of the Vulcan ship that made First Contact with Earth? What do you call the eastern continent of Betazed? Do Andorians name their glaciers? What's the Caitian word for "Intrepid?" And so on.
In some old movie-era suff I have from the 80s, there's a starship class named S'Harien, after the famous Vulcan swordsmith, and two cruisers with Denebian names: USS Raan and USS Sur Cha. I always rather liked little details like that; it makes the Federation seem more real.
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Indeed. I have a Defiant-class Le Matya in my ship list, as well as the odd Solkar, Gol, Thelev, Kamarag, Azet'bur, and so on... Every time we get treated to a non-Terran Federation city, river, mountain, desert, lake, military hero, or whatever, I make a note of it. It's a fun little exercise.
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quote:Originally posted by Timo: Trek naming "systems" in general abhor all thematic or alliterative logic, so any of the names above would sound good, but not all of them together.
Channeling Franz Joseph, we could of course have
USS Sovereign *Snip* USS Secretary General
USS Vozhd
Maybe not...
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quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: I think I vaguely remember hearing of a USS Surak (?), but that's the only exception I can think of.
USS Gorkon. In "Redemption II", I think.
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quote:Originally posted by Peregrinus: You mean 'retooling' story-wise, right? It took me a few read-throughs of that post to realize you probably didn't mean the physical rebuilding of a Sovereign into a Galaxy. *heh*
With a set of Craftsman power tools, a calculator, and some chicken vindaloo, I bet I'd able to do that. Anyway, yeah, story retooling. Like my many other writing projects, it's just several pages of ideas in my notebook. Collecting dust. Never to see the life I imagined for them.
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Well, "Thelev" was posing as an Andorian, so one assumes it's an Andorian name. I'm sure with a little imagination we could invent a real Thelev worth naming a ship after. =)
On the other hand, Kamarag? "There shall be no peace while Kirk lives" Kamarag? I dunno about that one...
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Changing the entry now to Shras.
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