Shik
Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never
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And more...
USS Breadalbane: "Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little casue for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn."
USS Akureyri: "They were trapped between fire and ice--until Lucifer exploded in their sky and opened up their universe."
USS Jezebel: "When men think and beleive in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to set in."
USS Einthoven: "In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to men."
USS Birkenhead: "So they stood an' was still to the Birken'ead drill, soldier an' sailor, too..."
USS Constitution: "...in order to form a more perfect Union..."
USS Demeter: "When a man has pity on all living creatures, then only is he noble."
USS King George V: "I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through th years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war."
USS Jericho: "Sing we merrily unto God our strength: make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob..."
USS Lance Of Longinus: "This is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end. But this is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
USS Exeter: "Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos."
USS Aleksandr Nevsky: "Arise, you Russian people, in a just battle, in a fight to the death; arise, you people free and brave, defend out fair native land!"
USS Kongo: "...thrice the Father of Heaven split the mountains apart with his thunderbolt."
USS Kaitlin: "I saw the flaring atom-streams and torrents of her myriad universe, ruining along the illimitable inane..."
USS Queen Anne's Revenge: "I will do such things--what they are yet, I know not--but they shall be the terrors of the Earth."
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OnToMars
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"I have not yet begun to fight!" was said by John Paul Jones, father of the American Navy, not by Lord Horation Nelson, famous and beloved Admiral of the Royal Navy.
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quote:Originally posted by OnToMars: "I have not yet begun to fight!" was said by John Paul Jones, father of the American Navy, not by Lord Horation Nelson, famous and beloved Admiral of the Royal Navy.
I made that plauqe years ago and never bothered to check that. Oh well...
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-Steve McQueen as Michael Delaney, LeMans
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OK... I dug up my little ship list... here are a few of my favorites from it:
U.S.S. Galahad, NCC-63485, Akira Class: "One venturous game my hand has won today - another, gallants, yet remains to play." -Homer
U.S.S. Dawntreader, NCC-9771, Constellation Class: "I and this mystery here we stand." -Walt Whitman
U.S.S. Wayfarer, NCC-181, Daedalus Class: "Where we go one, we go all."
U.S.S. Combatant, NCC-74052, Defiant Class: "There is a peace that comes only on the other side of war; if that battle must come, I will fight it."
U.S.S. Zaneryan, NCC-71995, Galaxy Class: "I too have lived a life the sage's way and traveled roads once all too familiar."
U.S.S. Titan, NCC-61752, Nebula Class: "I have held a torch in the darkness to glance upon a truth unknown."
U.S.S. Solstice, NCC-72338, Nova Class: "We turned our eyes toward the heavens, and with outstretched fingers, we touched the face of God."
U.S.S. Gilliland, NCC-53724, Oberth Class: "Thus do wise men reflect and, though distressed, are not overwhelmed."
U.S.S. Caduceus, NCC-58399, Olympic Class: "With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my art." -Hippocratic Oath
U.S.S. Sequence, NCC-81482, Sabre Class: "One sword at least thy rights shall guard, one faithful harp shall praise thee."
U.S.S. Shiloh, NCC-77101, Sovereign Class: "I turned me to the right hand, and set my mind on the other pole, and saw four stars never yet seen by the first people." -Dante
U.S.S. Hawks, NCC-74566, Yeager Class: "A gathering of angels appeared above my head. They sang to me this song of hope, and this is what they said�"
U.S.S. Cadence, NCC-34221, Istanbul Class: "For where you go I shall go, and where you spend the night I shall spend the night. Your people will be my people, and your God my God" -Ruth 1:16
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I couldn't think of anything from the book I'd have to go back and read it again, but it would likely have to be something that Aslan said. Him being all wise and cool
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A thought I've had - might the occaisional appearance of aberrant registration numbers be explained as a new constuction ship with the same name as an earlier vessel -also- inheriting the old ship's registry? So that, 'officially' or 'spiritually' or whatever, they were the same ship?
This is prompted by a Columbia memorial I saw, so:
USS Columbia, NCC-107 - "Their cause greater than the sun, each crewmember a star brighter than those they now touch."
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Except that Columbia was OV-102. And it would only explain the second Defiant class Defiant (ex-Sao Paolo)
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Valles
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quote: Except that Columbia was OV-102.
D'oh!
*sigh* You'd think that about this of all things, I'd remember to do my research.
quote: And it would only explain the second Defiant class Defiant (ex-Sao Paolo)
I see no reason to assume that we would have seen the 'original' ships of the name. The succession of Enterprises would perhaps be due to the fact that this is a tradition, rather than an official policy, and the tradition re: the Enterprise series was established in parallel to the more common modus operandi - because tradition need not neccessarily be consistent or logical.
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Even with the registries of the Enterprises, though, each one is different. The different letters at the end are there for that very reason.... to make the registries different. Having two ships with the same registry number would defeat the purpose of having a registry system, namely to keep track of all the ships.
Case in point: in "Relics" when Scotty asked the computer for a recreation of the bridge of the enterprise, the computer didn't know which one he was taking about until he specified it by registry number.
I can (barely) accept that Sisko painted the late Defiant's number on the Sao Paulo just to be a smart ass, but I believe it was probably changed back to the Sao Paulo's registry after the battle.
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