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I finished my Cheyenne class model. Again the question, where does the name come from? But otherwise, here are some pics. Hope you like. And please, not too many comments about the non-cannonality bottom. I wanted to spruce it up some.
Shik
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Nice ship...I just wish McDaniel's ship names didn't suck the ass of the dog. Honshu? Someone didn't do their homework. I like the name Hopi, though...as long as they're not all tribal names.
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What's wrong with naming ships after Indian tribes? The US Navy has a long tradition of giving ships Indian names, such as Powhatan, Montauk, Nahant, Weehawken, Pawnee, Choctaw, Tecumseh, etc. Furthermore, traditionally, the names within a class usually follow the name of the lead ship. For example, Los Angeles-class ships are all named after US cities and US battleships are all named after states. So if the lead ship is the name of an Indian tribe, the rest of the ship would also take names of tribes.
With this reasoning, Honshu makes more sense as a sister ship of Kyushu than of Nebula. Of course, post-TOS starfleet did away with any rational naming system. At least the Constitution class ships all took their names from famous warships of the past. Who's McDaniel?
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[This message has been edited by Masao (edited September 04, 2000).]
Shik
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I know that, Masao...it's just that I'm not a fan of "all ships in this class are named for" stuff. I can see it, yes...to a point.
I like the idea of naming support vessels in that fashion, although I followed the Saladin-class method of using important folks when I extended the line. But science vessels after scientists, medical ships after medical folks....sure. Hell, 90% of my Excelsior-class names come from ancient Earth history, my Sonoma-class freighters are named for mountains & islands, my Kings Bay class after waterways, gulf, sounds, & other things like that, & my Proteus-class is named after Sol-system moons & planetary formations.
It's just that the "Well, 'Cheyenne' & 'Ahwahnee' are tribal names, so all these ships must be named after Native Americans" logic train irks me. It makes sense for today's navies t'do with combat vessels...but for a multicultural society like the Federation? :::shakes head::: Hinky.
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Multiculturalism should be expressed in ship names, but of course 99% of Starfleet ships are already Earth names and more than half may be American or British names. I'm not defending this practice, but since this show is produced in the US and most of the writers are Americans, I guess they can't help it.
Personally, I wish that Starfleet had all ships of the class follow the lead ship, but it's too late for that, I guess. If nothing else it brings a little more order to the names and helps you tell which class a ship comes from. The trouble was that a lot of Trek ship names were thought up piecemeal, often without a class whereas in real life names are assigned all at once.
If you think that using Native American tribe names is too limiting, perhaps we could include names of other indigenous peoples (wiped out, or nearly so, by majority races), such as USS Ainu (indigenous people of Japan) or indigenous peoples of other planets?
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Well, don't rag in McDaniel. I picked both names when I ordered the decals. I messed up the Honshu because I didn't do my reasearch. I thought it made sense at the time. Oh well. And thanks for the compliments. That would be cool if they used my stuff, huh?
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I'll kill everyone who still says the Cheyenne is an ugly design.
I love the bottom too. Since we don't know what is actually there, I definitely prefer something else than a mirrored upper side. If it's ever revealed what the underside of Miarecki's model looks like there are just two class variants.
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I used the top parts to the Excelsior's warp nacelles. (You know, the small pieces that go on the ends.) I cut off the parts that points toward the center of the nacelles, glued them together and then sanded them smooth. Hope that makes sense.
But I didn't put any photo-torps on the back, but the bottom pylon assembly loos just like the top. I think there's supposed to be a black dot where the torp launcher is suposed to be, but I didn't paint it. I may fix that later. I would have shown some back views, but my pictures didn't turn out so well.
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(why is this not remembering my User name and password, Chris?)
WOW! Superb work. I've followed the progress of this model for months, its nice to see the final product. You gave me permission to use your New Orleans model on my site, may I assume I can add some pics of this model too? Its just to pretty not to showcase...
I thought it made sense at the time. Oh well. And thanks for the compliments. That would be cool if they used my stuff, huh? 
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