The Akira class is named after the anime. Wonder if there's a Gundam class or a Dragonball class too.
Bad Starship Names
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Is it? I thought it was for the filmmaker.
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, it is named after the 1988 anime film. I'm not sure if we're to take that information as being the in-universe origin of the class name, so maybe there's wiggle room.
For some reason or another, this one popped into my head. It might work for some alien language.
Sesame Street: ABC-DEF-GHI Song - YouTube
Sesame Street: ABC-DEF-GHI Song - YouTube
From what I've read a lot of Anime titles would make for some bad Starship names.
Wonder if there would be an Akira-Class U.S.S. The Major or if they'd just go with Kusanagi instead?
Erewhon is cute.
Military ships I might name after volcanoes…or tornadic events after the towns associated with them:
Guin
Moore
New Richmond
Flint
Worchester
Joplin
Shuttles after storm researchers
Fujita, Doswell, Biddle, etc.
Maybe hurricanes. That might avoid controversy. Maybe ion storms could get those names or something.
Military ships I might name after volcanoes…or tornadic events after the towns associated with them:
Guin
Moore
New Richmond
Flint
Worchester
Joplin
Shuttles after storm researchers
Fujita, Doswell, Biddle, etc.
Maybe hurricanes. That might avoid controversy. Maybe ion storms could get those names or something.
Oh, it should have escape capsules... enough for about half the crew.
They've has ships named after the Plymouth Reliant and the Voyager minivan... hopefully they won't name one after the Edsel.
U.S.S. Harriman. It's a fine ship, it's just that it never arrives where needed until the following Tuesday. 
U.S.S. Harriman. It's a fine ship, it's just that it never arrives where needed until the following Tuesday.
I think it was an error on the side of Utopia Planitia, not Harriman. They should have known that ships carrying the name 'Enterprise' are curiously often 'the only Starship in range' even when at their homebase, and especially prone to this during drydock or extended shore leave time when they're not actually ready yet (either in terms of ship or crew complement).
Speaking of classical British ship names (we did somewhere in the thread, didn't we? 
) - a very important vessel in British naval history was the ship which had the honor of carrying the news of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar back to England, as well as the sad news of his death - the little schooner HMS Pickle!
) - a very important vessel in British naval history was the ship which had the honor of carrying the news of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar back to England, as well as the sad news of his death - the little schooner HMS Pickle!
If/when the Ferengi join the Federation, maybe capitalism would make a comeback and we'd see ships with corporate sponsors/names.
USS Barbie, USS Walmart, USS Slug-o-Cola, USS Come-to-Quark's-Quark's-is-Fun-Come-Right-Now-Don't-Walk-Run
And could you imagine sponsors placing their logos on the sides of ships, like Nascar?
USS Barbie, USS Walmart, USS Slug-o-Cola, USS Come-to-Quark's-Quark's-is-Fun-Come-Right-Now-Don't-Walk-Run
And could you imagine sponsors placing their logos on the sides of ships, like Nascar?
In the novelverse, the Grand Nagus' personal starship is the FMS Wealth. I always thought that was pretty cool.
I also seem to remember a VOY episode (11:59?) which propounded that the Ferengi regard Earth's Wall Street with religious reverence, and make yearly pilgrimages to it. So I can totally see the Ferengi naming starships after other famous moneymakers...FMS Gekko, FMS Buffett, FMS Gates, that type of thing.
(hey, if Starfleet can name ITS ships after notable aliens, such as Gorkon or Shran, then shouldn't alien races be able to name their ships after humans whom they respect? Like I said, there could be a Klingon ship called IKS Rachel Garrett...)
I'm sure that is indeed where the class came from, in-universe. At least it's more likely that the Akira was named for the anime (which has had much influence over Trek) rather than Kurosawa.
Or perhaps it's named after the lead guitarist for Loudness?
I also seem to remember a VOY episode (11:59?) which propounded that the Ferengi regard Earth's Wall Street with religious reverence, and make yearly pilgrimages to it. So I can totally see the Ferengi naming starships after other famous moneymakers...FMS Gekko, FMS Buffett, FMS Gates, that type of thing.
(hey, if Starfleet can name ITS ships after notable aliens, such as Gorkon or Shran, then shouldn't alien races be able to name their ships after humans whom they respect? Like I said, there could be a Klingon ship called IKS Rachel Garrett...)
I'm sure that is indeed where the class came from, in-universe. At least it's more likely that the Akira was named for the anime (which has had much influence over Trek) rather than Kurosawa.
Or perhaps it's named after the lead guitarist for Loudness?
(hey, if Starfleet can name ITS ships after notable aliens, such as Gorkon or Shran, then shouldn't alien races be able to name their ships after humans whom they respect? Like I said, there could be a Klingon ship called IKS Rachel Garrett...)
I think it would be very weird for Federation Starfleet not to have ships named after important historical people from other (founding) member species than humans, assuming they have ships named after humans. Gorkon might be a slightly different story, but he actively pursued for peaceful relations with the Federation, making him an important figure to the Federation in his own right.
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What, you wouldn't want to serve aboard the USS Read or Die? How about the USS Irresponsible Captain Tylor?From what I've read a lot of Anime titles would make for some bad Starship names.
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Not terribly likely, as all of the Fortress of Solitude scenes were shot on a soundstage at Pinewood Studios.Imagine being Richard Donner and scoping out filming spots up there for Superman's fortress of solitude ice palace.
Sometimes the novelists pick very odd names for Starships that throw me out of the story when I read them. Usually it's just when a name doesn't sound very Star Trek to me. Looking over Memory Beta, here are some of the stranger names to me:
The USS Albatross (Considering the general connotation of "albatross" is something that's weighing you down, this seems like an exceptionally bad name)
The USS Benevolence
The USS Bonhomme Richard (Two word Starship names just never sound "right" to me, even if they're drawn from history)
The USS Carla Winterspoon
The USS Daredevil (They're big Matt Murdock fans in the future, I guess)
The USS Graf Zeppelin
The USS Lick (Whaa--?
)The USS Lydia Sutherland (Now I know that it's a Horatio Hornblower reference, but it just sounded weird to me when I first read Enterprise: The First Adventure)
The USS Magellanic Clouds (Just a clunky name all around)
The USS Malevolent (Doesn't exactly sound in keeping with the values of the Federation)
The USS Dr. Margaret Flynn
The USS Porksauce (Naming Starships after a 2am bender is never going to end well)
The USS Punxsutawney
The USS Robert E. Lee (Really? We're naming Starships after Confederate Generals now? REALLY?!?)
The USS Terminator (This would make sense in the Mirror Universe)
The USS Vindictive (...So the Starship bears a grudge?)
I remember playing that song on my parents' old turntable, about 40y ago. That and Oscar's "I Love Trash", and "Lookin' at my Feet at a Crack in the Sidewalk". Ah the memories...
The true tragedy of Gen. Lee is that he was probably the best general in that war. If he'd only decided to fight for the Union, it might have ended much sooner, and with fewer casualties.
Not trying to defend an awful name like that, but I assume that happened in the 70s/80s/90s when that whole "Lost Cause" myth (that the civil war was purely about state rights) was still alive in popular culture and that name was still deemed acceptable to many people. I mean that was still a world when X-Men comics had Rogue fantasize a whole dream sequence about the "romantic" Old South
I mean with the things we know and have acknowledged today a USS Columbus is just as unfortunate a name
