I dunno, Powell I could see, or Dole (and remember, in The Orville the ship is named after the Wright brother(s)) but naming the ships after fictional characters indicates that the characters were real in their world, which pretty much removes Star Trek from being seen as a "possible future for ourselves."
And it's bad enough when people forget that everything great in Star Trek comes AFTER World War III.
"The gunboat Lady Washington was commissioned in 1776 and was the first American armed ship named for a woman. She was a row galley, a small wooden river gunboat, built in 1776 by New York State to defend Hudson River, named in honor of Martha Washington. She remained active, under General Washington's command, through June 1777."
Reply by LansingFan
on December 6, 2021 at 5:23 PM
The USS Elsa Faust.
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on December 9, 2021 at 11:10 AM
USS Metamorphosis.
Reply by LansingFan
on December 9, 2021 at 8:31 PM
USS Melange
Reply by LansingFan
on December 9, 2021 at 8:59 PM
USS Eugene Goodman
Reply by LansingFan
on December 12, 2021 at 2:39 PM
USS Colin Powell
USS Edward Straker
USS Scott Tracey
Reply by Knixon
on December 12, 2021 at 3:16 PM
I dunno, Powell I could see, or Dole (and remember, in The Orville the ship is named after the Wright brother(s)) but naming the ships after fictional characters indicates that the characters were real in their world, which pretty much removes Star Trek from being seen as a "possible future for ourselves."
And it's bad enough when people forget that everything great in Star Trek comes AFTER World War III.
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on December 26, 2021 at 4:58 PM
USS Achiever.
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on December 27, 2021 at 3:44 PM
Wouldn't that be: USS Kirk's Interspecies F-ckpad?
Reply by LansingFan
on January 2, 2022 at 4:50 AM
USS George Patton
Reply by sukhisoo
on January 2, 2022 at 8:53 AM
USS Lazarus
Reply by LansingFan
on January 7, 2022 at 5:32 AM
USS Douglas MacArthur.
Reply by FormerlyKnownAs
on January 19, 2022 at 11:11 PM
USS Betty White.
"The gunboat Lady Washington was commissioned in 1776 and was the first American armed ship named for a woman. She was a row galley, a small wooden river gunboat, built in 1776 by New York State to defend Hudson River, named in honor of Martha Washington. She remained active, under General Washington's command, through June 1777."
Reply by LansingFan
on January 20, 2022 at 8:34 AM
USS Mountbatten
Reply by LansingFan
on January 23, 2022 at 6:09 PM
USS Matthew Henson (Mr. Henson was an African-American Explorer who co-discovered the North Pole)
Reply by Knixon
on January 23, 2022 at 6:35 PM
"Discovering" things like the North Pole never sounds right to me. First expedition to, sure. But it didn't really need to be "discovered."
And even with the first name included, I think most people would think it referred to the creator of the Muppets.