Need A Name For An Original Constitution Class Starship

good thing it's non-canon cause that is one fucking ugly design.

looks like the Edsel of starships.

A second warning for this post, from Lanzman no less!

Fucking pathetic.

The loathsome arse kissing of Dayton as he manipulates the place to shit is utterly disgusting.

I suppose I'll get a warning for this post as well.

How about a ban just to satisfy your suckling of his bollocks?

How about you remember which forum you're in and behave yourself?

How about you tell me which rule the post you just warned me for broke.

How about you have the testicles to respond to the PM I just sent you instead of trying to have a public debate over it?

The latter tactic is why the moderating cabal on this board is bullshit. None of you have the bollocks to talk to people you don't like via PM.

I've always been of the notion (as mentioned in the original Star Trek Technical Manual) that after the success of the original 12-14 Constitution class vessels (depends on whom you ask), that the Federation built more than 100 of the ships.

Odyssey sounds nice, sort of like saying plutonium.

I've never gotten a single PM from El Chup.

Boom!

The USS Empedocles.

The name of a major star ship has to be something big or grand.

How about Polaris, the north star.

There is a literary precedent for this.

I would counter that being few of them means they are very special and expensive and that in that era they couldn't field a fleet that large

Then by, say, the post V-ger era they begin to increase the size of the fleet (of ships of that size or larger) noteably over the next couple of decades

In Historical terms, Kirk's "navy" during TOS is analogous to pre-WW2 U.S. navy and during his latter years, it's more like the cold-war era. Explain it by noting that once they realized the Romulans were a legitimate threat on par with the Klingons they realized they needed a bigger fleet.

Which, is kind of the same thing you are driving at but I would say if you are speaking of events during the "five year mission" you are certainly not going to have more than 20 Conny class ships out there.

In what way is Dayton trolling or manipulating with this thread?

You don't like Dayton. Okay. We get it.

Post within the rules or don't. But if you don't you have no right to bitch about any warning.

Peter David used Excalibur for his ST: Excalibur series.

I'll second the Dardenelles suggestion.

You're too late.

Odyssey, Kitty Hawk, Armstrong, Challenger, Aquarius, Eagle, Monitor, Salamis, Pioneer, Einstein, Canaveral, Baikonur, Vostok, Titov.

Middle Eastern? Saladin, Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Omar Khayyam, Sargon, Jericho, Samson, Solomon, Cyrus the Great.

I like "Sargon" real well, too. But then, I'm a history nerd...

Sargon agrees!

The USS Omar Khayyam would obviously be a Ruby Yacht-class vessel.

USS Meca

USS Mohammed

If Botany Bay can be a ship (albeit a non-starfleet cargo vessel), then surely a starship can be named after any major city or country.

Constantinople
Istanbul
Ulan Batar
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Madrid
Mumbai
Jakarta
Singapore
Perth / Freemantle
Antioch
Leningrad
Svalbard
Phuket
Phnom Penh
Riyadh
Addis Abbabba
Capetown
Antananarivo
Kinshasaa
Vancouver
Nagasaki
etc...

Except for the fact the inspiration for the ship's name is not directly related to the city.

USS Obama

He said Constitution class not Garbage scow class.

There's a difference??

Korax agrees!

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What, Einstein, and no Borlaug?

I forgot.

Chad thinks the original U.S.S. Enterprise design was lousy.

Yes, because I have taste and I'm not blinded by nostalgia.

You're entitled to your opinion.

I'm not obligated to respect it though.

Then why ask for it?

Unless you weren't actually seeking out our opinions.