Re: Class names for starships?


"Mark Blunden" <markATmarkdb.plus.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:464f859e$0$8726$ed2619ec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ErrolC wrote:

Most historical patterns have been used at one time or another in SF
(although I can't think of any 'Type xx' examples off-hand, maybe
because is sounds boring!

In Stargate SG-1 they seemed to follow fairly closely along standard Airforce conventions when developing their hybrid spacefighters, beginning with an X-301 prototype and then an F-302 production model. It did seem rather odd that they continued the naming scheme when developing the next vessel, the F-303, which turned out to be rather larger (large enough to have hangars containing F-302s, for one thing), but I may be misremembering the nomenclature, or it may have been a deliberate attempt to keep the scale of the project under wraps.

In any case, that series of vessel, and the follow-up class, became named ships, beginning with Prometheus and continuing with basically Greco-mythological names.

In the Schlock Mercenary webcomic, naming conventions crop up a few times (I think Terran fleet naming conventions get a sidebar discussion at some point, but I wouldn't know where in the archives to find it). The most memorable is the Petey-hivemind vessels, all of whose names have the initials PD.

--
Mark Blunden.

I always thought it was weird that they started naming their ships after
ancient gods, Prometheus, Daedalus, etc... Given the history of the show
it's a wonder that they didn't show up as bad guys.

The Russians named their ship Korolev, which makes a little more sense than
naming it after a potential enemy. "Yes Mr Churchill, this is our new ship,
the HMS Himmlers dream"

There should have been an Oppenheimer, or an Einstein. Some good ship names.

Now, if we really want to drive ourselves buggy with ship names and
classifications, we delve into the ship naming insanity of Andromeda.

.

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