What names do you give your ships?

On a similar topic to "Weird ship names," I want to also know what kind of names do you use for your starships?

For example, I myself name my FED ships after famous ships from movies and tv shows:

EXAMPLES:

My Prometheus-Class: "Outlaw Star" (named after the titled ship from the anime Outlaw Star.)

My Odyssey-tactical: "Axiom" (named after the Axiom from Wall-E.)

My Wells Temporal Science-ship: "Axalon" (The Maximal ship "Axalon" from Beast Wars.)

My regular Odyssey: "Proteus" (The Proteus ship from 1998's Lost In Space film.)

My Galaxy-X/Venture-Class: "Galactica" (Battlestar Galactica.)

My current ship of choice is my Mobius Temporal Destroyer: "Retrocausality" which is an original name. I based the name off "Causality," which was the fan-name for a temporal time ship on a star trek fan-series, believing the name to mean the opposite, and give the mirror-universe Mobius-Class the matto: "Screw the Space-Time Continuum! Let's blow shit up!" You get what I mean?


What names do you give your ships?

Some of my characters use the same ship names for every one they captain:

Dragon: Star Hammer
Butcher: Tannhauser Gate (Originally Tsar Bomba)
Trillian: Queen Emeraldas
Angel Silhouette: Vashta Nerada or Vorax Umbra

Others always have their ship named along a theme:

Titus' ships are given Roman names (Imperator)
Bandit's ships are themed... Around the Smokey and the Bandit franchise or are named after cars. (eg: Firebird)
Gorgos' ships are named after prehistoric birds or flying reptiles (Toruk)
Guan'thwei's ships are named for predatory fish. (Piranha)

Parker Captains the Phantom. The name Phantom comes from the BSG series. In the BSG series the Phantom was the Cylon rebel Basestar that joins the Galactica (and eventually replaces it) as they get closer to earth.

There was a thread about this within the past month or so but I couldn't find it. Seemed smart to ask to merge them, but, like I said, I can't find it. Anyone know what thread I'm talking about?

Geography is always a solid go-to.

The Antwerp. The Hokkaido. The Cape Town. The Goteborg. The Zambezi.

Mythology is fun, but I have a great love of non-Western pantheons, Hindu in particular.

The Virabhadra. The Varuna. The Avalokitesvara. The Vajrayudha.

For Klingon, Romulan, and other alien ship names - I use the Randomizer as a starting point for embellishment and variation. I find it anti-immersive to use English for them.

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There was a thread about this within the past month or so but I couldn't find it. Seemed smart to ask to merge them, but, like I said, I can't find it. Anyone know what thread I'm talking about?

Yes. The original thread is here.

Aztroz named his ships after computer scientists, among them:

USS Turing (Sovereign): named after Alan Turing, a cryptologist and martyr for the gay cause
USS Rivest, USS Shamir, and USS Adleman (Odyssey 3 Pack): named after the authors of the RSA algorithm. If you've ever made an online purchase, you've used RSA. :)
USS Berners-Lee (Excelsior): named after Tim Berners-Lee, who invented a little thing called the World Wide Web. He was also a very outspoken proponent of secularism.

Keston named his ships after Spanish explorers: Coronado, De Soto, Balboa, Villavicencio. Fun fact: the Villavicencio was supposed to be the USS Vizcaíno, but I couldn't use the accented i in the ship name.

Rennan named all his ships the IKS jagh _____, where jagh is Klingon for enemy. His flagship (Negh'var) currently is the IKS jagh chotwI' (enemy killer). I also love his vor'cha, the IKS jagh nejwI' (enemy seeker).

Unlike many of my comrades, most of my ship names are chosen for whimsy, and several of them are inside jokes. For example, my Federation alien captains the U.S.S. Ramming Speed, named as such because it is a Nebula, and the only way to do damage with a Nebula is to use the ramming speed skill.

Now I can also be serious with my ship names. I decided to go a different way with my latest character, naming his ships after famous mathematicians. Still leveling, he is currently captaining the R.R.W. Schur.

I use different methods. Most often I use names of musicians of music songs I like, but I also name them often the U.S.S./R.R.W./I.K.S. Pizza (I/II/III and so on). Or I name them after my (deceased) mother (she liked Star Trek too).
And other times I use the random renamer, most often with the non-federation factions.
The shuttles I always call Chandra. A combination of my two best friends' names (Chantal and Sandra).

So far I've had:

USS Diablo - named after a mountain near where I grew up
USS McTavish - Named after Kittens McTavish (look it up)
USS Cachorro - Pup in spanish
USS Yellow Flag (current ship) - in reference to the hanky code

I'm close to getting a new ship, not sure what I should name her...

All science ships are Paradigm, all engineer ships are Apotheosis, and all tactical ships are Anathema.

For the Romulan ships, each rank is a roman numeral, for the klingons each rank is a number, and for the federation, each rank is a letter.

RRW Paradigm, RRW Paradigm II, RRW Paradigm III, RRW Paradigm IV and RRW Paradigm V

IKS Anathema, IKS Anathema 2, IKS Anathema 3, IKS Anathema 4, IKS Anathema 5

USS Apotheosis, USS Apotheosis B, USS Apotheosis C, USS Apotheosis D, USS Apotheosis E

Aikune - Lady GaGa (U.S.S. Mother Monster, U.S.S. Born This Way, U.S.S. Lady GaGa, etc. All NX-96464)

Dean of Greendale - Community (U.S.S. Jeff Winger, U.S.S. Britta Perry, U.S.S. Abed Nadir, etc.)

Elizabeth Lemon - 30 Rock (U.S.S. TGS, U.S.S. Jack Donaghe, U.S.S. Kenneth Parcel, Etc.) (U.S.S. Kathy Griffin because she's so D-List she doesn't have a toon with her own naming Convention...)

Ahn'Dy Ko'Hen - The Real Housewives (I.K.S. Lenethia Leakes, I.K.S. Tamra Barney, I.K.S. Teresa Gudice, etc.)

Watanuki - Clamp Manga (I.K.S. Cardcaptor, I.K.S. Tsubasa, I.K.S. Yuko, etc.)

Elphaba - Gregory McGuire Characters (I.K.S. Liir, I.K.S. Galinda, I.K.S. Fiyero, etc.)

Stephen J. Sondheim - Sondheim's Musicals (R.R.W. Road Show, R.R.W. Assassins, R.R.W. Company, etc.)

Izanagi - Japanese Gods (R.R.W Amaterasu, R.R.W. Susanawo, R.R.W. Emma-O, etc.)

D'Courbitin - Host Cities of the Olympic Games (R.R.W. Athen, R.R.W. Atlanta, R.R.W. London, etc)

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u.s.s. Minogue after my all time favourite pop singer Kylie Minogue.

The U.S.S. Mother Monster is powering up her weapons and getting ready for a Bad Romance

Pardon my outdated signature, but... :lol:

Cpt. Rasilek's Odyssey class - U.S.S. Deep Sky, of an astronomical term referring to celestial objects observable from earth (Nebulae, galaxies, etc.). I learned how to use star charts with a telescope when I was a teenager, which for me had exploded into a huge fascination for astronomy I've had since (and my resulting love for Star Trek). The name of my ship is reflective of those passions, dreams, and imagination trigged at an early age. Some would call it childhood wonder. :)

Adm. K'tzik's Reagent class - U.S.S. Eno, Named after Brian Eno, a favorite musical artist of mine who creates amazing experimental music and soundscapes (and also produces for a favorite band of mine!)

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Levin is my caitian engineer ( Levin is latin for lion ) captains the Lexington which is an original federation ships name.

keith captains a prometheus class called the Terrahawk from a gerry anderson kids t.v show from the 80's. he also captains a corvette called the K.E.A.F ( keith's. earth. atmospheric. fighter lol

xD Kieth of the Terrahawk. I can't help thinking of Kieth Lemon always telling Fearne that she looks like Zelda from Terrahawks.

Also "Leo" is latin for Lion. No joke. The only levin, of which I am aware, is middle English for "lightning".

My ship names were named after terms relating to time.

Prometheus Class: U.S.S. Clairvoyance (The ability to see the through time)

Odyssey Tactical: U.S.S. Paradox (An loop in time with no beginning or end)

Mobius Temporal Destroyer: U.S.S. Paradox-D (Same as above plus D, everyone loves the D)

Armitage Fleet Heavy Carrier: U.S.S. Chronos-A (A God of Time
Delta Flyer Shuttle: U.S.S. Predestination (A type of temporal paradox)

Many other but all follow the same naming habit.

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OMG I love this!!!!

All the ships on my main toon are named after The Golden Girls.

USS Dorothy Zbornak, USS Blanche Devereaux, USS Sophia Petrillo, USS Rose Nylund. The rest of the ship slots, like shuttlecraft, are named after ancillary characters like Miles Weber, Stanley Zbornak, etc.

:-)

"Condoms, Rose...condoms, condoms, condoms!!!" ... "Calm down lady...you just get out of prison?!?!?"

I havn't decided on a system to name ships yet. On Ozzy I have USS Trident - my recluse, this seemed appropriate. My Orb weaver is USS Pointy - It was going to be Mr Pointy from Buffy lol. And My Vesta is USS Event Horizon That's my dark and moody ship ;-)

I always name my fed toons ships, I don't bother too much with KDF ships, as long as it can fly, I go for "majestic" or "Regal" sounding names most of the time

Aki - Tholian Recluse (Default Name)
Kabuto - Jem'Hadar Bug
Excalibur - R-Defiant (Sounds Powerful)
Defender - Fleet Assault Cruiser Refit (Heals and tanks alot)
Patriot - Regent Class
Independance - Steamrunner (Toon can hold her own in a fight)
Avenger - R-Intrepid
Castiel - R-Intrepid
Gallifrey - Wells (I'm a Who nerd and its a time ship)