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>This is an interesting line of thought. In=20
looking around at Trek sites I've often wondered why someone chose the
ship's name they did.
>It might be interesting to hear from people
what made them chose the name they did for their ships.
Well, I tend to pick "classical" names. The names for the ships
in the earl= iest stories
were simply pulled out of the Franz Joseph's "Technical Manual,"
but the fi= rst extended
set of stories centered around the starship Alexandria. I took the name
fr= om the Egyptian
city which was at one time the location of a great library. Because the
Al= exandria was
meant to be a ship of exploration and science, I thought it was an
appropri= ate name.
When it came to naming the ship in the Next-Gen era stories, I stayed with
= the letter
A and picked another classical name, Athena, after the Greek goddess. When=
picking
names, I try to avoid names that might have appeared before, either in
cano= n or in the
fan fiction sites I was aware of. After I started, another fan fiction
wri= ter came up with
the Athena as a ship name. I haven't encountered an Alexandria, though.
Steve
The Universe Unbounded.
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>This is an interesting line of thought. In
looking around at Trek
sites I've often wonderedwhy someone chose the ship's name they
did.>It might be interesting to hear from
peoplewhat made them chose the name they did fortheir
ships.
Well, I tend to pick
"classical" names. The names
for the ships in the earliest stories
were simply pulled out of the Franz Joseph's
"Technical Manual," but the first extended
set of stories centered around the starship
Alexandria. I took the name from the Egyptian
city which was at one time the
location of a great
library. Because the Alexandria was
meant to be a ship of exploration
and science, I
thought it was an appropriate name.
When it came to naming the ship in
the Next-Gen
era
stories, I stayed with the letter
A and picked another classical
name, Athena, after
the Greek goddess. When picking
names, I try to avoid names that might have
appeared before, either in canon or in the
fan fiction sites I was aware
of. After I
started, another fan fiction writer came up with
the Athena as a ship
name. I haven't
encountered an Alexandria, though.
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com;">http://ussathena.iwarp.comhttp://ussathena.iwarp.com">http://ussathena.iwarp.com;
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