Also relevant, canon-wise, while not based on a real-life explorer, there is the USS Archer. It is part of the task for that was set to intercept the Scimitar in Star Trek: Nemesis. The producers have said in interviews that it was named after Jonathan Archer out of character, so there's no reason to think that it wouldn't have been named after him in-universe as well.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but according to the depiction the USS Drake is(was) a ship of the New Orleans class and not this Wanbondu (or whatever)... 😕
Star fleet is Earth's fleet not the Federations fleet. The Federation is an alliance of planets not a government. All the planet's in the federation would have thier own fleet.
"Why are there so many ships with Earth names?" Oh easy, look at the founding members. Primarily desert Vulcan, Forest Dominated Tellar Prime, Icy Andoria, and then there's the vast oceans of Earth. Every major power in Earth's history has had some kind of powerful navy and thus there's a strong naval tradition inherited by the UFP Starfleet via the United Earth Starfleet. Hell, between the US and UK alone there's probably enough unique ship names that could be recycled for starships to fill up the entire roughly 76000 unique registry numbers in canon. Plus a fair number of those ships are named after concepts and don't *have* to just be of Earth origin.
It would also seem that the Earth solar system was the location of Starfleet's primary shipyards. This was likely because Earth was seen as the most neutral of the founding members of the Federation. The same reason Earth is the Federation capital and the location of Starfleet Command, even though it was the youngest, least advanced of those worlds at the time.
The reason we have spaceships is because we had ships that people used for transportation and then we invented space transportation. On an alien World without Oceans they would have space trains (or whatever they name they used for their vehicles) In short suggesting the reason so many space vehicles have Earth names is because we had ships and aliens didn't is not a sophisticated argument.
"They named stuff after Earth's heritage because earth had a long established heritage of ships" kind of ignores that bit where space fairing races were wandering around between stars while human navies were still figuring out how to build boats big enough to safely get around their own planet... Personally I assume that most ships get earth based names simply because lots of humans like to work around the shipyards, and ships typically get laid down based on serial number rather than formally named hulls. Then humans name them before anyone else thinks to. "My mother-in-law suggested a name that might be well suited for that new ship we started last week. A Vulcan Poet who established an important cultural garden on Andoria..." "Oh, sorry, I think the human crew working on it has already been calling it the ... 'Cleveland'? They all seem rather attached to the name, and you know how the humans get..."
@@RealLuckless Not really. Of the Federation members, the Vulcans had been spacefaring the longest and had only returned to space in Earth's 19th century and during an era when there were far fewer powers and thus less of a need for starships capable of military operations. Remember, before the founding of the Federation 128 ships was a sizable force that required multiple nations to work together. Starfleet in later centuries mobilized thousands of ships at once. Combine that with the tradition of naming ships after previous ships and Earth's vast oceans and storied naval history, and you've got an utterly massive bank of ship names to pick from that unintentionally biases towards humanity on top of the names of scientists, scholars, ideals, etc. While I was joking a little earlier, there really are several thousand unique ship names at least among just a couple of major naval powers of the past century.
UFP is so Earth centered because the audience is much less likely to identify with other species so we only see the extraordinary human aspects. Can you image 20 hours of the Horta?
I suspect many Starfleet ships are named by human convention due to the fact Sol has at least four shipyards and thus humans are the majority species working on them. Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto/Charon, if I remember correctly. Quite WHY Sol has so many is beyond me, as humans had a late start on interstellar infrastructure.
If you're covering ships with alien names you will surely cover the Kumari, named after the first ice cutter to circumnavigate Andoria. The fact I know that off the top of my head just shows how cool that ship and Shran were.
1:18 Id have loved to have seen Starfleet try to fit Al-Batani’s full name on the ship! You went for a non-canon USS Tombaugh, when there’s a canon mention of a ship of this name in Voyager? On ships with alien names, I can think of Gorkon (TNG), Sitak, ShirKahr, Sarek, T’Kumbra (DS9) and a couple of runabouts names for Bajoran rivers in books.
Klingon Tac-Officer:Starfleet vessel approaching captain! Klingon Captain: Those puny humans and there space yachts... I laugh at them... A white borg cube appearing. Klingon Captain: Da'fuq? Starfleet hailing them: Sorry, was the only ship big enough for it's name...
“Why are there so many ships with Earth names?” Probably because the writers are lazy and it’s easier to reference Earth history than it is to make up several different histories for alien cultures and then use those names. Alternatively, the writers do it for the few viewers who will recognize a name and what it’s in reference to when it’s mentioned in a line.
It's the same reason everyone seems to prefer old Earth books and music over any modern 23rd or 24th-century literature and music from different worlds. It's easier when even the Klingons can quote Shakespeare.
A USS Percy Fawcett is almost conspicuously absent, especially since historical allusions alone write at least a stand-alone episode featuring it, and a two parter if you put in a minimum effort. I’m imagining it as a Nova class. There was a USS Roosevelt which I’ll assume wasn’t named after Frank’s far cooler cousin because it didn’t survive The Battle of Wolf 359. Not sure what class I’d make a USS Theodore Roosevelt but I’m imagining a warship refitted for exploration or a dedicated exploration ship with major teeth, which is arguably an Intrepid class either way now that I think of it.
i always thought the Federation used mostly Earth names for ships for three reasons: First: The Federation was conceived by humans, founded in the year 2161 in San Francisco, Earth. Second: Of the 19 canon Federation shipyards, 9 of them are Earth or Sol system -centric, staffed primarily by humans, designing, constructing and repairing Federation ships intended for baseline humans as their primary occupants i.e. atmosphere, gravity, and environmental controls all using Earth as their model. And finally Third: nearly all of the writers for every Trek series are native to Earth, so we have to assume at least some small amount of bias in their reporting.
If you consider Vulcan and the other founders still has its own exploration/patrol starships, Starfleet ended up working as an earth organization with open doors to the rest of UFP.
Azetbur: The Federation is nothing but a Homo Sapiens-only club Starfleet: That's not true Also Starfleet: Names ships mostly after human figures, mythology, or geographic features.
In-universe it's probably the result of Starfleet's primary shipyards being located in and around Earth's solar system. And why is that? you may wonder? Because, for all the distrust and animosity between the founding members of the Federation, the one thing that the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellerites could agree upon was that they trusted Humans more then they did each other. All the founding members had their own space fleets, but a united defense/exploration force would have to be viewed as neutral, and as the race that brought them all together, it made sense that it would fall to humanity. This is also likely the reason why Earth is also the Federation capital. Earth was seen a neutral enough to be the place where they could all come together on common, equal ground, which wouldn't have been the case on any of the other homeworlds. But a side effect of all this was that since Humans were building these ships, humans were also naming them.
RogueTwo I like your explanation more. It fleshes out the world nicely. The Earth was, after all, not really any type of “power” at the founding of Star Fleet, or even when the original Coalition of Planets was founded. Humans (and Earth) are incidental in a way. I mean, you could swap the Humans out for the Ferengi, Talaxians, or even Cardassians. And the scenario could have played out similarly. Hell, if you’re willing to consider Trill’s Beta Canon, and you’re still reading this comment so of course you are, they likely would have created a sort of federation, in the absence the Humanity....
@@RogueTwo I've also always figured that because the other founding worlds had and to some degree or other still maintain their own defense and/or exploration fleets, they might well still be *using* a lot more of their traditional ship names, whereas Earth folded most of *what they had* into the UFP Starfleet. (I do also figure some of it's just the writing and there really are some more alien names out there than tend to be seen.)
@@OllamhDrab Very possible. And it would also explain in-universe why Starfleet ships seem to be disproportionately crewed by Humans. If Vulcans, Andorians and Tellerites are still maintaining their own defense/exploration services and fleets, while Earth's Starfleet became the defense/exploration service for the entire Federation, then there would be more Humans crewing Starfleet ships. Which also suggests that Klingons maybe shouldn't have worried so much about the Federation robbing them of their culture and traditions since the founding members of the Federation were still pretty much doing their own thing. There assumptions were likely based on most often encountering Humans in their confrontations with Starfleet. Hence the: "The Federation is a homo sapiens only club!" It's not, but Starfleet would definitely seem that way to an outsider.
Everybody here is talking about the ship names, and I'm sat here wondering about the logic of sending a poorly armed Oberth to the Klingon border, why not some Mirandas, Connies, or Excelsiors? Starfleet must have really had it in for that crew.
Ahh but didn't you know? The Oberth is a MIGHTY WAR CANOE! Lol kidding although in a psychological warfare aspect I could see why it would be assigned. Kind of like a "Meh ya you Klingons aren't all that scary see we'll just shove our mighty wa-- eh science ships on your border". Which when you think about it must have infuriated the klingons to no end. I mean it'd be pretty dishonorable to most(not all obviously) Klingon captains to attack and destroy a lowly, lightly armed science vessel.
@@AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter the oberth class is armed with a type XV enhanced phaser lance and forward and aft torpedo launchers armed with transphasic warheads. Its Hull is a mix of pure neutronium along with explodium to reduce op-ness.
Very happy to see that more and more non Anglo-Saxon ship names are getting added to the canon. Of course I understand it's an American produced show, but it sometimes takes me out of the fiction when a majority of the names of ships, places, things and people are named after typical American names.
You know there is a lot of basis for the accusations that the Federation is a Human centred organisation when the USS Titan, the most diverse crew in Starfleet history had just under 15% of the crew being Human.
"I'm outraged that an old cis gendered white Male is captain of a ship with a Chinese name! The captain should've been a trans gendered non homo sapien alien with Chinese blood in it!" [A screeching SJW, probably...]
Also another Grissom, Excelsior I think, that was mentioned in TNG and destroyed in the Dominion War. It was the ship that Vulcan murderer served on before DS9.
I’d imagine that the main species of each area of space would look after their own,the Vulcans probably have their own style of ship they use around their space same as the andorions and Klingons and so to would the names, a familiarity to the native people who if they call for help would be more comfortable seeing one of their own more recognizable ships versus from a different quadrant, like a Klingon helping a human in Kirks time if they were part of the federation at that point
I assume one reason for so many Earth names being present is because Earth was one of the founders of the Federation and the heads of Starfleet were mostly human and chose those names for ships. Now that I think about it, are there ships mentioned as having non-human crews? I wonder if the names we hear for those ships could be translations of the name in the native language. For example a Vulcan ship named "Challenger" could be a translation of the Vulcan name. It just has an English name for it's audiences sake.
I like that. There are plenty of starships names after astronomical bodies (nova, galaxy etc), or concepts (victory, defiant etc) that I’m sure would have easy native language translations. Though I can think of only two starships named for non-human people; Gorkon and Sarek. Possibly Sitak too, as there was an Admiral with that name.
I'm really not that keen on the Zheng He. It's okay, but seems... I don't know, just a bit nothing-y. That wanbundu class looks like someone took the New Orleans design.
My ship in Star Trek Online (T6 Sutherland-class Advanced Research Vessel) is named the U.S.S. Vera Rubin in honor of the astronomer who calculated galactic rotation rates.
Right there with you on the Earth name thing. I named my first fan ship class the Ontario Class, but out of 8 ships only Ontario, Superior, and Huron have Earth names. For the other 5 ships I searched online for large bodies of water on other Federation planets. I initially wanted to name asmall WWII torpedo bomber like fan ship of mine after the U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawk (which has a great history if you ever get the chance to look it over) but in another online search for alien birds of Star Trek I found the Sorrohawk and used that name. Why the makers of canon ships can't do the same is both a mystery and a disappointment to be sure.
There has to be a (future) Shepard-class ship that hunts down a maniac, then joins Section 31, comes back to Starfleet, gathers all fleets in the Alpha quadrant and destroys a Borg invasion.
I named my _Galaxy_-class for Juan Ponce de León and based the NCC number on the founding date of the city the Saint Augustine, Florida. Because I'm Floridian. I actually imagined there would be more _Galaxy_-class named for explorers and scientists.
About personalities... I've seen Constitution and Excelsior ships named «Potemkin» or somehow close to this. Would you kindly mention 'em in any future video?
It should also be noted what Copernicus' most famous quote might be, when replying to accusations of heresy when providing evidence to a court on his findings: "Your God is too small!"
I am gone keep posting it. But humans seem to pupulate planets very fast. Their population growth seems to be enourmes maybe this is why most things are human in name
Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin was the first human in space. But like in most organizations, writers for the Roddenberry-verse, the facts have yet to override claimed "histories", AKA dogmatic propaganda.
No you’re actually wrong because in a 1960’s episode of Doctor Who it is claimed to Gagguarian to the first Earth man in space not the person that you claim that it is
im guessing its one of those bits of laziness that no one bothers to fix, like how Vulcan blood is made of copper but should be blue instead of green if anything it should be UFS, United Federation Ship
rick, my name is jeff anderson &I was wondering if you could do a video about the hutts & their slaves & the slaves costumes & how do you get married & divorce in the star trek & star wars universe jeff anderson
Also relevant, canon-wise, while not based on a real-life explorer, there is the USS Archer. It is part of the task for that was set to intercept the Scimitar in Star Trek: Nemesis. The producers have said in interviews that it was named after Jonathan Archer out of character, so there's no reason to think that it wouldn't have been named after him in-universe as well.
"NCC-Thirty, Sixty-nine...nice"
Don't get it
@@paulrasmussen8953 Listen to what he says when reciting that registry number in the actual video. That's what i was making a reference to.
@@thesageofgames1871 still don't get it
The Francis Drake straight up looks like a New Orleans class minus the highlighters.
what about the oberth class destroyed at the genesis planet USS Grissom for Astronaut Gus Grissom ?
I’ll tell you now he’s not very good at doing these videos as he thinks he is
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but according to the depiction the USS Drake is(was) a ship of the New Orleans class and not this Wanbondu (or whatever)... 😕
Star fleet is Earth's fleet not the Federations fleet. The Federation is an alliance of planets not a government. All the planet's in the federation would have thier own fleet.
5:00 that ship needs to cut down on the cheeseburgers.
"Why are there so many ships with Earth names?"
Oh easy, look at the founding members. Primarily desert Vulcan, Forest Dominated Tellar Prime, Icy Andoria, and then there's the vast oceans of Earth. Every major power in Earth's history has had some kind of powerful navy and thus there's a strong naval tradition inherited by the UFP Starfleet via the United Earth Starfleet.
Hell, between the US and UK alone there's probably enough unique ship names that could be recycled for starships to fill up the entire roughly 76000 unique registry numbers in canon.
Plus a fair number of those ships are named after concepts and don't *have* to just be of Earth origin.
Oh my... earth is basically the generic water planet of the Federation founding members...
It would also seem that the Earth solar system was the location of Starfleet's primary shipyards. This was likely because Earth was seen as the most neutral of the founding members of the Federation. The same reason Earth is the Federation capital and the location of Starfleet Command, even though it was the youngest, least advanced of those worlds at the time.
The reason we have spaceships is because we had ships that people used for transportation and then we invented space transportation. On an alien World without Oceans they would have space trains (or whatever they name they used for their vehicles) In short suggesting the reason so many space vehicles have Earth names is because we had ships and aliens didn't is not a sophisticated argument.
"They named stuff after Earth's heritage because earth had a long established heritage of ships" kind of ignores that bit where space fairing races were wandering around between stars while human navies were still figuring out how to build boats big enough to safely get around their own planet...
Personally I assume that most ships get earth based names simply because lots of humans like to work around the shipyards, and ships typically get laid down based on serial number rather than formally named hulls. Then humans name them before anyone else thinks to.
"My mother-in-law suggested a name that might be well suited for that new ship we started last week. A Vulcan Poet who established an important cultural garden on Andoria..." "Oh, sorry, I think the human crew working on it has already been calling it the ... 'Cleveland'? They all seem rather attached to the name, and you know how the humans get..."
@@RealLuckless
Not really. Of the Federation members, the Vulcans had been spacefaring the longest and had only returned to space in Earth's 19th century and during an era when there were far fewer powers and thus less of a need for starships capable of military operations. Remember, before the founding of the Federation 128 ships was a sizable force that required multiple nations to work together. Starfleet in later centuries mobilized thousands of ships at once.
Combine that with the tradition of naming ships after previous ships and Earth's vast oceans and storied naval history, and you've got an utterly massive bank of ship names to pick from that unintentionally biases towards humanity on top of the names of scientists, scholars, ideals, etc. While I was joking a little earlier, there really are several thousand unique ship names at least among just a couple of major naval powers of the past century.
UFP is so Earth centered because the audience is much less likely to identify with other species so we only see the extraordinary human aspects. Can you image 20 hours of the Horta?
I suspect many Starfleet ships are named by human convention due to the fact Sol has at least four shipyards and thus humans are the majority species working on them. Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Pluto/Charon, if I remember correctly. Quite WHY Sol has so many is beyond me, as humans had a late start on interstellar infrastructure.
Move all the dangerous industrial stuff to 'the new guys' backyard, and tell them it is great honour?
If you're covering ships with alien names you will surely cover the Kumari, named after the first ice cutter to circumnavigate Andoria. The fact I know that off the top of my head just shows how cool that ship and Shran were.
Pretty sure there was a USS Herschel too. The discoverer of Uranus and its biggest moon Miranda and infrared radiation.
Does USS Livingston charge 25 quid tax to visit its Ten Forward to "Reduce congestion?"
I love my Fleet Gagarin Miracle Worker in STO, dam that Beam Boat potential :D
1:18 Id have loved to have seen Starfleet try to fit Al-Batani’s full name on the ship!
You went for a non-canon USS Tombaugh, when there’s a canon mention of a ship of this name in Voyager?
On ships with alien names, I can think of Gorkon (TNG), Sitak, ShirKahr, Sarek, T’Kumbra (DS9) and a couple of runabouts names for Bajoran rivers in books.
Klingon Tac-Officer:Starfleet vessel approaching captain!
Klingon Captain: Those puny humans and there space yachts... I laugh at them...
A white borg cube appearing.
Klingon Captain: Da'fuq?
Starfleet hailing them: Sorry, was the only ship big enough for it's name...
“Why are there so many ships with Earth names?” Probably because the writers are lazy and it’s easier to reference Earth history than it is to make up several different histories for alien cultures and then use those names.
Alternatively, the writers do it for the few viewers who will recognize a name and what it’s in reference to when it’s mentioned in a line.
It's the same reason everyone seems to prefer old Earth books and music over any modern 23rd or 24th-century literature and music from different worlds. It's easier when even the Klingons can quote Shakespeare.
A USS Percy Fawcett is almost conspicuously absent, especially since historical allusions alone write at least a stand-alone episode featuring it, and a two parter if you put in a minimum effort. I’m imagining it as a Nova class.
There was a USS Roosevelt which I’ll assume wasn’t named after Frank’s far cooler cousin because it didn’t survive The Battle of Wolf 359. Not sure what class I’d make a USS Theodore Roosevelt but I’m imagining a warship refitted for exploration or a dedicated exploration ship with major teeth, which is arguably an Intrepid class either way now that I think of it.
i always thought the Federation used mostly Earth names for ships for three reasons:
First: The Federation was conceived by humans, founded in the year 2161 in San Francisco, Earth.
Second: Of the 19 canon Federation shipyards, 9 of them are Earth or Sol system -centric,
staffed primarily by humans, designing, constructing and repairing Federation ships intended for baseline humans
as their primary occupants i.e. atmosphere, gravity, and environmental controls all using Earth as their model.
And finally Third: nearly all of the writers for every Trek series are native to Earth, so we have to assume at least some
small amount of bias in their reporting.
If you consider Vulcan and the other founders still has its own exploration/patrol starships, Starfleet ended up working as an earth organization with open doors to the rest of UFP.
Azetbur: The Federation is nothing but a Homo Sapiens-only club
Starfleet: That's not true
Also Starfleet: Names ships mostly after human figures, mythology, or geographic features.
I feel like it’s more of a consequence of the writing, than Star Fleet. Future Trek could remedy the issue.
In-universe it's probably the result of Starfleet's primary shipyards being located in and around Earth's solar system. And why is that? you may wonder? Because, for all the distrust and animosity between the founding members of the Federation, the one thing that the Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellerites could agree upon was that they trusted Humans more then they did each other.
All the founding members had their own space fleets, but a united defense/exploration force would have to be viewed as neutral, and as the race that brought them all together, it made sense that it would fall to humanity. This is also likely the reason why Earth is also the Federation capital. Earth was seen a neutral enough to be the place where they could all come together on common, equal ground, which wouldn't have been the case on any of the other homeworlds.
But a side effect of all this was that since Humans were building these ships, humans were also naming them.
RogueTwo I like your explanation more. It fleshes out the world nicely. The Earth was, after all, not really any type of “power” at the founding of Star Fleet, or even when the original Coalition of Planets was founded. Humans (and Earth) are incidental in a way.
I mean, you could swap the Humans out for the Ferengi, Talaxians, or even Cardassians. And the scenario could have played out similarly. Hell, if you’re willing to consider Trill’s Beta Canon, and you’re still reading this comment so of course you are, they likely would have created a sort of federation, in the absence the Humanity....
@@RogueTwo I've also always figured that because the other founding worlds had and to some degree or other still maintain their own defense and/or exploration fleets, they might well still be *using* a lot more of their traditional ship names, whereas Earth folded most of *what they had* into the UFP Starfleet. (I do also figure some of it's just the writing and there really are some more alien names out there than tend to be seen.)
@@OllamhDrab Very possible. And it would also explain in-universe why Starfleet ships seem to be disproportionately crewed by Humans. If Vulcans, Andorians and Tellerites are still maintaining their own defense/exploration services and fleets, while Earth's Starfleet became the defense/exploration service for the entire Federation, then there would be more Humans crewing Starfleet ships. Which also suggests that Klingons maybe shouldn't have worried so much about the Federation robbing them of their culture and traditions since the founding members of the Federation were still pretty much doing their own thing. There assumptions were likely based on most often encountering Humans in their confrontations with Starfleet. Hence the: "The Federation is a homo sapiens only club!" It's not, but Starfleet would definitely seem that way to an outsider.
I would imagine that there was a exploration vessel named after Columbus, or at least the ships that were in his fleet when discovered "The New World"
Everybody here is talking about the ship names, and I'm sat here wondering about the logic of sending a poorly armed Oberth to the Klingon border, why not some Mirandas, Connies, or Excelsiors? Starfleet must have really had it in for that crew.
The Might One and their hull is made out of twice refined explodium.
Ahh but didn't you know? The Oberth is a MIGHTY WAR CANOE! Lol kidding although in a psychological warfare aspect I could see why it would be assigned. Kind of like a "Meh ya you Klingons aren't all that scary see we'll just shove our mighty wa-- eh science ships on your border". Which when you think about it must have infuriated the klingons to no end. I mean it'd be pretty dishonorable to most(not all obviously) Klingon captains to attack and destroy a lowly, lightly armed science vessel.
@@AGTheOSHAViolationsCounter the oberth class is armed with a type XV enhanced phaser lance and forward and aft torpedo launchers armed with transphasic warheads. Its Hull is a mix of pure neutronium along with explodium to reduce op-ness.
Very happy to see that more and more non Anglo-Saxon ship names are getting added to the canon. Of course I understand it's an American produced show, but it sometimes takes me out of the fiction when a majority of the names of ships, places, things and people are named after typical American names.
Looking at your name, I'm going to assume you're wondering why there aren't any Dutch names. ;)
Totally agree
You know there is a lot of basis for the accusations that the Federation is a Human centred organisation when the USS Titan, the most diverse crew in Starfleet history had just under 15% of the crew being Human.
USS Zhengn He, produced at the copypasta shipyards.
"I'm outraged that an old cis gendered white Male is captain of a ship with a Chinese name! The captain should've been a trans gendered non homo sapien alien with Chinese blood in it!"
[A screeching SJW, probably...]
@@Menaceblue3 You are very inventive in making up your enemy.
nah just made in China
Until the next one, I've been Rick.
What are you going to be in the next one, then?
He's going to be Morty next time.
He has also been Dr. Rick.......Hi Everybody!
He’s going to his usual uselessness
USS Grissom. NCC 638 Search for Spock
Also another Grissom, Excelsior I think, that was mentioned in TNG and destroyed in the Dominion War. It was the ship that Vulcan murderer served on before DS9.
I’d imagine that the main species of each area of space would look after their own,the Vulcans probably have their own style of ship they use around their space same as the andorions and Klingons and so to would the names, a familiarity to the native people who if they call for help would be more comfortable seeing one of their own more recognizable ships versus from a different quadrant, like a Klingon helping a human in Kirks time if they were part of the federation at that point
Hahaha 🤣 you don’t incorrectly spell things? That’s total bs because you do!!
Out of curiosity, any chance you'll make a Constellation legacy video?
maybe only starships mostly staffed by humans are named after earth people? and the series never explored alien-only starfleet starships?
During events of Star Trek Picard what ships are still in service
Galileo class shuttles
USS Columbus - Galaxy Class
I assume one reason for so many Earth names being present is because Earth was one of the founders of the Federation and the heads of Starfleet were mostly human and chose those names for ships.
Now that I think about it, are there ships mentioned as having non-human crews? I wonder if the names we hear for those ships could be translations of the name in the native language. For example a Vulcan ship named "Challenger" could be a translation of the Vulcan name. It just has an English name for it's audiences sake.
I like that. There are plenty of starships names after astronomical bodies (nova, galaxy etc), or concepts (victory, defiant etc) that I’m sure would have easy native language translations. Though I can think of only two starships named for non-human people; Gorkon and Sarek. Possibly Sitak too, as there was an Admiral with that name.
Good point
Astronomy IS a form of exploration
I wonder if in the future we are gonna get a USS Musk or a falcon class of ships... starships
Careful, if you stroke Musks ego enough, he might demand it to be done.
@@MarkiusFox They already put him into ME:A, so there's that.
Falcon class. Definitely.
Our Fleet was made for mainly War thanks to our fight with The Minbari but exploration took a part in it.
Excellent videos keep them coming.
I'm really not that keen on the Zheng He. It's okay, but seems... I don't know, just a bit nothing-y.
That wanbundu class looks like someone took the New Orleans design.
"The toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet ever put into service..."
Named after a guy who got his balls cut of as a boy...
NCC-419
My ship in Star Trek Online (T6 Sutherland-class Advanced Research Vessel) is named the U.S.S. Vera Rubin in honor of the astronomer who calculated galactic rotation rates.
I love how you fit a Japanese adjective into the video so fluently that feels it was always part of the English lexicon. Brilliant.
How else would you describe a New Orleans class without the markers stuck to it :D
Most UFP ships where desinde and build by humans/or human majority worlds/stations
There are so many ships with Earth names for the same reason the U.N. is mostly American. They contribute the most.
The names are Earth-centric because only Earthicans read the stories.
😀
NCC-69420
also known as the "USS Nice"
Not to be confused with the NCC-42069, the "USS Lmao"
But where's USS ShippyMcShipFace?
In dryock, with it's sistership the BoatyMcBoatFace...
Of course there aren't very many ships named after women.
You’re absolutely right there
Nice way to mix it up.
The USS Hampster Bois, just to see if the copy editor is awake.
I love Star Trek and the other Sci-Fi series but I have to say the Excelsior class is the ugliest Starship I've seen in any science fiction genre
Oh no, you're going to start the "ugliest ship" competition now. (In the words of Tommy Boy) What did you do?
I see your Excelsior and raise an Oberth...
@@cyberfux agreed lol
Right there with you on the Earth name thing. I named my first fan ship class the Ontario Class, but out of 8 ships only Ontario, Superior, and Huron have Earth names. For the other 5 ships I searched online for large bodies of water on other Federation planets. I initially wanted to name asmall WWII torpedo bomber like fan ship of mine after the U.S. Navy A-4 Skyhawk (which has a great history if you ever get the chance to look it over) but in another online search for alien birds of Star Trek I found the Sorrohawk and used that name. Why the makers of canon ships can't do the same is both a mystery and a disappointment to be sure.
There has to be a (future) Shepard-class ship that hunts down a maniac, then joins Section 31, comes back to Starfleet, gathers all fleets in the Alpha quadrant and destroys a Borg invasion.
Love it
a GREAT concept - thanks for this video! Looking forward to more
Great vid! I love seeing material on lesser known Trek factoids and trivia.
You bring up Livingston and don't show Picard's fish as a joke? smh
I named my _Galaxy_-class for Juan Ponce de León and based the NCC number on the founding date of the city the Saint Augustine, Florida. Because I'm Floridian. I actually imagined there would be more _Galaxy_-class named for explorers and scientists.
best very much not canon ship is the Sally Ride, Intrepid class from the geek and sundry Star Trek RPG live-stream "shield of tomorrow"
Ein Frage: is your vessel flight footage from STO?
About personalities... I've seen Constitution and Excelsior ships named «Potemkin» or somehow close to this. Would you kindly mention 'em in any future video?
Beta/non canon example: USS Sally Ride from the webseries Shield of Tomorrow
Was about to say just that!
I don’t see beta content as official canon
It should also be noted what Copernicus' most famous quote might be, when replying to accusations of heresy when providing evidence to a court on his findings:
"Your God is too small!"
Great video one of ypur best. I seem to remember a few noteable names from ToS Entrrprise shuttle bay. Ibalso look forward to seeing your Drake video
I think that it would be more interesting if they put letters behind names of ships to give them a bit more history. U.S.S . Tombaugh C
That Whale Prob caused a viral outbreak on a ship holy hell they didn't tell us that in the movie.
Yes, please do a Drake legacy video! Thank you!
I am gone keep posting it. But humans seem to pupulate planets very fast. Their population growth seems to be enourmes maybe this is why most things are human in name
Chibi Galaxy Class has to be cutest ship ever.
Vladimir Sergeyevich Ilyushin was the first human in space.
But like in most organizations, writers for the Roddenberry-verse, the facts have yet to override claimed "histories", AKA dogmatic propaganda.
Worldwide known history states that first man in space was Yuri Gagarin. If you have another information please, tell.
No you’re actually wrong because in a 1960’s episode of Doctor Who it is claimed to Gagguarian to the first Earth man in space not the person that you claim that it is
Wow, eye opening, Thanks
I look forward to watching your video on non-earth named ships. I think there are far too many earth names for a union of hundreds of member worlds.
8:50 You will continue to be Rick.
Humanity First?
Sto is epic period.
Nice
What does USS stand for in Star Trek? Because currently is means United States Ship. Which I doubt they’re prefixing all federation ships with
United Star Ship (or United Space Ship)
im guessing its one of those bits of laziness that no one bothers to fix, like how Vulcan blood is made of copper but should be blue instead of green
if anything it should be UFS, United Federation Ship
It is mentioned in an episode of TNG it stands for United Space Ship
Shame there's no Trek ship named after Tycho Brahe... he was quite a dude, as astronomers go.
Or, Stephen Hawking.
@@cmdrtianyilin8107 and Einstein for that matter.
@@cmdrtianyilin8107 Many USS Hawking's exist in Beta canon.
@@SymbioteMullet USS Einstein, NCC-85183, Nebula-class. Briefly see on a desktop display in "Conspiracy"
I named one of my ships in STO the USS Tycho Brahe. That character had ships all named after astronomers/alchemists.
When will you do Lower Decks?
The Cerritos is named for a town in California, which is the name of the Cerritos' class.
@ 3:16 "Doctor" Livingston, I presume?
Hey Rick Brilliant as always
rick,
my name is jeff anderson &I was wondering if you could do a video about the hutts & their slaves & the slaves costumes & how do you get married & divorce in the star trek & star wars universe
jeff anderson
U.S.S. Armstrong
a name that has been passed down through the family line :D
(Sorry, couldn't resist)