USS Argo as it was the famous ship of heros from greek mythology and has a constellation in the sky meaning i am out exploring those stars. thought it was a cool name at the time.

These are just a few that I've used on my 4 FED. Characters so far...

USS Schenectady
It's where I live, so I name all of my T-1 Light Cruisers this one.

USS Thunderbird
Because I loved that show as a kid and also because my Uncle was a pilot on the Air Force Thunderbird Team, stationed in Jersey many years ago

USS Galaxy Star
Just because I like the sound of it.

USS Star Dragon
Again,... Just because I like the sound of it.

USS Ticonderoga
It's a Fort here in NY State up near Canada.

USS Marco Polo
That's the name on my LRSV refit. It just seemed appropriate for a vessel that is supposed to be way out on the frontier of Federation space.

USS Jim Thorpe
This is what I named my Runabout, because it's fast and agile just like this guy was in every sport he competed in.

USS Dragonfly
I named my Research Science vessel this cause I used the bug-eye front end, and that's just what it looks like to me.



My one Klingon character is currently flying the "I.K.S. Mah'Duj Hegh" which roughly translates to:

" We Are, the Vessel of Death"


I'm about to use...

USS Serendipity
I'm working on a brand new FED Engineering Character with Cruiser's. I'm hoping that this one will give me better luck in getting rare drops when I get to my T-2 Connie.

As someone who owns the updated Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Franz Joseph Starfleet Technical Manual, a copy of Ships of the Star Fleet 2290-2291, damn near every Trek novel published in the 1990s, and two bookcases full of 20th-century European history books, I am basically never short of decent names. The following are the ones I've used for my current sci Saurian character.

USS Tashkent, Shi'Kar class Light Cruiser

I always like to use names from Russian and Soviet history, and this one is named after the current capital of Uzbekistan (and former rest stop on the Silk Road).

USS Mantell, Nova class Science Vessel

A little joke on my part, the Mantell is named after the 19th century English geologist and paleontoligist Gideon Mantell, whose main claim to fame was discovering the dinosaur Iguanadon (cuz, you see, dinosaurs and Saurians, dur hur hur).

USS Brian Aldiss, Stargazer class Heavy Cruiser

I didn't really like the designs of the research science vessels, so I went with a heavy cruiser. The name's another joke on my part; most ships in Trek named after SF authors are named after American authors from the golden age of John W. Campbell and the pulps, so I thought it'd be kinda funny to name a ship after someone from the British New Wave, particularly someone who wasn't a fan of TOS back when it was originally airing. Thankfully, Aldiss is a kickass author, so I can forgive him his human failings.

USS Pathfinder, Intrepid class Long Range Science Vessel

This is a shout-out to the USS Pathfinder that appeared in the Shatnerverse novel Preserver. (Yes, I read the Shatnerverse. I know it's basically Kirk****, but there are some cool ideas hidden away in those books.) It seemed like a great name for an Intrepid class ship.

USS Marignano, Oracle class Deep Space Science Vessel

My pride and joy, this ship is a reference to a ship in the awesome TNG novel Intellivore that had the sort of backstory you'd expect a DSSV to have; lots of time out on its own, wandering through the cosmos exploring stuff, but with enough engine and weapon power to look after itself.

USS Thuban, Polaris class Reconnaissance Science Vessel

I'd originally named this ship the Iapetus, after the moon of Saturn, before deciding to redo the hull into a Polaris class one. Since the Luna class went with a lunar naming theme, I figured that the Polaris class used a stellar naming theme. After a quick trawl through Wikipedia star name list, I chose "Thuban" after discovering it translates from Arabic into "snake" (reptiles hurr durr). A few days later, a little further research reminded me that Thuban is a star in the constellation Draco that, thanks to galactic evolution, actually was the North Star about half a million years ago. Totally unintentional, but I really like the name.

USS Pathfinder II, Intrepid class Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit

What can I say? I really like the name. It's also a memorial to the original Pathfinder from Preserver, which came to a tragic end after body-slamming the planet Halkan.

It's a long story.

USS Kronstadt, Sovereign/Imperial hybrid class Assault Cruiser

Part of my lamentable attempts to fit out a cruiser to handle combat in B'Tran, this one's named after the famous Russian naval base in the Baltic. It's basically a Sovereign hull with the Imperial neck pod sticking out where the main shuttlebay was. Depending on my mood, I say it's part of an prototype ECM system that was never widely implemented in the fleet, or it's the Federation's biggest heat sink (on the plus side, the ship's holodecks can run Crysis at 60 FPS).

USS Helios, greek sungod, it just seemed to rly fit to my nebula class.

Newst ship. The USS Lewis and Clark. Famous Explorers

Shank: Shanks was a guild on the Vallon Zek server in Everquest.

U.S.S. Vostok
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1

U.S.S Buran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_(spacecraft)

K.D.F. Zvezda
"Star" in Russian.

Most of my fed ship names come from people or places from Texas history because lets face it, Texas is pretty much awesome. My Vo'Quv is the I.K.S. Unrelenting in honor of my favorite ship from Escape Velocity Nova.

Kudos on the EVN reference. Sad that ev-nova.net died.

Thanks Pougan! One of my old roommates turned me on to EVN several years back and I must have played through every storyline at least 5 times. Think I might name my Kar'fi the Thunderhead or whatever the final ship of the auroran story was called!