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Do you remember any (okay, let's say two ;)) ships from TOS with names that have nothing to do with Earth? As Azetbur said in The Undiscovered Country, the Federation was (for the largest part) a Homo Sapiens-only club in those days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snake_Plissken
What bothers me more is that this wasn't changed in the later series, when the percentage of aliens noticeably increased.
Actually, I had something where , during Kirk's time, the UESPA officially became Starfleet. So the ship names, structure, etc, were all taken from the UESPA, even if crews were not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snake_Plissken
Makes more sense in Kirk's time, since Starfleet IS humano-centric, and most non-Terran fleets within the Federation are for planetary-defense. Earth, building up its fleet again after the Romulan and Klingon wars, fell into the role as 'peacekeeprs of the Federation' around Pike and Kirk's time.
Hell, at that time, Vulcan (and others) were HOSTILE to the needs of the Federation fleet, with Earth being its primary backer.
By TNG, the naval traditions should have varied a bit more than they did, at least certainly more integrated given the PC-ness of that universe. But, if they 'stuck to tradition', then ship names likely kept up the old British and American traditions.
I do break away from that somewhat where I can, but it's a pain. There's almost no canon references to alien ship names (other than Klingon, and some scant Romulan and Vulcan references), very little official sources, and almost no 'fandom' references to go by.