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Some random dedications from my stockpile to use for shuttlecraft (If I ever manage to run a Trek game again. :():
USS Garcia: "What a long strange trip it's been."
USS Tolkien: "The road goes ever on and on ..."
USS Eclipse: "See you on the dark side of the moon." I actually used this one for the players' ship the last time I ran a game.
USS Python: "Always look on the bright side of death." Sorry, had to have a goofy one. ;)
USS Quayle: "You say potato ..." OK, two goofy ones. :D
USS Kurtz: "Like a diamond bullet ..."
USS Geoffrion: "Boom ... boom."
USS Johnson: "Her front teeth are lined with gold."
Cheers,
Steve
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USS General MacAuliffe (make it a troop carrier, or something)
"Nuts"
- General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)
I dunno why (sure, and you're Pope John Paul II ;)), but this has always stuck in my mind, ever since I heard it mentioned years ago!
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Ok, I thought I'd make a contribution to this thread, as I've found many of the quotes to be pretty good (good enough to 'borrow' them for my own game use! ;)) After digging through some old files, here are some ships, and their dedications, that have been used in games that I've played in, or ran...
- USS Leviathan (Galaxy-class): "Justice consists in taking from no man what is his." - Thomas Hobbes
- USS Virtuous (Olympic-class): "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop
- USS Titan (Titan-class): "Who overcomes by force, hath but overcome half his foe." - John Milton
- USS Voyager-B (Intrepid-class, Type II (Voyager) variant): "Oh Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done, the ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won." - Walt Whitman
- USS Trailblazer (Intrepid-class): "I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts." - Herman Melville
- USS Guardian (Sovereign-class): "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression." - Thomas Paine
- USS Sentinel (Sovereign-class): "What stands if freedom fall?" -Rudyard Kipling
- USS Courageous (Galaxy-class): "Often the test of courage is not to die but to live." - Vittorio Alfieri
- USS Newton (Nova-class): "If I have seen further...it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Bernard of Chartres
- USS Paradox (Polarity-class timeship): "Time present and time past, are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past?" - T.S. Eliot
Those are the ones that I could find, though I know I've got more floating around somewhere. Whenever I come across a good quote, I make a note of it, and, if appropriate, match it with a starship. It really seems to add a nice bit of flavor to a game, I think.
Greg
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From Star Trek: The Line in the Stars
Seven Seasons, takes place 8 years after the end of Dominion War.
USS Courageous
Avatar Class Fast Frigate, Starfleet Intelligence Naval Division
Captain Alexandra Polanski
"For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
USS Vengeance
Akira Class, 7th Fleet
Captain James Patrick Mason
"Seek victory before you seek battle..." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
USS Typhoon
Akira Class, 7th Fleet
"Honor and courage are a warrior's right and left hands ..." - Unknown
USS Arcadia
Science Vessel
"The man who learns only what others know, is as ignorant as if he learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." - Unknown
USS Einstein
Science Vessel
"There are those to whom knowledge is a shield, and those to whom it is a weapon. Neither view is balanced, but one is less unwise." - Unknown
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USS Titanic
All the water in the world cannot drown you — unless it gets inside. — Mary Manin Boggs
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(Miranda Class) USS Rodger Young - NCC 14837 - "Shines the name...
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USS Farpoint (Soverign class):
"We surrender."
(The devil made me do it):D
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Explorer vessel (can't think of a ship name at the moment, but had to use the quote)
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. — Kilgore Trout
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Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. — Albert Einstein
Another explorer type maybe?
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My movie era campaign is based on the USS Excalibur.
The original Royal Navy vessel had, in Latin, "Steadfast for God, King, and Country" or pretty darn close.
Sadly, my Latin is a tad rusty. Anyone have a clue here? In fact, any suggestions are welcome. (For one entre minute, the motto was "Pass the dramamine." Fortunately, we got sane again.) :D
Thanks in advance!
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USS Andromenda Transcendent :D The universe is wider than our views of it. — Henry David Thoreau
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USS Carondelet (Defiant Class)- "Walk softly and carry a big stick"
USS Lexington- For honor's the sum of the mind....
USS Farrington (Sovereign)- ...one sword at least thy rights shall guard
USS Persues (Oberth Mod) ...one faithful heart shall praise thee...
USS Atlantis (Galaxy)- ...where the ocean meets the stars, I'll be sailing...
USS Squall (Modified Nova)- ...for in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire... -Oliver Wendell Holmes
USS Manassas (Defiant Class)-...we ride to the sound of the guns... George Armstrong Custer
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Here's some weird ones, with a theme, no less...
USS Red Rock: I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
USS London Bridge: And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
USS Hyacinth: Fear death by drowning
USS Stetson: Will it bloom this year?
USS Golden Cupidon: Speak.
USS Shakespeherian: Those are pearls that were his eyes.
USS Albert: HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME
USS Fire Sermon: Sweet Thames, run softly, for I speak not loud or long.
USS Porter: Et, O ces voix d'enfants, chantant dans la coupole!
USS Tiresias: I who have sat by Thebes below the wall, and walked among the lowest of the dead.
USS Phlebas: O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
USS Thunder: Then spoke the thunder.
USS T.S. Elliot: Who is the third who walks always beside you?
(Names & quotes from T.S. Elliot's "The Waste Land'
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USS DaVinci (timeship): In rivers, the water you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of what is to come; so with time present.
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USS Schweitzer
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. — Albert Schweitzer
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To misquote Guinan:
"That's the great thing about imagination - it can take you to more places than a starship."
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A few I dug up:
USS Honour : The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund BurkeUSS
USS Interceptor : Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. - Ashleigh Brilliant (worryingly my character's on this ship!)
A few quotes spare here for usage
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson (Night Court)
The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov
Kites rise highest against the wind-not with it. - Winston Churchill
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a ***** in the valley. - Joel Rosenberg
Got a file full of historic quotes - most handy
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USS Indomitable: For what though the field be lost? All is not lost - thy indomitable will, and courage never to submit or yield...
From Milton, Paradise Lost.
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USS Columbus - And the sea will grant each man new hope...and sleep brings dreams of home
USS Red October - One ping only please.
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Galaxy Class - USS Atlantis (Star Trek:Genesis)
"...and reach for the heavens and hope for the future;
and all that we can be, not what we are." John Denver
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USS Kistiakowsky - The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine. — Vera Kistiakowsky
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USS Magellan
Sursum Corda (Lift up your hearts)
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USS Excalibur (refit Constitution class)
L'audace, Toujours, L'audace
-Audacity, always audacity
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USS Success - To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov
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can someone make this a sticky. It makes for a great reference!
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USS Nautilus
"Mobile in Mobilis" (actually, the dedication plaque onboard Nautilus in "20 thousand leagues under the sea")
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USS George S. Patton: May God have mercy on my enemies. They're going to need it!
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The USS Enola Gaye (Defiant Class)
"8.15"
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U.S.S. Lewis and Clark
"...to attain that farthest shore."
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Bump...
Isn't it the kind of thread we could add to the sticky list
(at this rate, we'll have a full page of sticky threads within a couple of months):p
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I have two more to add to it due to this past weekend's tragedy...
USS Columbia "Thunder on!" (From the song "Fly, Columbia" by Julia Ekelar)
USS Phoenix "My wings are made of tungsten and my flesh is glass and steel. I am the joy of Terra for the power that I wield" (From the song "The Phoenix", again by Julia. It's about a dead astronaut re-incarnated as a spaceship...)
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Two relating to the current war.
"We fight wars not to have peace, but to have a peace worth having." - Bill Whittle
This one would be good for a post-Dominion War design that's better armed than previous Feddie designs. Sums up the whole "Why We Fight" discussion rather nicely.
The next one is the one that has been retroactively been selected for the Starfleet Marines game I play in online, Special Operations Task Force: Furies. Our ship is the USS Nemesis. (Named well before the movie came out, I might add...)
"The enemy should be in no doubt that we are his Nemesis and that we are bringing about his rightful destruction." Lt. Colonel Tim Collins, Royal Irish Guards
Given how the Furies operate, and what their mission statement is, it fits.
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USS Spike Segal "Bang"
USS Henderson "Mort Ab Alto"
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U.S.S. Expedition (Expedition-Class)
"He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks, but does not learn is in danger."
---Confucius
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U.S.S. Herod Agrripa
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
--Nicollo Machiavelli, The Prince.
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Moderator hat on...
Given the current ban on political discussion, it would be best, in my opinion, to tread carefully in linking the war in Iraq with this thread. It would be just as easy to use quotes from French or German ministers as dedication quotes.
Unless, of course, Don interprets the ban differently.
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Uh...nothing was intended as commentary on the modern era in the quote. Sorry if anyone read more into that
