Ship Dedication Quotes

[Dr. Armageddon]

How about this one for the battlewagon of your choice:

"Now I know that you're not as stupid as you smell....."

[JohnnyFive]

"Rising from the ashes of the fallen, reborn anew" - USS Phoenix

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here, it's wonderous. With treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it's not for the timid." - Q's warning to Picard

"This is not merely a starship, it's a city with warp engines."

[Polanski]

I have posted this before:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
- Edmund Burke, dedication for USS Avatar

But recently went to see "Tears of the Sun" (which I have found quite enjoyable) and was quite surprised to see the same quotation presented at the very end of the movie, just before the credits.

Kind Regards
Daniel

[Polanski]

This could be good for a Vulcan Science Vessel

"The glass is neither half-full, nor is it half-empty.
Nay, the glass itself is just twice as large as is necessary..."
- Unknown

Kind Regards
Daniel

[Phantom]

Science Survey Vessel USS Socrates-

"I drank what?"

[JonA]

USS Cortez

Heavy Explorer in my return to the Delta Quadrant campaign.

"To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not to Yield."

Alfred Lord Tennysson.

[Cybrludite]

Originally posted by arndog1975
To be quite honest, I don't know. A friend of mine had been on the Forrestal, and it's nickname was the FID, which was an acronym of the ship's motto. It's probably something Forrestal said. It could also refer to the fact that he was the first Secretary of Defense, as opposed to Secretary of War. Anybody know for sure?

Yup. James Forrestal was the first SecDef. He was committed for paranoid tendancies when he claimed he was being followed by Mossad agents. Despondent at being confined, he jumped to his death from the 12 floor window of his hospital room. Ironically, Mossad agents had been following him to try & judge the amount of contact he had with Arab governments. Just goes to show that just because you're crazy, doesn't always mean you're wrong...

[Cybrludite]

Another Columbia themed one. At the time, I hadn't seen the quote...

USS Columbia: The sky rained heros upon the astonished Earth. H.G. Wells

[Maranthain]

U.S.S. Ozymandias


"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

From the poem of the same name.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Choose the class and N.C.C.

[Joe Dizzy]

Enterprise NX-01 (from my recently finished campaign)
"Here we are. Born to be kings."

[Cybrludite]

Ok, here's an obscure one for y'all...

USS Cord -- Seeker class
"One is taught in accordance to one’s fitness to learn"

[Cybrludite]

"If we have to fight, I would like to do it all at once and then make friends" -- Ulysses S. Grant

[Cybrludite]

"Unearned knowledge is perilous. Only by the seeking and gaining of it makes its uses be understood, it's true worth measured." -Pitchwife, in White Gold Wielder by Stephen Donaldson

Perfect for a research ship

[P'l]

The "Vro'Chok" (Klingon dominated, joint starfleet/klingon "ship" hobbled together by survivors)

Moritori te Salutmus

"We who are about to die, salute you."
(Traditional greeting of the Roman gladiators, upon entering the arena)

[TheAntisocial]

Insanity is part of the times.
"You must learn to embrace the madness and let it fire you."
-Londo Mollari, B5

The plaque on a battle cruiser I'm halfway finished designing