Ship Dedication Quotes

[Tarbas]

U.S.S. Avalon - Norway Class

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
Shakespeare

[Perrryyy]

USS Kansas "Ad astra per aspera" (To the stars through difficulties, Kansas state motto)

[Dan Gurden]

Here's a good one, that I found on a Will Smith album.

"It takes a village to raise a child." From an old African Proverb. That gave just the right kind of sense of community and learning that I always feel Bridge Quotes should imply...

Its just me, but when I read dedication quotes, I always try to either match it up to the class or ship name, but even more importantly, try to work out if the quote invokes the spirit. After all, it should raise morale and imply a sense of standards used by the ship...

like I said. IMHO.

That said. Most of the dedication quotes on this thread are good ones... Nice one people.

[Dan Stack]

I've been tinkering with the idea of adding a U.S.S. Pioneer to my game, an Intrepid-class vessel. If I do, this'll be her quote...

"Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains; Men with new eras in their purpose and empires in their brains."
- Robert Service

[Michael Brinkhues]

For an explorer:

"Somethings out there! Go and find it" (Kipling)

"Still miles to go before I sleep" (Frost)


Michael

[Roxby]

Originally posted by Doug Burke
Intrepid-class USS Blackthorne:
"Ecce potestas casei!"

Behold, the power of CHEESE???

[Ramage]

Finally I come through with something serious on this thread...

I give you my campaign's notion of the dedication for the USS Achilles:

These fought on in the likeness of blazing fire (Iliad, Book 18)

[Doug Burke]

Originally posted by Roxby
Behold, the power of CHEESE???

I though it an infinitely appropriate quote for a Star Trek ship. And subtle, too.

[RaconteurX]

"Man is not subject to the gods, nor to death entirely, save by failure of his will." -- Joseph Grenville, philosopher

[Evan van Eyk]

USS Independence - Independence Class Explorer ( see my homepage )

'...It is not for glory, riches, or honours we fight, but for liberty alone, which no good man looses but with his life' - Declaration of Arbroath 1320, Scotland

[NobAkimoto]

USS StarQuest(Eximius class)
"Our prime obligation is to make the unknown, known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are." --Gene Roddenberry

USS Eximius(Eximius class)
"The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles, supreme excellence is to subdue your enemies without having to fight them." --Sun Tzu

USS Paragon(Sovereign class)
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

[Darth Charming]

"Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson

The dedication plaque for a PC Intrepid-class ship in a Spacedock battles game I ran for a time.

-Darth Charming

[Perrryyy]

USS Sagan - "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence".

[Cybrludite]

Well, I aplologize if these have been done already...

USS Beemer: Let's Roll!

USS G.W. Bush: Freedom will be defended.

USS Forrest: Get there fustest with the mostest.

USS Shaft (Saber class): Hush yo mouth! (Sorry, couldn't resist...)

USS Washington: If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

USS Ashcroft: We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national origin.

USS November 11th: No just cause can be advanced by terrorism. --Koffi Anan

[Sarge]

USS Mercury:

"Anywhere the wind blows
Doesn't really matter
To me"

Why, yes, I was listening to the radio when I thought of this one. How could you tell?