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Are there starships in Star Trek that we know are named after men?
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Are there starships in Star Trek that we know are named after women?
inspires me to ask about starships that we know are named after men. If the name of a starship is an Earth ...
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Are there starships in Star Trek that we know are named after women?
A brief browse through this list yields some likely candidates:
USS Curie -- most likely named after Marie Curie, but could be Pierre Curie or both, or involve Irène Joliot-Curie or Frédéric Joliot-...
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What's the origin of the name of the Tantive IV?
Tantive IV is the ship used by Leia in Rogue One and A New Hope.
Tantive has the feel of the end of an English adjective. (I think of substantive.) This wouldn't be dissimilar to the names of ...
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Origin of the name "Slave I"
Are there any known in- or out-of-universe reasons for the name of Jango and Boba Fetts' ship, Slave I?
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Were the NX-class starships named after the Shuttles?
From Enterprise we know that the first two warp-5-capable NX-class starships were the NX-01 Enterprise and NX-02 Columbia.
Lo and behold, the U.S. Space Shuttle Orbiters were built in the following ...
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