Star Trek

Runabouts are typically named for rivers. If you had a runabout to name, which river would you name it for?  Any particular reason for choosing that river?

The Missouri River Because A.) I live near it B.) Sounds like a cool name for a runabout..... Or I would name "De Nile"Just to have some fun

Colorado, because I spent many summers on it.

I never spent much time around rivers, growing up in Florida. 

I like the name Mississippi.  It is a great river in American lore.  I'm shocked it was never used in DS9, Sisko growing up in New Orleans.

Being in the NW now, I've grown fond of the Columbia.

USS Chitose

Murrumbidgee.

I used to live near that river and oh hell I just like the sound of it.

(Pronounced: MAH-rum-BID-jee)

What always made me curious is why would they all be named after rivers on earth?

They didn't say exactly why but it was probably a choice of Sisko's.

I think I read somewhere that ALL runabous are named afterrivers.... recently they've started using other planets rivers... guess there's not going to be too many runabout river names from Vulcan

USS La Plata

Speaking of naming...very seldomely do we see ships named with something other than human terminology. I never hear any Tellerite names, or Andorian names like the USS Shran or USS Kumari, yet there's an Archer Class vessel, at least the books.

The Shannon-a river in Ireland-and my daughter's name!

Then there are names like Enterprise, Excelsior, Challenger, Valiant, Voyager, Defiant, and Venture, which work just as well in any language. There was a USS Gorkon, plus several with Vulcan names.

I was born near a river called "Wey", which would be a very silly name for a runabout. But there's a river near by called the Piddle, which would be even worse!

The Maumee is an interesting name.  My favorite river is the Danube, but that was used long ago.

Cochrane River is in Manitoba. The USS Cochrane.