Star Trek

So i thought it would be interesting to get players' back story on why they named their starships they way they did. I've seen alot of starships floating around with names that I thought were funny and interesting. I named my first ship U.S.S. Val Halla NCC 93312. Currently I'm on my third ship, a variant of intrepid class, U.S.S. Val Halla-B NCC 93312-B. I named it the Val Halla because I am proud of my scandinavian heritage and wanted to pay homage to my ancestors.

USS Atlirith

According to Memory Beta, that is the Andorian word for an Eagle-like creature

I have a few ships.

U.S.S. Kumari (custom Armitage - here's a picture)

U.S.S. Armistice (Prometheus class)

U.S.S. Destiny (Destiny class)

I.K.S. Qam-Chee (custom Qin Raptor - here's a picture)

Mostly I just named them that way because they sounded cool.

U.S.S. Cochrane (After Zefram Cochrane), 

U.S.S. Ceres (After the Largest known Ateroid in our Solar System),

U.S.S. Cygni (After the Largest known Star, NML Cygni, Ten billion times larger than our own),

U.S.S. Tesla (Famous Serbian Inventor), and

U.S.S. Valerii (a Friend).

Mostly because these sound cool, and i thought it would most Logical.

I started out with a theme of "home"... begining with

U.S.S. Citizen NCC-90318 (the street I grew up on & house number)

U.S.S. Biloxi NCC-91838 (the nearest city to my home town & year of incorporation)

U.S.S. Hancock [shuttlecraft] NCC-1812 (my home county & year of founding)

U.S.S. Mississippi NCC-91817(my home state & year it was admitted to the union)

U.S.S. Republic NCC-91776(in reference to the US as a whole & year of Declaration of Independance)

My end-game ship broke the theme, and I ended up with the U.S.S. Gawain NCC-91980(considering my tag is @Gawain_VIII, it made sense to be my final ship, NCC is my birth year)

I also picked up the U.S.S. Endeavour NCC-91895 at the 3rd aniversary event--Endeavour being one of the original Constitution class ships (with an NCC of 1895), it probably had an Ambassador-class counterpart.

USS LOVELL (named for the Astronaut)

USS MONTGOMERY (named for Scotty)

USS NIXON (named for the president)(and the only starship that can go to China)

USS ENDEAVOUR (named for the NASA ships of the same name Apollo 15 & the Shuttle)

USS DALLAS (named for my city and the submarine)

USS CHURCHILL (named for Sir Winston Churchill)

well for me i named alot of my ships off my kids names, but my shuttles i named after personalities of mine. for example

U.S.S Carrissa Mea (Ship) for my daughter

U.S.S Daimond Fury (Shuttle) my son's personality

But some of my more recent ships ive named after next gen characters since i like TNG series.