Should they have names?

[Tok'Ra Hostess]

Well, they have different statues and lighting and thrones; or in Cronus' case, the same throne but with a rug over it. It's funny; one might almost think that they were all the same set.

Ya think?

Yes, the ship's interiors reflect the,... er,... original owners, I guess. Pop's ship, in Serpent's Lair/Grasp had a bunch of Horus guard statues, so I figure he was using a vessel captured from Ra. Also, after "defeating" Sokar he did nothing to change the interior of his flagship.

[Mr Prophet]

Ya think?

Yes, the ship's interiors reflect the,... er,... original owners, I guess. Pop's ship, in Serpent's Lair/Grasp had a bunch of Horus guard statues, so I figure he was using a vessel captured from Ra. Also, after "defeating" Sokar he did nothing to change the interior of his flagship.

Well, with the Red Guard armour he pretty much embraced Sokar's whole look, didn't he? I guess he was trying to get away from that whole Serpent helm look.

[Tok'Ra Hostess]

Well, with the Red Guard armour he pretty much embraced Sokar's whole look, didn't he?

Exactly my point; the Goa'uld are parasites; they have no real sense of self and will simply use whatever comes to hand without making much, if any, modifications.

[Crazedwraith]

"Ba'al, we have just destroyed the 'Anubis Mothership'."

Personally I don't like the idea of the Goa'uld naming their ships. It adds a little to much human quality to them. Plus I think that it would be a hassle. They command such large fleets, and they are constantly fueding, and taking over new ships.
Do you really think Apophis sat down and renamed every one of Heur-ur's or Sokar's vessels when he took over?

No they don't each system lord has at best a dozen Ha'taks, not hard to think up and remember names for twelve motherships and possibly a flagship. i doubt they assign death gliders and bombers names.

[Mr Prophet]

Exactly my point; the Goa'uld are parasites; they have no real sense of self and will simply use whatever comes to hand without making much, if any, modifications.

Except that they have a whopping sense of self, parasitic or otherwise. Their identity is in their very genetic code. Everything they ever do is about ego; slippery little paradoxes that they are.

[priornavalperson]

I'll have to check a translation of the biography of Ahmose to be sure, but I think that the Pharoahs did name their ships. And we all know from whom they received their customs.

[SGSlugger]

What if they used like a generic system to name their ships? Like whoever was in command of that ship was used in it's name? Example: Anubis's Mothership, Underlord Bob's Ha'tak.

"Underlord Bob will move his ha'tak into position, followed by Jeffery with his. From there we will move into posistion....."

[Sela]

I've thought about naming a ship but as there aren't many on our (Earth's) side in SG-1, it's hard to come up with a name. In SG-1 they are just called...well, ships. Transports, motherships - no names, just designations.

In the various Trek or Andromeda series there are a lot of ships to pick up the flow of names from: Enterprise, Reliant, Defiant - such noble names. The Starry Wisdom, The Andromeda Acendent - very poetic. I like that.

[Mr Prophet]

In the various Trek or Andromeda series there are a lot of ships to pick up the flow of names from: Enterprise, Reliant, Defiant - such noble names. The Starry Wisdom, The Andromeda Acendent - very poetic. I like that.

I've always liked the Culture's ship names: The Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality, the What Are the Civilian Applications?; the I Blame My Mother and its sister ship, the I Blame Your Mother.

[Sela]

I've always liked the Culture's ship names: The Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality, the What Are the Civilian Applications?; the I Blame My Mother and its sister ship, the I Blame Your Mother.

ROFLOL! "I Blame My Mother" - what a greatname for a ship! And the sister ship - hilarious! How about a new line with the flagship called "Your Mother Dresses You Funny"?

[Mr Prophet]

ROFLOL! "I Blame My Mother" - what a greatname for a ship! And the sister ship - hilarious! How about a new line with the flagship called "Your Mother Dresses You Funny"?

Well it depends on the ship, really. See, the thing about Culture ships is that they're controlled by pan-dimensional AIs called minds, which spend most of their time off in a ludicrously complex thought-world of their own devising. They get to name the ship they control, and - partly because most of their vast brain power is occupied in this thought-world - they have a rather skewed sense of humour.

A fuller list of culture ship names can be found here among other places. The GSV So Much for Subtlety is another favourite.

[priornavalperson]

Well, if one thinks of them primarily as carriers, then famous battles such as Saratoga, Lexington, Coral Sea, , etc. If one thinks of them as Battle Cruisers, then name them after Territories. The only two Battle Cruisers the US Navy ever had were named after what were then territories, such as the Alaska,


Of course, if one wants to be consistant with the name of the first space battle cruiser, the Prometheus, then they should be named after demi-gods. However, in that case we should try to avoid naming them after known Goa'uld.