Gamma Mission Prep

[Monroe]

I didn't know they made a lovecraft game. Looks bugalicious though according to the wiki article.

[Reliant121]

I like Relentless.

Perhaps the Battleship

Revenge?

Repulse?

[Mark]

I like Relentless.

Perhaps the Battleship

Revenge?

Repulse?

Well, Repulse has been used by Starfleet before (was destroyed in the DW I think) so they easily could commission another one.

Somehow though, I can't see the pacificitic Vulcans going along with the USS Revenge. Kinda doesn't fit in with Starfleets forgive and move on policy. (Disclaimer: The previous is just my take on SFs opinion and DOES NOT reflect my own )

[shran]

'War is diplomacy with different instruments.'

Lead by this quote, my mind strayed upon: "USS Negotiation"

[Mark]

There is always the overlooked

USS James T. Kirk

[Mikey]

Going back into history, how about naming it after one of the more feared warships of its time: the Warspite?

Shran - I liked the Shoggoth, but I think you're talking to a limited audience.

[Sionnach Glic]

Maybe the name of some mythical beast, or something along those lines?

USS Behemoth
USS Leviathon
USS Gorgon
USS Minotaur
USS Gryphon
USS Dragon
USS Hydra
USS Basilisk
USS Chimaera
USS Cerberus
USS Criosphinx
USS Crinaeae
USS Dzunukwa
USS Fenrir
USS Hieracosphinx
USS Kapre
USS Nightmarcher
USS Obia
USS Ouroboros
USS Ragnarok
USS Wyvern
USS Gleipnir
USS Beelzebub

[shran]

How about Nidhogger, a dragon raging in Mispelhei, I believe, at one of the roots of Yggdrasil?

USS Nidhogger - "War is diplomacy with different instruments."

Sounds about right, hey?

As to my character, I expanded my entry post a bit, by adding in a report from the ship's doctor about my 'cold case'.

Kasper Nijhoff

species: human

Born: 1990

Bio: born of rich parents from the Eastern coalition while being born with autism, variant asperger, he was one nasty child, not reacting to any stimuli for a long time. At age 17, he was put in a cryosattelite, with his drug plug rebuilt to interface with his brain synapses to keep him in artificial coma. Due to his syndrome, he is somewhat obsolete as a carrier of knowledge and raw mathematical power, because computers outrun him. Recently, he was discovered by the USS Daystrom in a cryosattelite, well into Tholian space, having been adrift in interstellar space for several years. it is unknow as of now how he wound up there.

Soon after the beta mission of the Daystrom he was awoken by a team of the nearby station, using the data gathered from observations made by dr. Sarin Tall during his stay on the daystrom. Still somewhat stoic to his surroundings, the team decided to use his drug plug as his window on the world.
First attempts with regular hormones were unsuccesful, due to the different wiring of his brain relative to non-autistic humans.
As soon as his neural pathways were studied thoroughly, the medical team was able to recalibrate the hormones used, but attempts at social contact remained difficult, though he could function in his holographic recreation of the enviroment he was likely to have lived in.
Further surgery on his drug plug to interface directly with the brain through both chemical and electrical pulses proved to be succesful. It turned out he was normal inside his head, but had difficulties processing what impulses from the outer world came in and giving an output signal.

- Report by dr. Sarin Taal, alias Darkomen -

When I was first contacted by the bridge crew of the USS Daystrom I had no idea this was even possible. At some point in a reguar mission I got a call from the ops department that they found a cryosattelite from the Sol system, almost 300 years old, which contained a boy which was still intact. You can imagine how ridiculous it sounded, but we were used to that, considering we already had a 1st officer which was a tholian as part of an exchange program and a feline-like centaur creature from another reality that quite much shaped most of my EMH assistant.

Initial studies of the body showed he was about 18 years old in terms of his physical age. Perhaps he was exactly 18 years old when he was put in cryostasis, as test results from his intestines showed some remains of a lot of fat and sugar and other ingredients common ingredients in birthday cakes of that time.
The second interesting discovery were his neural pathways and the level of development of his brains. Although not extinct, there are still people with psychic disorders which have their origins in the arrangement of their neurl pathways. This was an example: This boy was, or rather is, autistic. Considering autism can be divided into various sub-syndromes, I decided to dive a little deeper into his mind.
To find out what specific kind of autism this boy had, I had to raise his level of conciousness a little bit. A frozen body is interesting to study, but considering it has to be kept at the same temperature all the time and I didn't want to wear an enviromental suit constantly, I decided to place the body in one of the 2 holodecks, to simulate a slightly milder enviroment, while keeping him in a comateuse state. He would still be braindead, but I could see how his brain was wired and how it responded to pulses, in order to diagnose him further.
The conclusion was that he was/is indeed autistic, with a rather 'light' syndrome, called Asperger. First used in the 1980's by a researcher called Lorna Wing, she named it after an Austrian doctor which first 'discovered' patients in his clinic with similar synptoms.
Further details about asperger can be found in another report elaborating on Asperger.

- end of medical report -

[Monroe]

Maybe the name of some mythical beast, or something along those lines?

USS Behemoth
USS Leviathon
USS Gorgon
USS Minotaur
USS Gryphon
USS Dragon
USS Hydra
USS Basilisk
USS Chimaera
USS Cerberus
USS Criosphinx
USS Crinaeae
USS Dzunukwa
USS Fenrir
USS Hieracosphinx
USS Kapre
USS Nightmarcher
USS Obia
USS Ouroboros
USS Ragnarok
USS Wyvern
USS Gleipnir
USS Beelzebub

I like the Ragnarok or the Gorgon. I really don't think we should name Federation ships after the devil though *cough*Beelzebub.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

I like Cerberus

[Tsukiyumi]

I think we should come up with a class name before we name the ship.

[Mark]

Kraken-class

Kronos-class

Paladin-class

Camalot-class

or

Battlestar-class (pardon the copyright infringment)

[Tsukiyumi]

Kraken-class

Kronos-class

Paladin-class

Camalot-class

or

Battlestar-class (pardon the copyright infringment)

Paladin ain't bad at all. It fits the design's purpose.

My vote currently goes to either Twilight-class, or Paladin-class.

[Mark]

Kraken-class

Kronos-class

Paladin-class

Camalot-class

or

Battlestar-class (pardon the copyright infringment)

Paladin ain't bad at all. It fits the design's purpose.

My vote currently goes to either Twilight-class, or Paladin-class.

Well, since I brainstormed it, I'll second the Paladin class (but Twilight is good too)

[Mikey]

I was thinking along the same lines as Rochey, but in the twisted way my brain works the first mythological name I thought of was the USS Jormungandir. A suitably devastating namesake, but a bit unwieldy in conversation.