Okay, from the Three Graces thread, and probably one of the early plotbunny posts, we know that the ship name Enterprise is banned.
Are there any others, or should we work up the series of events that banned it?
Candidate for Banning:
Millenium Falcon -- for similar reasons to the ban on Enterprise
Contrast With:
Most common ship names in Fenspace
--Anything ending in -prise among the Trekkies: NCC-1701-Q USS Reprise, NCC-1071 USS Second Prize
--Systems among the Warsies for those ships that get named: Dagobah, Yavin-4, Naboo, Corellia
--The same as the common Yacht names for those vessels already named before they lifted off: $name's Toy, John Bee etc.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Are there any others, or should we work up the series of events that banned it?
Candidate for Banning:
Millenium Falcon -- for similar reasons to the ban on Enterprise
Contrast With:
Most common ship names in Fenspace
--Anything ending in -prise among the Trekkies: NCC-1701-Q USS Reprise, NCC-1071 USS Second Prize
--Systems among the Warsies for those ships that get named: Dagobah, Yavin-4, Naboo, Corellia
--The same as the common Yacht names for those vessels already named before they lifted off: $name's Toy, John Bee etc.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll