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What does USS stand for? I know that HMS means Pronoun Majesty's Ship (at least, I think it does), but USS? It might mean United States, but then why would Federation Starships be USS? Yes, I know, Terran culture is really just American culture with "evolved values", but.
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 09:48 pm (UTC)Creative, no? What I want to know is...what does NCC stand for? As in NCC-1701.
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:59 pm (UTC)As for NCC, it basically says it doesn't stand for anything and was arbitrarily picked (and added to) based on 20th-century aircraft registration (NC meaning it was registered in the U.S. and is a civil/non-military aircraft, and the extra C being added on because it looked cooler that way).
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:03 pm (UTC)2. Yeah, only two? I know people who have KLINGON INSIGNIAS tattooed on their arms. I know a man who spent his junior year (high school) in a starfleet uniform.
I know a lot of very strange people.
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-12 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 10:18 pm (UTC)USS is of uncertain province.
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 11:05 pm (UTC)E2 to the Res-Q
Date: 2004-09-11 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 10:48 pm (UTC)Yeah.
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:16 pm (UTC)Someone is quoted as saying, and I am blanking out on who, that NCC was chosen because NC is a standard prefix in registry numbers for aircraft, and they put in the extra C to make it look like a combination of NC and СССР, as in the future all earth people are friends and such. Pay no attention to the fact that the Сs in СССР are actally Ses. Maybe it should be NCС instead.
(That probably won't make a lot of sense unless your computer for some reason displays Cyrillic characters in a different font from Latin ones.)
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 09:48 pm (UTC)Creative, no? What I want to know is...what does NCC stand for? As in NCC-1701.
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Date: 2004-09-11 09:59 pm (UTC)As for NCC, it basically says it doesn't stand for anything and was arbitrarily picked (and added to) based on 20th-century aircraft registration (NC meaning it was registered in the U.S. and is a civil/non-military aircraft, and the extra C being added on because it looked cooler that way).
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:03 pm (UTC)2. Yeah, only two? I know people who have KLINGON INSIGNIAS tattooed on their arms. I know a man who spent his junior year (high school) in a starfleet uniform.
I know a lot of very strange people.
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-12 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 10:18 pm (UTC)USS is of uncertain province.
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Date: 2004-09-11 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 11:05 pm (UTC)E2 to the Res-Q
Date: 2004-09-11 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-11 10:48 pm (UTC)Yeah.
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Date: 2004-09-12 05:16 pm (UTC)Someone is quoted as saying, and I am blanking out on who, that NCC was chosen because NC is a standard prefix in registry numbers for aircraft, and they put in the extra C to make it look like a combination of NC and СССР, as in the future all earth people are friends and such. Pay no attention to the fact that the Сs in СССР are actally Ses. Maybe it should be NCС instead.
(That probably won't make a lot of sense unless your computer for some reason displays Cyrillic characters in a different font from Latin ones.)
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Date: 2004-09-13 01:28 pm (UTC)