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Legacy Vessel Naming
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A newly built ship, spaceship, or other large named vehicle is christened with the name of another vessel, one that has been previously destroyed or decommissioned after an illustrious service life. This is done to demonstrate a profound attachment the ship crew had to their old ship, or how illustrious the predecessor ship was, but simultaneously serves as a bad omen regarding the new ship's fate (or not). In Nautical Folklore, naming a ship after a vessel chiefly remembered for having bad luck is considered taboo. Probably few shipbuilders would consciously believe in such superstition; they would believe that few passengers would get on. Likewise few passengers would be consciously believing this. Still it would somehow "not be proper" to launch a second Titanic. See What Did You Expect When You Named It ____?. Sister trope of Dead Guy Junior. Compare Legacy Character. |
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In Rihannsu is revealed that the Romulans always keep in service ships named after the Journey Ships that brought their ancestors on the Twin Worlds. Aside for that, they have a penchant for ships named Avenger. Though a Romulan commander is shocked when Kirk says his vessel is named for the spirit of Enterprise, as opposed to a particular enterprise. To the Romulans that's hubris. |
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Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats: At one point, Benny is given an inflatable inner tube named Titanic II by the butler so he can float in the pool. Benny has the feeling he's heard that name before... naturally, Snerdly's planning to shoot it out from under him with a harpoon gun. | |
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The opening sequence from Star Trek: Enterprise features a montage of a number of historical ships named Enterprise, from the 1705 original through to the titular starship in 2151. | |
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Enforced in the Honor Harrington universe by the Royal Manticoran Navy's Roll of Honor. Ships that are destroyed in a valiant action have their names placed on the Roll. Traditionally, there is always a serving ship bearing every name on the list, and when one is removed from service its name is given to a new ship under construction, with all battle honors passing to it. On the flip side of the coin is the Solarian League ship Joseph Buckley. There have been nearly a dozen commissioned over the League's history. The cast debate whether the two that vanished in mysterious circumstances count towards the otherwise universal tendency of the ships to be destroyed in bizarre accidents. Similar to the Star Trek examples, Honor herself captained two ships named HMS Fearless in succession, with the second one, a heavy cruiser, being commissioned soon after the previous, a light cruiser, was written-off and decommissioned after being badly damaged in the first book. Similar to the Real Life examples below, sometimes ships get renamed so that a legacy name can be reused. The main example is that by tradition, the name HMS Nike is always given to the lead ship of the most advanced class of battlecruiser in service. When a revolutionary new class of battlecruiser is introduced in the interregnum between the First and Second Manticore-Haven War, it is named Nike since the previous Nike is scheduled to be decommissioned. However when hostilities flare up again the old Nike has to be bought back into service and is renamed Hancock Station, which was where that particular Nike fought in its first engagement. |
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Star Trek: Picard sees the Enterprise legacy explored in the third season. A couple predecessor Enterprises are at the Fleet Museum under the curation of Commodore Geordi LaForge; the NX-01 and the Enterprise-A. The Enterprise-E is mentioned to have been lost while under Captain Worf's command. The Enterprise-F has a cameo during her final act before decommissioning: to lead a demonstration during Frontier Day. When Frontier Day goes horribly awry when the Borg trigger their plan to hijack all the networked ships and inflict a new assimilation method on all the young adult Starfleet officers on board, the old heroes of TNG flee back to the Fleet Museum, where Geordi reveals his secret project: the (mostly) restored and fully functional Enterprise-D, pieced back together from other mothballed sister ships meant for a museum showcase but still ready to save the day one last time. And in the denouement, the Titan-A, another ship with a legacy name and registry number, gets re-christened the Enterprise-G, with Captain Seven of Nine in command. | |
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There were actually three starships named GameStar in Raumschiff GameStar: the first was trapped in a Stable Time Loop in season one, the second, destroyed during season three finale, and the third, blown up in the "Grand Finale" of the series. | |
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The Benny Hill Show: Benny as Fred Scuttle is being interviewed about a rocket ship he's built in his backyard. | |
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The Rogue later revealed to be Petey from Schlock Mercenary has so many ships he evidentially struggles to come up with enough names that fit his Theme Naming scheme, judging by some of the names resorted to. He also reuses names when a ship is destroyed. The result, five separate vessels have gotten the inspiring name of Predictably Damaged. As the comic explains a normal human would likely have picked a new name by now, but the Rogue enjoys the irony. | |
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Reinforce and Reinforce Junior in Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. Notably, the original starship wasn't "sunk" but disassembled and its parts were recycled in the construction of the new ship. | |
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In The Lost Fleet, it was common for new ships to be named after recently destroyed ships - especially since every ship in the Alliance fleet tended to get destroyed or damaged to the point of decommissioning within two to three years of being commissioned, and this keeps them from having to continually come up with new names. This has led to superstitions among the Navy that certain names are bad luck - usually either names that were shared by ships that the specific sailor had already been shot down in, or the perennially reused ship name Invincible, which gets destroyed so frequently that the entire fleet thinks that the name is Tempting Fate, and captains refuse to use parts that were salvaged from a destroyed Invincible for fear of the bad luck rubbing off. In one book, the officers decide to name the captured Kick superbattleship Invincible, figuring that such a massive ship is less likely to kick the bucket. When they return to Alliance space, HQ is furious at this breach of protocol, but they aren't going to antagonize fleet officers by countermanding it. The Invincible does end up being destroyed at the end of the first sequel series, though, but at least it's for a good cause. | |
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At the end of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock the Enterprise is destroyed. At the end of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home the crew is assigned to a new Enterprisenote In actuality another Constitution-class ship that happened to be in spacedock when the Enterprise crew were going through their adventures in II, III, and IV. Starfleet Command simply renamed the ship and gave Kirk command, complete with the same registry number with an "-A" appended to it, starting a Starfleet tradition for ships named Enterprise. | |
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In No Rest for the Wicked, Prince Dirk's current horse is named Artax XIII. | |
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Rescue from Gilligan's Island, the first Reunion Movie. After the crew rescues themselves, everyone tries to return to their old lives. The Skipper uses his insurance money to buy a new boat, naming it Minnow II, and restarts his charter business. They have a reunion cruise. Guess what happens. | |
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Mentioned in the first Arrivals from the Dark novel. Some USF ships are named after wet navy ships of the past. The example given, the cruiser Oberon, was named after the British submarine HMS Oberon. The book then does a brief comparison of their specs and points out that the new Oberon could easily take on all the navies of the 20th century combined. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During the push to Cardassia, after the destruction of the USS Defiant, the USS São Paulo is delivered to DS9 as a replacement. Along with the vessel came a special dispensation from the Chief of Starfleet Operations to change the vessel's name to USS Defiant. | |
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After the SSV Normandy SR-1 is destroyed in the opening cutscene of Mass Effect 2, Shepard and Joker name their new ship Normandy SR-2. It is strongly implied that the decision was a no-brainer. | |
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In the Wing Commander Expanded Universe, many ships are named in honor of previous ships which were decomissioned or destroyed in battle. At least one case of this, the TCS Concordia, was the subject of a Continuity Snarl when the authors couldn't decide if the pre-war carrier Concordia featured in Action Stations was meant to be the same ship as the Dreadnought that featured in Wing Commander II. | |
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The Star Trek franchise has a long tradition of legacy naming of ships. Although many ships in sequel series have been named after ships from earlier series, the Original Series actually named the bulk of Federation starships mentioned in the series after Earth naval vessels, either directly (e.g. Enterprise, Hood, Potemkin) or indirectly (Defiant being derived from the HMS Defiance). Star Trek: The Next Generation's main setting is aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, fifth Starfleet ship to bear that name and registry number, following the precedent set in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The season 3 episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" where the previous ship, the Enterprise-C accidentally traveled forward in time in the middle of the battle that would see her destroyed defending a Klingon colony from a Romulan attack. The disappearance looked like flight from battle and thus cowardice to the Klingons, who are now winning an attrition war against the Federation. The episode's plot is about sending the Enterprise-C back to face her doom while fending off angry klingon warships in the present. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: During the push to Cardassia, after the destruction of the USS Defiant, the USS São Paulo is delivered to DS9 as a replacement. Along with the vessel came a special dispensation from the Chief of Starfleet Operations to change the vessel's name to USS Defiant. The first Defiant-class USS Defiant is itself an example of this, since it was named after the Constitution-class USS Defiant from Star Trek: The Original Series, the one that ended up getting sucked into the Mirror Universe. Sisko's previous starship, the Saratoga (destroyed in the Battle of Wolf 359), was named after one of the ships disabled by the alien probe in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. A Time Travel in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Azati Prime" confirms that there have been at least 10 ships named after the original Enterprise: A—J. Interestingly, only the Enterprise is directly witnessed to get the "more advanced version of its predecessor, with a letter added" treatment. We never meet another ship with a letter suffix like the Enterprises, and we see many ships with the same name as a past ship but nothing in common design- or number-wise. Even DS9's second Defiant of the same class as the original gets the same number with no "A." (likely due to budgetary/convenience reasons: Stock Footage can continue to be used and models don't have to be altered.) This is finally extended to other ships with the brief appearance of the 32nd century USS Voyager, NCC-74656-J, in the Discovery episode "Die Trying". Additionally, the USS Tikhov in the same episode has the registry NCC-1067-M and it's mentioned that the Tikhov has served as a seed vault since the 23rd century; this combined with its low registry number suggests that the ship is the latest (specifically the 14th) in a line of ships that have borne the same name, rather than the exact same ship from 900 years ago. Finally, in the episode following, "Scavengers," the tradition is extended to DISCO herself, as the ship gets an -A suffix in addition to a thousand years of Mid-Season Upgrades. When Archer mentions the history of the name Enterprise to Shran, he says the Andorians have the same tradition; Shran's own ship, the Kumari, is named after the first icecutter to circumnavigate Andoria. Star Trek: Picard sees the Enterprise legacy explored in the third season. A couple predecessor Enterprises are at the Fleet Museum under the curation of Commodore Geordi LaForge; the NX-01 and the Enterprise-A. The Enterprise-E is mentioned to have been lost while under Captain Worf's command. The Enterprise-F has a cameo during her final act before decommissioning: to lead a demonstration during Frontier Day. When Frontier Day goes horribly awry when the Borg trigger their plan to hijack all the networked ships and inflict a new assimilation method on all the young adult Starfleet officers on board, the old heroes of TNG flee back to the Fleet Museum, where Geordi reveals his secret project: the (mostly) restored and fully functional Enterprise-D, pieced back together from other mothballed sister ships meant for a museum showcase but still ready to save the day one last time. And in the denouement, the Titan-A, another ship with a legacy name and registry number, gets re-christened the Enterprise-G, with Captain Seven of Nine in command. |
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Iznogoud: "The Caliph's Cruise" starts with a sailor whose ship is named Shipwreck XXVII, the first 26 having been, well, shipwrecked. Iznogound books a cruise on the ship for the Caliph the next day, by which time the sailor has already had to move on to the Shipwreck XXVIII. | |
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Ultimate Fantastic Four: When Johnny is given the opportunity to name the team's new shuttle, he goes with "The Awesome". Despite Reed's objections, the name sticks. Near the end of the series, Ben is making his own shuttle, and we see that he decided to name it "Awesome II". | |
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Definitely the case in Animorphs; in the last book, the team sets off to save Ax in a ship which they name the Rachel, after their teammate who died in the final battle. In the same book, Ax is awed to learn that one of the Andalite ships that have come to Earth is named after his dead brother, Elfangor. |
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The first Defiant-class USS Defiant is itself an example of this, since it was named after the Constitution-class USS Defiant from Star Trek: The Original Series, the one that ended up getting sucked into the Mirror Universe. | |
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One Piece: The Straw Hat Pirates' original ship Going Merry is finally destroyed at the end of Enies Lobby arc, and Franky built the Thousand Sunny as replacement. Then, in the beginning of Thriller Bark arc, Franky reveals a surprise for the crew from the Sunny: the Mini Merry II, essentially Merry revived as a small motorboat. | |
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At the end of Star Trek Beyond, the Enterprise is a loss at about the end of the first act, and by the end, we see her successor, the Enterprise-A, get constructed in time-lapse speed. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Voyage of the Damned", an intergalactic cruise liner which transports alien tourists to Earth is named Titanic in honour of one of the most famous vessels in Earth's history. Aside from the Doctor, the only person aware of the name's significance is the Big Bad, who named the vessel and intends for it to crash into London. | |
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In the epilogue of Intelligence Factor, Tapu Lele is on a ship called the U.S.S. Thiver, named after her Inteleon. | |
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In Flushed Away, Rita's beloved ship the Jammy Dodger sinks. The movie ends with the launching of the Jammy Dodger II. | |
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The opening of Star Trek: Generations takes place aboard the maiden voyage of the USS Enterprise-B and has Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov of the two previous Enterprises as honorary guests. At the end, the Enterprise-D is mostly destroyed (the stardrive section explodes from catastrophic damage, the saucer section lands on a planet and can't be recovered). At the beginning of the next movie (Star Trek: First Contact), the crew is aboard the new Enterprise-E. This is even lampshaded when the heroes decide to engage the self-destruct to kill all the Borg infesting her: | |
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Ships in Stellaris have unique names picked from a name list. But since the name list is finite, names (especially for corvettes and destroyers) tend to be recycled with incremental Roman numerals added after the name. | |
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A level in Batman: Arkham Origins is The Penguin's docked freighter The Final Offer. A conversion between two mooks has them discussing rumors that Penguin is planning to destroy the ship and get another one. They wonder what he'll call it, and one of them suggests that he'll just name it The Final Offer II. The other one disagrees, reasoning that The Final Offer is The Final Offer, and you can't really have another. | |
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This is finally extended to other ships with the brief appearance of the 32nd century USS Voyager, NCC-74656-J, in the Discovery episode "Die Trying". Additionally, the USS Tikhov in the same episode has the registry NCC-1067-M and it's mentioned that the Tikhov has served as a seed vault since the 23rd century; this combined with its low registry number suggests that the ship is the latest (specifically the 14th) in a line of ships that have borne the same name, rather than the exact same ship from 900 years ago. Finally, in the episode following, "Scavengers," the tradition is extended to DISCO herself, as the ship gets an -A suffix in addition to a thousand years of Mid-Season Upgrades. | |
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Babylon 5 is the fifth and last of the Babylon space stations. The first four blew up or disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Played With in the case of the White Star, the Cool Starship that the heroes used for much of the third season. Near the end of the season, it was revealed that she was merely the prototype, with an entire fleet of ships being built and pushed into service, all named White Star followed by a number. Henceforth, the original ship was called White Star One. Only one White Star, the Maria, bucked the tradition due to the Captain being old-fashioned. The White Star herself was named as an inversion of the Minbari flagship Drala Fi (Black Star), which was destroyed by Sheridan by luring her into an ambush and the only time a human ship commander managed to destroy a Minbari capital ship and live to tell the tale (most others were destroyed by ramming). While the Minbari warrior castle consider Sheridan's tactic to be dishonorable, the spiritual caste feels differently, hence the name of the new ship. |
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Similarly, Star Trek: Armada has ships start getting letters added after their names when the name list runs out. Unfortunately, it can also make it possible for more than one ship of the same name (not counting the letter) to be in the fleet at the same time. | |
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Gravity Falls: Before their falling-out, Stan and his twin brother Ford worked on a boat called the Stan O' War with dreams of adventure on the high seas. In the final episode, the brothers, now reconciled, are doing just that on the Stan O' War II. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation's main setting is aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, fifth Starfleet ship to bear that name and registry number, following the precedent set in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The season 3 episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" where the previous ship, the Enterprise-C accidentally traveled forward in time in the middle of the battle that would see her destroyed defending a Klingon colony from a Romulan attack. The disappearance looked like flight from battle and thus cowardice to the Klingons, who are now winning an attrition war against the Federation. The episode's plot is about sending the Enterprise-C back to face her doom while fending off angry klingon warships in the present. |
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