Federation Ship Name Suggestion

USS BILLY BISHOP
Named for Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop, (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956).
He was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 72 victories, the top Canadian ace in WWI.
During WWII, he was placed in charge of recruitment and setting up the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, which trained half of the British and Commonwealth pilots in WWII.
Bishop's decorations include the Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order & Bar, Military Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, légion d'honneur and the Croix de Guerre with palm. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 1 June 1944
-Suggested ship use: NCV (named for famous pilots)
-Alternatively: NVH/NHV, FFV (named for famous pilots/military leaders), FFG, FFX, FFB (named for famous military leaders)

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bishop

By Dixon Simpkins (Dixsimpkins) on Friday, January 18, 2013 - 12:08 am: Edit

Federation Ship Name Suggestion

USS MACKENZIE KING
Named for The Right Honourable William Lyon Mackenzie King, the tenth Prime Minister of Canada.
He served from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948.
W.L. Mackenzie King was Prime Minister during WWII and was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister.
-Suggested ship use: DWC (named for national leaders during wartime)

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_King

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:26 pm: Edit

While researching names of Federation Police ships, I pulled up both ship-name documents:

http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/Starship_Name_Index.pdf
Copyright © 1997-2012 Amarillo Design Bureau Revised 8/31/14

and

http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/Starship_Name_Registry.pdf
Copyright 1995-2014 Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. — Revised 4 April 2012

I found a bit of inconsistency. Here are all the Federation Police ships from the first document. I put an asterisk in front of any ship NOT listed in the second document:

http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/Starship_Name_Index.pdf
* Aceveda: Federation POL; Y166 destroyed during encounter the first Andromedan,SL212, First Encounter, CL#25; Y173, fought pirates SL324.
* Assyrian: Federation police escort cutter
Babak (Lt Oleg): Federation POL. Named for the first Russian officer to win Hero of the USSR in combat with ethnic rebels inside the USSR; Y179 defended convoy from Klingon PF raid SL162
Bailiff: Federation POL+. Received AWR refit; Y173, fought pirates SL324; Y177 defended Rigel-IV from Romulans SH63.
Ballard: Federation Police POV carrier
Bayliss: Federation Police POV carrier.
Behan: Federation POL. Y175 destroyed by pirates; noted in the background to T4S5
* Bernstein: Federation Police Scout Cutter. Traffic control ship at Earth
Bobby: Federation Police Cutter
Bolander: Federation Police POV carrier
* Brewton: Federation police drone variant
Brodie: Federation Police POV carrier.
Constabulary: Federation POL. Y160 Destroyed by Klingons SH76.
* Continuum: Federation Police Scout Cutter. Traffic control ship at Cygnus, used to test new electronic systems
* Corbin: Federation police commando ship
Crosetti: Federation Police POV carrier
* Davis: Federation police drone variant. Assigned to Federation northeast; Y173, fought pirates SL324
Deputy: Federation POL+. Received AWR refit; Y172 protected Calypso from Klingon raider SL338; Y180 Found group of Klingon ships that had been trapped behind Fed lines commanded by an Andorian. SH108.
Dragnet: Federation POL. Y167, fought at Hennigan’s Folly 8CM64.
* Dragoon: Federation police escort cutter
Earp (Morgan): Federation POL+. Received AWR refit; Fought pirates Y175 T4S1.
Earp (Virgil): Federation POL+. Received AWR refit; Fought pirates Y175 T4S1-S2.
Earp (Wyatt): Federation POL+. Received AWR refit; Fought pirates Y175 T4S3.
* Falconeye: Federation Police Scout Cutter.
Felton: Federation Police POV carrier
Gatekeeper: Federation Police Cutter
Gendarme: Federation POL+. Y171 Helped trap Orion Lion’s Heart Cartel SH68
Gianello: Federation Police Flagship. Y160 rescued tramp steamer Roger Maris SH191.
Giardello: Federation Police POV carrier
* Hammerstein: Federation Police Scout Cutter
* Harral: Federation police drone variant
* Hawkeye: Federation Police Scout Cutter
Holiday (Doc): Federation POL+. Received AWR refit. Fought pirates Y175 T4S3.
Holmes: Federation POL. Received plus refit. Y168 recovered GSC Cousteau SH133
* Hoover: Fed POL. Defended tug Galilei from Orions Y166 Sh131.
* Investigator: Federation POL; Y173 involved in Return of the Hood, CL#26
Justice: Federation POL+. Received AWR refit; Defended Rigel-IV from Romulans Y177 SH63
* Kersey: Federation police drone variant
Lawman: Federation POL. Fought Orions who had stolen SWAC shuttle prototype in Y165 SH58
LeBeau: Federation Police Cutter, named for ATF agent killed in Waco 1993; Y184 fought Orions SH198
Lewis: Federation Police POV carrier.
* Lumbe: Federation Police Scout Cutter.
** Mackie: Federation POL. Y170 Fought at the Battle of Blindside Station SL296
Magnum: Federation POL
Marshal: Federation Police Carrier
Masterson: Federation POL+; Fought Romulan Privateers Y172 SH20; Fought alongside Republic, Commander Harry Burgess, And to the Republic; ship destroyed in action, Day of the Eagle.
McKeehan: Federation Police Cutter, named for ATF agent killed in Waco 1993; Y184 fought Orions SH198.
* McKinley: Federation police commando ship.
Militia: Fed POL+. Received AWR refit. Defended Annox-V in Y178 SH104.
* Mitch Boyer: Federation Police Scout Cutter.
Mountie: Federation POL; Helped trap Orion Lion’s Heart Cartel in Y171 SH68; Received plus and AWR refits; Defended Annox-V in Y178 SH104.
Munch: Federation Police POV carrier
* Musketeer: Federation police escort cutter
Ness, Eliott: Federation POL. Y166 Defended tug Galilei from Orions SH131
* Novean: Federation POL; Y138 helped evacuation of Nashville (SL277).
* Onandolog: Federation Police Scout Cutter.
Pacifier: Federation POL+; Fought Romulans in Y171 pre-war skirmish SH69
Peacemaker: Federation POL+; Y171 Destroyed by Klingons on the first day of the war at Battle Station-7 SL117
Peaceofficer: Federation POL+; Y171 Destroyed by Klingons on the first day of the war at Battle Station-7 SL117
Pembleton: Federation Police POV carrier.
* Philistine: Federation police escort cutter
Posse: Federation POL. Fought Orions Y165 SH58.
Reno (Janet): Federation Police Flagship. Y184 fought Orions SH198.
* Rogers: Federation Police Scout Cutter
Russert: Federation Police POV carrier
Sipowicz: Federation police cutter; Y160 rescued tramp steamer Roger Maris SH191; Day of the Eagle, Briefing #1 scenario.
Sorenson: Federation Police Cutter; Y188 destroyed druing Andromedan attack on Rigellax SH221.
Stivers: Federation Police POV carrier
Summons: Federation Police Cutter
* Swatter: Federation police commando ship.
Texas Ranger: Federation POL+. Helped trap Orion Lion’s Heart Cartel in Y171 SH68
* Tigereye: Federation Police Scout Cutter. Assigned to Federation northeast; Y173, fought pirates SL324
Trooper: Federation Police Cutter
Tucker (Chief Warrant Officer Richard Alan): Federation POL
Watson: Federation POL. Y168 recovered GSC Cousteau SH133.
White: Federation POL+; Received AWR refit; Y175 Fought pirates T4S5.
Williams: Federation Police Cutter, named for ATF agent killed in Waco 1993; Y167 escorted convoy attacked by Orions SH132; disabled by Q-ship in first volley.
Willis: Federation Police Cutter, named for ATF agent killed in Waco 1993; Y167 escorted convoy attacked by Orions SH132, disabled during the resulting battle.
* Wolfeye: Federation Police Scout Cutter
* Woodward: Federation Police Scout Cutter. Traffic control ship at Earth

** The Mackie is listed here as a Police Cutter, but in the other document it is listed as a Police Flagship.


Garth L. Getgen

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:32 pm: Edit

Here are the ships listed in the second document that are NOT listed in the first:

http://www.starfleetgames.com/documents/Starship_Name_Registry.pdf

POLICE FLAGSHIPS:
** (Vic) Mackie --- listed as a POL in the other document
(Robert F) Kennedy

POLICE CUTTERS (old series):
Peacekeeper

POLICE CUTTERS (new series):
Calahan
Deckard
(Alejandro) Dominguez
Kojak
Malloy
(Mark) Majors
(John) Oliver
Osterhout
(Darius) Quimby
(Texas John) Slaughter
(Richard) Simms
(John) Walsh
(Jimmy) Wilson

POLICE MINESWEEPER:
Mikhail Chekanov

POLICE FRIGATE:
Wagenbach


And not listed in either document:
Tavon: Fed POL; Y171 fought with PV Marshal and PFF Wagenbach against Orions, SH228


Garth L. Getgen

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, January 30, 2015 - 07:48 pm: Edit

I'd like to offer the following names to add to the list of Federation Police ships:

POLICE FLAGSHIPS:
Sir Patrick Hastings: Attorney General for England and Wales, Jan-Nov 1924
Sir Thomas Inskip: 8th Lord Chief Justice of England, 1940-1946
Sir Frederick Whitaker: First and six-time Attorney General of New Zealand, 1856-1891 non-consecutive
Alfred Deakin: First Attorney General of Australia, 1901-1903
Patrick "Paddy" Lynch: Attorney General of Ireland / Irish Free State, 1936-1940
Sir Francis Bacon: Attorney General for England and Wales, 1613-1617
John Jay: First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1795
Salmon P. Chase: Chief Justice of the United States, 1864-1873
Sir Harilal Jekisundas Kania: First Chief Justice of India, 1950-1951
Siegfried Buback: Attorney General of Germany, 1974-1977, assassinated by Red Army Faction 7 April 1977
Pyotr Ananyevich Krasikov: First Procurator General of the Soviet Union, 1924-1933
Sandor Kozma: First Crown Prosecutor of Hungary, 1872-1896
Sir William Buell Richards: First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1875-1879
Ya'akov Shimshon Shapira: First Attorney General for Israel, 1948-1950
Sir Abdul Rashid: First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, 1949-1954


POLICE CUTTERS (for officers who died in line of duty):
Special Ranger Timothy Samuel Willard, Texas Rangers, 19 APR 1928
Private Dan LaFayette McDuffie, Texas Rangers, 7 JULY 1931
Quartermaster Sergeant Wilbert V. Hunter: Maryland State Police, Maryland, 7 FEB 1936
David P. LaMagne: Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, 11 Sept 2001
Kathy Mazza: Captain Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, 11 Sept 2001
Walwyn Stuart: Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, 11 Sept 2001
Colin Winchester: b-1933 d-1989, Assistant Commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, 10 JAN 1989
Woman Police Constable Yvonne Joyce Fletcher, London Metropolitan Police Service, 17 APR 1984
Baron, K-9 unit, Virginia State Police, 12 Sept 1962
Alejandro Dominguez Coello: (ca. 1950 - June 8, 2005) was the chief of police in Nuevo Laredo, a city on the Mexican side of the United States–Mexico border. He had volunteered for the job, which no one else wanted, and was gunned down on June 8, 2005, just hours after being commissioned.

POLICE CUTTERS (for other notable law enforcement officers):
Francis O'Neill: Chief Chicago Police Department, 1878-1905
Raymond Walter "Ray" Kelly: Longest serving Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (1992-94 + 2002-13)

Carabinieri: National military police of Italy

I used the Cutter "Sam Franklin" as background fluff in a story, but now I can't find where I got the name. It was probably from a random name generator web-site.


Garth L. Getgen

By Charles Chapel (Ctchapel) on Friday, January 30, 2015 - 08:10 pm: Edit

Don't forget the cutters is stories. There were some mentioned in "Day One." The U.S.S Charles was one of them. ;)

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, January 30, 2015 - 08:36 pm: Edit

Got a list of them? (Wouldn't be surprised if Ryan does.)


Garth L. Getgen

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Friday, January 30, 2015 - 10:13 pm: Edit

Some of the cutters are named for tv cops and other characters from fiction. Here's the list of Police ship names we've done so-far for Tenneshington Decals.

118-Peacekeeper
221B1_Holmes
221B2_Watson
627-Kojak ("Kojak" tv series)
744-Malloy_("Adam-12" tv series)
1835-Texas Ranger_Pol
1848-Wyatt Earp_Pol_5-3-2012
1851-Doc Holliday_Pol_5-3-2012
1853-Bat Masterson_Pol_5-14-2012
1887-Posse_Pol_6-22-2012
1920-Mountie_Pol_4-30-2012
1958-Lawman_Pol_5-24-2013
1959-Trooper_Pol_4-30-2012
1984-Gatekeeper_Pol_10-21-2012
2007-Justice_Pol_6-13-2012
2211-Callahan ("Dirty Harry" films)
2503-Gendarme_Pol_4-30-2012
26354-Deckard ("Blade Runner" film)

sp1572-Regan_Pol_5-7-2012
sp1577-Carter_Pol_5-7-2012
sp1825-Rooster Cogburn ("True Grit" film)
sp1838-Bass Reeves_(Fed. Marshall, insp. for Lone Ranger)
sp1932_Norberg ("Police Squad" tv / "Naked Gun" films)
sp1963-Inspector_Pol_3-22-2013
sp1981-Kommissar_Pol_3-22-2013
sp1982_Drebin ("Police Squad" tv / "Naked Gun" films)
sp3909-Castle_Pol_5-10-2012
sp8450_Vic Mackey ("The Shield" tv series)(actually a PFF)
sp23951-Wendell Urth ("Asimov's Mysteries" Asimov collection)
sp24177-Samuel Vimes ("Discworld" Niven novel)
sp24601-Emil Javert ("Les Misérables" play)
sp41319-Katherine Beckett ("Castle" tv series)

spFF-08_Bremen
spFFE-01_Hessen_Pol_FRA

Hull numbers on all of these are unofficial (I usually use their badge number, if I can find it. If not, or not-applicable, I often use their birth year or the year the film came out).

I wrote Drebin and Norberg into my Shipyard piece about the Fralli Powerista cruiser, a few issues back in Captain's Log.

A historical one that isn't on the official list yet, but I am particularly fond of, is Bass Reeves. He was an all-around bad@$$ of a lawman, and did as a black man in Reconstruction-era America. He was one of the inspirations for the the Lone Ranger character.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 03:03 am: Edit

Will, thanks for the list. I'll add it to my master listing.

Mike Bennett wrote to me and said he used the name "The Emitter Flash" commanded by police Lieutenant Commander Callahan Cobretti in a story he submitted for publication. I have no idea how that fits the "theme" that most police boats are named by.

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By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 05:05 am: Edit

Two web sites that I have found to be very useful are:

Random Name Generator
http://random-name-generator.info/

The Officer Down Memorial Page
http://www.odmp.org/
http://canada.odmp.org/

I selected the following from ODMP more or less at random to submit as Cutter ship names:

Sheriff Jesse Sunday, Cherokee Nation Marshal Service, Oklahoma, 21 SEPT 1897
Henry Vincents, Special Agent, Union Pacific Railroad Police, 19 AUG 1878 Carbon, Wyoming
Robert Widdowfield, Special Agent, Union Pacific Railroad Police, 19 AUG 1878 Carbon, Wyoming
John Luckie Elsberry, Night Watchman, Southern Pacific Railroad Police, 16 AUG 1895, Valentine, Texas
Harry Hinkson Boon, Detective, Pennsylvania Railroad Police, 30 JUNE 1909, Perryville, Maryland
Ralph Mullen, Captain, Pennsylvania Railroad Police, 10 SEPT 1917, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Leslie William Coffelt, White House Police Force, 1 NOV 1950
Albee Volney Forney, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Police, 24 JULY 1991
Michael J. Healy, United States Postal Inspection Service - Postal Police, 21 JUNE 1981, Chicago, Illinois
John P. McAuliffe, United States Postal Inspection Service, 14 MARCH 1960, Chicago, Illinois
Benedetto M. Spizzirri, United States Postal Inspection Service, 14 MARCH 1960, Chicago, Illinois
John L. Bashore, Deputy Provost Marshal, United States Army Criminal Investigation Division, 1 OCT 1864, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Josiah M. Woodruff, Special Agent, United States Army Criminal Investigation Division, 1 OCT 1864, Poweshiek County, Iowa
Karl Edwin Gustafson, Coast Guardsman, United States Coast Guard Office of Law Enforcement, 2 APRIL 1925, Race Point Lighthouse, New York
Sidney C. Sanderlin, Coast Guardsman, United States Coast Guard Office of Law Enforcement, 7 AUG 1927, Bimini Islands, Bahamas
Victor A. Lamby, Coast Guardsman, United States Coast Guard Office of Law Enforcement, 7 AUG 1927, Bimini Islands, Bahamas
Robert K. Webster, Operative, United States Secret Service, 7 AUG 1927, Bimini Islands, Bahamas
Lee Charles Hitchcock, Special Agent, United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 10 SEPT 1967, Pleiku, Vietnam
Daniel S. Tindle, United States Marine Corps Criminal Investigation Division, 29 AUG 1968
Jeanne M. Balcombe, Sergeant First Class, US Army Military Police, 21 AUG 1999
Elwyn L. Hargrave, Sergeant, US Army Military Police, 6 AUG 1941
Thomas L. Campbell, Staff Sergeant, US Air Force Security Forces, 26 MARCH 1978


Garth L. Getgen

By Randy Blair (Randyblair) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 06:06 am: Edit

If you are taking requests, I would like to nominate Eric Zapata.

By Mike Bennett (Mike) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 02:58 pm: Edit

Garth, did you get my email? I sent it to the one you have in your profile here.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 03:05 pm: Edit

A few things...

The official list is just that, but players can name their ships for anyone or anything. That said, the official list is what ADB posts on the website, not what anybody else compiles. Fiction authors don't add names to the list; ADB adds those names if they are approved.

We name ships for heroes (decorated for valor) not for those who are notable only for being killed on duty. (We will name ships for those decorated for valor posthumously, of course.) Nominations need be those who received the highest or second-highest awards, or multiple 3rd highest awards in combination with other reasons. Nominations need to cite the medals and awards won by the officers, not just give their name.

What somebody got a decal made for is not an official name, but can be nominated in the normal way.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 06:02 pm: Edit

Mike, yes, see my note above, unless you sent another email since; if so, I'll get to it in a bit. Need to go shovel snow. Lots and lots of snow.


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 06:52 pm: Edit

Garth: see my note, authors of unpublished fiction with unconfirmed names don't need to be sending names to you. None of the names you listed are proper nominations with need to list medals and awards.

The real story of how we used TV cop names has been told before. By the 24th century (or whenever Star Trek is) the chaos of the wars of the 21st century had screwed up the records so much that historians thought Kojack, Drebin, Nordberg, and Harry Callahan were real people who had movies made about them, like Serpico.

Randy: We need officers decorated with the highest awards for heroism. Being killed in the line of duty is not the criteria.

Mike: "The Emitter Flash" does not fit the pattern of police cutter names and won't be confirmed. You can pick a new name or I will.

By Will McCammon (Djdood) on Sunday, February 01, 2015 - 08:17 pm: Edit

Let me make this one official.

Nomination for -
Federal Marshall Bass Reeves

Escaped slavery during the Civil War and became an expert on Indian Territory and several languages while avoiding re-enslavement. Farmed post-war, until recruited as a deputy U.S. Marshall in Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma, serving 32 years. Never wonded, despite having his hat and belt shot off multiple times. Claimed arrest of over 3000 felons (including his own son, wanted for murder); said to have shot and killed 14 in the process.

Namesake for U.S. Route 62 bridge at Muskogee, AL.

Some have claimed his exploits were a source of inspiration for "The Lone Ranger".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Reeves

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Monday, February 02, 2015 - 12:13 am: Edit

SVC: Understood. If I find out more about any of them, I'll re-submit. Most of my list are from the Wild West days, before any such awards for heroism.

What about any of the ones I posted as Flagships?

And I have no idea why Mike sent his note to me.

Randy: Love the name, but I would have passed as 2011 wasn't that long ago. As I mentioned, I looked for "cool sounding" names from the old days, with a decent write-up of how they died. For the most part, I looked to avoid recent ones as they may still have living wives/children.

The ones from WTC / Sept-11 are an exception to that rule. Anyone who runs into a burning building after a plane flew into it is a hero in my book, whether or not they received a medal. NYPD lost 23 and Port Authority Police lost 37 that day. Obviously, I'm not going to list all 60 of them.

Will: I'll second your nomination. Not that my voice will sway SVC's decision.


Garth L. Getgen

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Monday, February 02, 2015 - 01:36 am: Edit

In the case of wild west lawmen, a long and distinguished career might suffice if properly documented.

By Mike Bennett (Mike) on Monday, February 02, 2015 - 09:34 pm: Edit

Oh, Emitter Flash was just something I was using as a filler temporarily. Garth was putting up names, so I thought I'd shoot that one to him.

It would be the 24th century's version of Gunsmoke.

Even the character Callahan Cobretti is a combination of Harry Callahan and the Cobretti character played by Sly Stone in one of his police action movies.

Very changeable. Just filler until or unless something better can be used.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Tuesday, February 03, 2015 - 01:31 pm: Edit

Watching a show on History channel in which mentioned "The Three Guardsmen" and said that in their day they were more legendary than the Earp brothers. I never heard of them and had to look them up on Wiki:

The Three Guardsmen is the name popularized in Old West literature describing three lawmen who became legendary in their pursuit of many outlaws of the late 19th century. Deputy U.S. Marshals Bill Tilghman (1854–1924), Chris Madsen (1851–1944), and Heck Thomas (1850–1912) were The Three Guardsmen, working under U.S. Marshal Evett Dumas "E.D." Nix (1861-1946).

E.D. Nix was largely responsible for bringing down the Doolin-Dalton gang, aka The Wild Bunch. Over 300 outlaws were either apprehended or killed by The Three Guardsmen.

I believe that all four men probably meet SVC's criteria.


Garth L. Getgen

By Troy J. Latta (Saaur) on Friday, February 27, 2015 - 03:16 pm: Edit

There used to be a topic where we proposed (and sometimes discussed) names for ships but I can't find it now.
It seems obvious, but I believe there should be a Federation science vessel called the U.S.S. Leonard Nimoy.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, February 27, 2015 - 03:48 pm: Edit

I think Paramount might object to that name. Maybe not, but I'd have to ask the lawyer. Did we name anything after Doohan?

By Troy J. Latta (Saaur) on Friday, February 27, 2015 - 04:17 pm: Edit

I know there was talk of a repair ship named for Doohan. I don't know if it got published.

By Glenn Hoepfner (Ikabar) on Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 09:53 am: Edit

I wasn't aware you can copyright (or otherwise reserve) a person's name so it couldn't be used in print. For that matter, I was always under the impression that SFB could use any material that was Star Trek up to and including the material in the animated series (hense, the Kzinti). According to my notes, Leonard Nimoy was playing Mr. Spock in the 60s, prior to the animated series.
'course, I could be completely wrong.

Oh, and lets not forget a Hospital ship named "DeForest Kelly"

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 04:48 pm: Edit

It's not a matter of copyright. It's a matter of what would upset Paramount.

It's also a matter of the Screen Actor's Guild, which rightly feels that nobody but the actor should make money from the actor's name or likeness..
For a fanboy to write a fiction story with the USS Deforest Kelly is one thing; for a licensed for-profit business to do so is something else.

It will probably (for us) actually be a matter of getting permission from the estate of the actors, which is effectively impossible.