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[X] 0: United Starship (USS)
[X] 1: Other - Stalwart
[X] 1: Khufu

The bandwagon is probably too far gone for Stalwart to even get in the running, but I gotta try.
 
Strunkriidiisk said:
[X] 0: United Starship (USS)
[X] 1: Other - Stalwart
[X] 1: Khufu

The bandwagon is probably too far gone for Stalwart to even get in the running, but I gotta try.
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You have my sword!

[X] 0: United Starship (USS)
[X] 1: Other - Stalwart

Cygnet is such a bizarre naming choice to me. Like, actual professionals will have to crew this thing, naming it over an in-joke that it looks kind of like a swan/duck seems odd. (Honestly the ship does not look especially swan-like to me to begin with.) Federation Starships are all about being capable, powerful, able to render aid in any emergency - they're the exact thematic opposite of "vulnerable baby animal".
 
People took the Stingray and Skate much further as a joke than was ever justified. There's zero internal logic to naming a cruiser, especially the first large scale production run of ships for the UFP, after a baby bird. Even as a gesture that Starfleet "isn't a military" it's just a self-indulgent in-joke that falls flat for the setting itself.
 
Mistholme on Heraldry said:
The swan is a water bird, both graceful and fierce, famed for its death song; it was said to bring good luck. It's found in the arms of Dale as early as 1387 [DBA2 153]. The young swan was also called a "cygnet", especially for canting, as in the arms of Synnot, c.1470 [DBA2 178].
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Medieval Hearldry said:
SWAN: The royal bird is the symbol of harmony.
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Especially for what is still largely an Earth-centric space force, using the heraldric meaning of the creature seems perfectly reasonable.
 
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Cavalier said:
People took the Stingray and Skate much further as a joke than was ever justified. There's zero internal logic to naming a cruiser, especially the first large scale production run of ships for the UFP, after a baby bird. Even as a gesture that Starfleet "isn't a military" it's just a self-indulgent in-joke that falls flat for the setting itself.
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Hence Stalwart, with connotations of bravery, dependability, and so on. Easily leads in to a lineage of classic Star Trek names like Reliant, Defiant, etc.
 
I just assumed cygnet was the first of a bunch of bird names, that and that swans are supposed to be a whole lot of fight for their weight. Like we'd get some sort of falcon, eagle, owl, cassowary, hummingbird, or robin. Some fancier than others and a few alien flying bird-like creatures too.
 
I like to mix in less "serious-face" names, just to keep things fresh when we do have those Stalwarts, Victories, and Enterprises.
 
Starfleet ships all having the USS designation just feels weird and kinda tacked on, when they specifically say stuff like, "this is the Federation starship So and So..."
 
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