# Name that fictional ship!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 5, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914 "2007-05-05T19:33:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2007, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/261 "2007-05-15T15:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=kivvik]
Both are starships(mechanical) from Peter F. Hamilton’s “The Reality Dysfunction/The Neutronium Alchemist/The Naked God” series.
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Right you are.
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### Author:  [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/262 "2007-05-15T21:59:37Z")
[QUOTE=Steve Wright]
Well, they’re [reprinting them](http://www.titanbooks.com/dandare.html) …
_Alice Liddel_ - is that the ship from Colin Greenland’s _Take Back Plenty_?
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It is - Well done!
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/263 "2007-05-16T14:02:56Z")
How about:
_Fevre Dream
Lodestar
Lollipop
Pinafore_
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/264 "2007-05-16T14:13:28Z")
_Fevre Dream_ is from George R. R. Martin’s book of the same name.
_Pinafore_ is from Gilbert & Sullivan. I don’t think I need to specify which, do I? 😃
_Lollipop_ is from the Shirley Temple movie _Bright Eyes_.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/265 "2007-05-16T14:50:38Z")
Right you are. There’s a science-fiction reference to _Lollipop_, too. Anyone recognize it?
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/266 "2007-05-16T16:13:31Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Right you are. There’s a science-fiction reference to _Lollipop_, too. Anyone recognize it?
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Riker mentioned the USS Lollipop as a lie in ST:TNG, saying “It’s a good ship” 🙂
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### Author:  [@Emilio\_Lizardo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emilio_Lizardo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/267 "2007-05-16T16:21:05Z")
Its been sitting unanswered for 3 pages, but the **Kuan Yin** was the digitized-child carrying colony ship from James Hogans’ _Voyage From Yesteryear._
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/268 "2007-05-16T17:24:45Z")
[QUOTE=labtrash]
Riker mentioned the USS Lollipop as a lie in ST:TNG, saying “It’s a good ship” 🙂
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Exactly!
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### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/269 "2007-05-16T18:25:09Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay]
**The Weatherlight**
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Since no one has bothered with this one yet…
from _Magic: The Gathering_ starting with the Mirage block. I know it from the Rath Cycle.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/270 "2007-05-16T20:23:23Z")
[QUOTE=Emilio Lizardo]
Its been sitting unanswered for 3 pages, but the **Kuan Yin** was the digitized-child carrying colony ship from James Hogans’ _Voyage From Yesteryear._
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Yes !
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/271 "2007-05-16T20:43:51Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu]
Since no one has bothered with this one yet…
from _Magic: The Gathering_ starting with the Mirage block. I know it from the Rath Cycle.
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Geez, by this point I’d forgotten I’d even thrown that in there! 🙂 Very good, **gary**!
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### Author:  [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/272 "2007-05-16T21:36:30Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by \* **Tuckerfan** :
> P.R.S. Pathfinder was mentioned in Space Cadet by Robert A. Heinlein.
:smack: I’m an idiot - the first Heinlein book I read. How could i forget.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/273 "2007-05-17T00:10:44Z")
The \*Cortez \* was mentioned as an Earth Alliance Explorer Class ship in B5
All I can find for the \*Admiral Zheng He \* is that it’s an Aryabhatta Class starship in the Trekverse, NCC-1457.
BUT, the _U.S.S. POTEMKIN_ is also listed as NCC-1457-E
BUT, the _USS Fletcher Chaise_ is also listed as NCC-1457-A (from some Russian or something site).
Of course, I could be completly wrong
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/274 "2007-05-17T14:40:57Z")
The _Angel’s Pencil_
The _Princess Cecile_
_Mother’s Bounteous Teats_
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/275 "2007-05-17T14:55:15Z")
Try these:
\*Earth’s Hope
Masaryk
Bonaventure
Archon
Horizon
Phoenix \* (two related answers possible)
_Scorpion_ and _Charleston_ (and, for bonus points, tell me what they have in common!)
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/276 "2007-05-17T17:14:41Z")
Well, the _Archon_ is from ST:TOS.
The _Masaryk_ is from Joe Haldeman’s _The Forever War_.
I should freaking know _Earth’s Hope_. It sounds so familiar. :smack:
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/277 "2007-05-17T17:19:42Z")
Right as to both the _Archon_ and the _Masaryk_ (named after the Czech statesmen, presumably): [Masaryk - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaryk)
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### Author:  [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/278 "2007-05-17T18:48:37Z")
_Angel’s Pencil_ was from a Larry Niven short story whose title I forget. First encounter between humans and Kzinti.
_Mother’s Bounteous Teats_ was another Kzinti ship.
_Rachel_ and _Jungfrau_ were whalers the _Pequod_ encountered in _Moby Dick_.
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/279 "2007-05-17T19:56:33Z")
[QUOTE=mbh]
_Angel’s Pencil_ was from a Larry Niven short story whose title I forget. First encounter between humans and Kzinti.
_Mother’s Bounteous Teats_ was another Kzinti ship.
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Both correct. The Pencil was the human ship in “The Warriors”, and Teats was a Kzinti repair & supply ship in “The Man Who Would Be Kzin”.
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-fictional-ship/402914/280 "2007-05-17T20:21:17Z")
[QUOTE=mbh]
_Rachel_ and _Jungfrau_ were whalers the _Pequod_ encountered in _Moby Dick_.
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Wow…good call, I’m impressed. No seriously. That stuff can’t be garnered from the movies, at least I hope not. You may have actually read Melville. Good on you!
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