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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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Well, they’re reprinting them …
Alice Liddel - is that the ship from Colin Greenland’s Take Back Plenty?
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It is - Well done!
How about:
Fevre Dream
Lodestar
Lollipop
Pinafore
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.
Right you are. There’s a science-fiction reference to Lollipop, too. Anyone recognize it?
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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” 
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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Riker mentioned the USS Lollipop as a lie in ST:TNG, saying “It’s a good ship”
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Exactly!
[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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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 !
[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!
:smack: I’m an idiot - the first Heinlein book I read. How could i forget.
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
The Angel’s Pencil
The Princess Cecile
Mother’s Bounteous Teats
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!)
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:
Right as to both the Archon and the Masaryk (named after the Czech statesmen, presumably): Masaryk - Wikipedia
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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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”.
[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!