Last month, Commander Riker announced a contest in which our crew would have the opportunity to rename three of our Type-6 shuttles. Over 300 possible names were submitted, and today, I get to announce the winners.
The three shuttles to be renamed are the Curie, Jackson and Yeager.
The three winning names, as chosen by the Enterprise senior staff are:
Probert
Voyager
Discovery
“Probert” will be the new name for shuttlecraft Curie. The name, “Probert”, pays homage to Andrew Probert, the designer of the Galaxy-class starship, and, by default, the designer of the USS Enterprise-D. This winning name was submitted by engineer, Lieutenant Diana Giddings.
“Voyager” will be the new name for shuttlecraft Jackson. This name is taken from the two 20th Century Earth NASA space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both of which were launched in the year 1977. This winning name was submitted by our own page fan, Glenn Riffe.
“Discovery” will be the new name for shuttlecraft Yeager. This name is taken from the old Earth NASA Space Shuttle, Discovery, which was first launched in 1984. This winning name was submitted by a number of different people.
And, as a bonus, the senior staff had a fourth favorite name that they didn’t want to pass on, so our Pullman-class transport, Angelina, will be renamed, “Aurora”. This name comes from the Ancient Earth Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora.
All four auxiliary vessels will have these new names painted onto their hulls this weekend. They will be the new official names of these vehicles moving forward.
You can see all of our shuttle listed on our Auxiliary Vessels page.
Thank you to everyone who submitted names.
-Lieutenant Sam Archer
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October 11, 2364 -- (Original Devron Timeline)