Build:Star Fleet Starship Names

2.3.10 Starfleet Starship Names

Starfleet represents the United Federation of Planets and its myriad planets, species and cultures. While definitely human-centric, due to its origins when first chartered in 2161, the ships of Starfleet are well-known to encompass naming concepts from across the UFP membership.

This page provides some examples of naming concepts and, where available, some examples of names within those concepts.

Geography

Earth Cities

• Cairo

Earth Continents

• Africa
• Antarctica
• Asia
• Australia
• Europe
• North America
• South America

Earth Towns

• Adair
• Lock Leven
• Rockwood
• Smoketown
• Valleyhill (fictional)

Earth Wilderness Regions

• Amazonia
• Appalachia
• Arnhem Land
• Baja California
• Bañados Del Este
• Caatinga
• Cape York
• Chaco
• Chihuahua
• Colorado Plateau
• Congo
• Kalahari
• Kimberley
• Llanos
• Miombo
• Mojave
• Mopane
• Namib
• New Guinea
• Okavango
• Pantanal
• Patagonia
• Sahara
• Serengeti
• Sonora
• Sudd
• Sundarbans
• Tasmania

People

Starfleet tends to avoiding ships after modern-era people, but there are exceptions

Education Heroes

• Eleanor Baum

Exploration Heroes

• Neil Armstrong

Medical Heroes

• Kylie Caniglia

Science Heroes

• Walter Alvarez
• Murray Gell‐Mann
• Brian Greene
• Stephen Hawking
• Rush Holt
• Stephanie Kwolek
• Alan Lightman

Technical Heroes

• Tim Berners‐Lee
• Derek Cabrera
• Eric Drexler
• Bill Gates
• Homer Hickam
• Marvin Minsky

Tribes

These ships represent cultures known for their isolation, making them good for scouts or units made to work in solitary conditions

• Asaro
• Catawba
• Chukchi
• Drokpa
• Gaucho
• Goroka
• Himba
• Huaorani
• Huli
• Kalam
• Kazakh
• Ladakhi
• Maori
• Melanesia
• Mursi
• Rabari
• Samburu
• Thakali
• Tsaatan
• Yali

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