h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

HMS INVINCABLE, 'come on lads well sink that one, invincable is she? well soon sea about that'

If anyone's read the Robert Asprin books "Phule's Company," "Phule's Paradise," ("Phule" is pronounced "fool") then I have a good name for a ship for the main character: Ship of Phule's.

Or how about Phule's Errand? A Phule And His Ship?

A Phule and His Money?

I think Enterprise is a silly name for a starship. It's a concept from economics isn't it, free enterprise. Why not just call it Marketing or Franchising. Spaceships should have names like Blackhawk and Swooosh. And imagine the confusion if you called a spaceship Jupiter 2. But the really big ones should probably have female names like ships. Complicated ones like Anastacia or The Lady Macbeth, no Jane or Suzie here.

Liberator was a good name for a ship owned by freedom fighters? They could hardly fight the Federation with a ship called Penelope?

Paint it pink and call it *Freud*

Beats *Heat Seeking Moisture Missile*




Always been partial to *Millenium Falcon* from SW though.

"Battlestar Galactica" Nice name, shame about the series....

Disco in space!

Yeah, and all the actors and actresses looked as if they had walked off a 70's soft porn film...check out the hairstyles...only let down by lack of John Holmes moustaches

Big hair and tight jumpsuits.

Not a lot of them went on to bigger and better acting careers!

Except for Faceman Peck... what about the gorgeous lipglossed first lady of space, Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers...

Always get that confused with *Flesh Gordon*

Have you ever seen it- very funny *porn* from the 70s.

No... but my wife, when she was a teenager went to see Flesh Gordon 2 at the cinema thinking it was the sequel to that otherwise splendid and worthwhile 1980s classic with Max Von Sydow...she was shocked, to say the least!

I can imagine. The prints of the original are hard to find, some specialty video stores have them. It really was a comedy though, with a lot of nudity thrown in. I mean, the monster was a giant penisaurus!

I have no idea what 2 was about, probably not as funny as per most sequels.

And of course, the original was a cinematic high point....

Cinema! Oh, we're talking cinema now!

I wish I could remember the name of Flesh's silver penis spaceship!

if I may ask a question that's bugging me here? In Andromeda, (nice name for a ship, imo) Beka's ship is called the Eureka Maru.

Now I've heard/read that somewhere else, can anyone help me out, because I can't remember where.

As for Flesh Gordon, I thought it was better than that other one... Flash...aaaahhhhhhh! (you can't have Flash without the aaahhhhh!)

In the harbour where I live there are lots of ...Marus. Japanese for sea so most of their ships are named that. Does that help?

Wasn't there something called the Koyabishi Maru manouvre from Star Trek 2?

I think it was Kobayashi. But like I said that would fit the ship thing. Although I doubt if they researched the names of Japanese *space* ships.