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Kallah Ramson

What's In A Name

Kallah looked around her office with a smile. It was a blank bare room, seeing that all her possessions were still on Camelot, but it was her office and that was enough. Deck operations were going smoothly and had settling into a reliable pattern in the first 3 days of their maiden voyage. As she had mentioned to Zorn before their departure, carrier operations were a lost art in todays Starfleet. But, things were going well so far. She was going to begin at-warp launch practice and that's when things should get interesting. The transit from Earth to Bajor and then again from there to Avalon were too good of opportunities for such practice to simply pass up.

 

The one thing that was troubling her... simply because it was troubling to her crew was the lack of names for many of the craft they had on board. She had looked over the ancient Excalibur legend for ideas, as seemed to be normal both here and on Camelot. Much of the legends being Welsh in origin she had compiled a list of 6 Welsh rivers for the runabouts; Severn, Wee, Dye, Towy, Usk, and Teifi. She would have to see what the Captain thought of those. As well she was growing a list of names of Knights from Arthurian legend for the other auxiliary craft.

 

The fighter squads were another issue. She didn't want to discard the ancient Excalibur legend nor the fame the ship had earned in these modern times. But, it was time for them to earn a name for themselves. It was time to add to and not simply borrow famous names of the past. The Lancelots would be Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta squads and the Gueneveres Epsilon and Zeta. Time would give them proper names and they would give those names to all times to remember.

 

Kallah honestly found the whole thing odd but understandable. For Minarans names were nothing more than the thought "I am me", "that is that", or "they are them". For a mute telepathic race names weren't really that needed. But she had lived among many different races and understood the meanings. Where something could not be summed up in a thought a name served well. And it would soon be time to make a name for themselves...again.

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