Naming voyager

Woden

This always bugged me about voyager especially when i was reading thing related to it.

Why it we called the enterprise "the enterprise", while we call voyager "voyager" not "the voyager".

i read one of the voyager books ages ago and it used the voyager but it just felt weird.

Whats up with that? Why would use The in front of most starships names but not voyager?

bizmark

Because THE voyager sounds stupid
and THE enterprise soons cool or the Defiant the Phoneix etc etc

Woden

yeah it does sound stupid, weird instead i'm trying to think of some other name that doesn't sound good with a THE infront of it.

Ro: maaan!

In about the second episode of Voyager (the one about finding coffee), Paris said "the Voyager". Clearly they realised how stupid it did sound and never refered to it with the "the" again...

Reason it sounds so stupid is probably 'cause it has an actual meaning. As in something that voyages. When you say "the Voyager" is sounds as if you're refering to what it is rather than it's name. (ie. Enterprise is clearly the name of the ship.)

BoB_BoT

The Voyager sounds like some sort of purv lurking about your house looking in your underware drawers lol

Woden

so basically its rick bermans fault for naming the whole bloody series wrong

bizmark

every thing bad in the world is Bermans fault

Victor

Maybe because the Enterprise and the Hood and the Bismarck are named for something, Voyager isn't.

jaggeh

or because when referring to the ship as an object 'the' is used.

voyager
"we got to get back to the voyager"
enterprise
"ill blow up the enterprise"

better sentance structure i suppose

Woden

yeah but i can't seem to find a context in which 'the voyager' seems right i don't think it sounds right in your sentence above better i think is we've got to get back to voyager

ykt0di9url7bc3

"the DS9?" "the station"

Woden

i'd say got back to DS9, but i'd got back to the station