Big E on Final Deployment

Started by mirth, March 10, 2012, 06:50:15 PM

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mirth

http://news.yahoo.com/storied-carrier-big-e-makes-final-voyage-180906276.html

Hard to imagine a day when the fleet doesn't an Enterprise in service. Hope one of the Ford Class Carriers will be the next Big E.
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besilarius

Well, it's happened before.  CV6, The Gallopin Ghost of the Hawaiian Coast, survived the Imperial Japanese Navy, but not the bean counters at the Pentagon.

As a purist, it was always annoying to me that on the last Star Trek series, the pictures in the Captains' cabin skipped the World War II version.  That old pilot, Gene Roddenbury, wouldn't have made that mistake.
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mirth

Quote from: besilarius on March 10, 2012, 06:57:17 PM
Well, it's happened before.  CV6, The Gallopin Ghost of the Hawaiian Coast, survived the Imperial Japanese Navy, but not the bean counters at the Pentagon.

As a purist, it was always annoying to me that on the last Star Trek series, the pictures in the Captains' cabin skipped the World War II version.  That old pilot, Gene Roddenbury, wouldn't have made that mistake.

I never noticed that on Star Trek. You're right, Roddenbury wouldn't have let it slide.

It makes me sick to think that CV6 was scrapped. That ship deserved to be treated like the Constitution or HMS Victory.
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Martok

With a name like Enterprise, she deserves either an honorable retirement, or to go out in a blaze of glory.  May the next Big E soon be put in service! 


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"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Epee1

Thanks Martok, maybe SOMbody can take this post down.

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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.