Name

Character Names
Just as with starships, players will choose their name from a drop-drown list, to avoid silly names abounding. Ideally, every conceivable first and last name, separated by gender, should be available on those lists. First and last names are chosen separately, to provide greater customizability.

Once a first-last name combination is chosen, it becomes unavailable to anyone else. While this means that, yes, someone is going to be able to name their character 'Hugh Jass', at least there will be only one character going around by that name.

When characters are walking about in the game world, only their surname will be visible over their head, along with their rank insignia and health bar.

Starship Names
Starship names are chosen randomly, from an internal database. Just as with Star Trek Online, the player-base can be a great help here, submitting not only good-sounding names like Enterprise and Valiant, but also the names of famous scientists and historical figures (alien ships could have their names chosen from the relevant species' list of surnames).

Just as with characters, once a name is bestowed upon a ship, that name is taken forever. The only difference here is that, if a ship is destroyed, its name becomes available with a numeric suffix attached (e.g. if the Enterprise is destroyed, the name Enterprise II is added to the list of available names).