I ready some of a very lon thread about the USS Intrepid, a TOS series (1960’s made a written) Starship in the Constitution class, crewed by an all Vulcan Crew.
The original question was “why an all Vulcan ship, named as an Amero-centric human ship name?
Comments ranged from “maybe it was lend-lease” or “A Vulcan captain might choose an all Vulcan crew”, “maybe it was translated from Vulcan”, to “these ships have a long life and are re-purposed”.
The actual ship itself, taken from the Vulcan faction pack, probably about to meet a similarly sticky end to the one in the series..
I was intrigued that every answer took the historians approach of “it has to have a real and logical answer in the Trek universe?”.
The obvious answer is, it was written in the 1960’s for a TV series aimed at broadening the thinking of, but also having to be harmonious with, middle American ideals. Most of the writers and crew served on ships like the Enterprise, Intrepid etc. It made sense to them.
Simple as that, it was generationally mandatory that the ship be named after a ship type that made sense to a post war English speaking audience. It still happens too much as it goes.
I very much doubt the writers, open minded as they were and known for pushing social boundaries at the time*, had the foresight or even vernacular to think 50 real years ahead.
Ironically, it is the general acceptance now of all things Trek that has elevated even those dated ideals to canon, thus needing real answers for real assumptions.
Including Russian and Japanese crew, trying to get a female first officer on the bridge and the first interracial kiss on TV.