Babylon-5 Shuttles & the Battlestar:Galactica?

[Dayton3]

Well if you want to get technical.

The Death Star was not a space station by any means.

It was a giant starship.

Of course, then again so was Babylon-4.

 

[GaribaldisHair]

Much like describing the Ark Royal as an airport.

 

[crazyhorse]

It would look good in the disco glitterball style although I'd have to have the stormtroopers wearing flairs though

Anyway it's a mobile battlestation

 

[Dayton3]

It would look good in the disco glitterball style although I'd have to have the stormtroopers wearing flairs though

Anyway it's a mobile battlestation

It can travel interstellar distances with relative ease.

Thus, it's a starship by definition.

Any kind of station is supposed to be "stationary".

Hence the term.

 

[Galahad]

You don't have to come to that assumption. You can conclude that ships, troops and assault equipment are permanently "station"ed there and that is where the name comes from.

 

[crazyhorse]

Stationery moves

You probably shouldn't stay still while at battlestations either

As for television stations

However in this case the word station would be used as in a military base term and would therefore correctly recieve the name mobile battlestation.