`  == Usage of ``named after`` ==  There are numerous references to some starship being named after a particular historical figure, place or vessel; some of these are rather dubious. For example, U.S.S. Tecumseh is allegedly ``[n]amed after [the] Shawnee leader, an American ship, or the Canadian base.`` Which is it, if any? Ideally, we should be citing a real-world source (such as the writer who included the ship in an episode), and/or a canonical in-universe source (such as dialogue establishing a ship's history). Also, real-world vs. in-universe explanations for names ought to be distinguished (see U.S.S. Livingston, for example).  `