Prometheus
We went around and around on the issue of a name for the ship.
The goal was to have a name that somehow evoked the horror of the events that are to transpire there, without having it be so obnoxious or horrific that no sane person would take the free trip never mind paying to go on board.
And it had to fit into lyrics, of course.
There are two songs which we bandied about as possibilities for introducing the ship - if we came up with a 2 syllable name, could use In The Navy, or alternative #2 would require a more complicated name: The Good Ship Lollipop.
We talked about using famous doctor's names - Bernard as the first to do a heart transplant, or Mengele as in Joseph Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor. I was not thrilled with either of those, although I could possibly have lived with the former - the latter just made me too uncomfortable.
We talked through a bunch of possible hospital sounding names - Mercy, for example. But that really wasn't working for us either.
Then finally one morning, Ross said "Who was the Greek God that pissed off Zeus? He was on a rock and kept getting his liver ripped out?"
BINGO!
Like Ross said, in Greek mythology, Prometheus was the guy that pissed off Zeus. Here is a little of what Wikipedia has to say about him:
In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals for their use. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while an eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day.