system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Star Trek] Hypothetically let's say the Enterprise-Z is destroyed/decommissioned, would the name be retired or there be a new suffix?
gpt
The naming would continue using letters in the Vulcan alphabet. 

From there, they'll move on to the Tellarite Phoneme Library, and then to Andorian Pictoglorps. 

Once they're through Denobulan Smellemes and Betazed Mood Lighting Thought Glyphs, though, they'll probably decide that enough's enough.