they probably came up with vectra because one of them , probably the man who had a degree in engineering but had been a crappy engineer but a good worker who had moved up the chain of command and ended up in the corporate naming room came up with the notion that anyone consigned to such a gargantuan monstrosity as the vectra would be traveling with a destination in mind on a given day and might set a vector for a given destination and so maybe they should call it vector .