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It means thinking they should be together in a relationship (ship comes from the word relationship, I believe). This is a thing that people do a lot in fandoms for fiction stuff. Like shipping two characters together from comics or a TV show or whatever.
And Lemmy itself does one example of shipping that is iconic:
It's not a ship if its real
We didn't do that, the writers of Deep Space 9 did. We just like that they did. A lot.