Poll Your Preferred Abbreviation

[Cyrus]

Admittedly, I use VOY out of habit, but VGR does have a nice bit of symmetry with V'Ger.

I use VOY too, but VGR is more consistent with other abbreviations since they usually omit the vowels.

 

[Jesse1066]

I use VOY too, but VGR is more consistent with other abbreviations since they usually omit the vowels.

Unfortunately that doesn't work for ENT. But it's not one size fits all and that's okay.

 

[cultcross]

I tend to use DSC or Disco, but I've been known to throw around the odd STD.

 

[Timo]

DSC.

Adding the redundant "ST" to it makes me think of the good old Tracking and Data Relay Satellites - you know, the big things lofted to orbit by shuttle to support constant comms with the shuttle. Together, the TDR sats made the TDR Satellite System, or TDRSS for short. Which was made of the TDRSS satellites, or TDRSSS for short. Which were used in the TDRSSS system...

I mean, I didn't actually spot a publication using "TDRSSSS". But there were a few ones printing "TDRSSS" on their pages, and then putting the word "system" after it. And tons of "TDRSS satellite" references.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I tend to use DSC or Disco, but I've been known to throw around the odd STD.

Then you should be using protection.

See? Still funny.

 

[Mudd]

I wonder why the people that use STD never use the prefix ST for any of the other series...

Who thinks about that kind of thing? Seriously. I've always used it for the movies.

 

[Discofan]

DSC.

Adding the redundant "ST" to it makes me think of the good old Tracking and Data Relay Satellites - you know, the big things lofted to orbit by shuttle to support constant comms with the shuttle. Together, the TDR sats made the TDR Satellite System, or TDRSS for short. Which was made of the TDRSS satellites, or TDRSSS for short. Which were used in the TDRSSS system...

I mean, I didn't actually spot a publication using "TDRSSSS". But there were a few ones printing "TDRSSS" on their pages, and then putting the word "system" after it. And tons of "TDRSS satellite" references.

Timo Saloniemi

That reminds me of the people that keep saying "ATM machine".

 

[Tuskin38]

DSC is in the lead

 

[Tuskin38]

Who thinks about that kind of thing? Seriously. I've always used it for the movies.

Series not movies

 

[Discofan]

Series not movies

Indeed, sometimes there is a need to refocus.

 

[Mudd]

Series not movies

It's all the same thing.

 

[Tuskin38]

It's all the same thing.

The comment was specifically in regards to series abbreviations. No one was talking about the movies. People do use ST in movie abbreviations (I do too) but that isn’t the topic

I have seen some people use ST combined with the common 3 letter abbreviations

So like ST TNG, ST VOY.

Just not very often

 

[cultcross]

That reminds me of the people that keep saying "ATM machine".

"Decisive decision making" I had at work today *face twitch*

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

The comment was specifically in regards to series abbreviations. No one was talking about the movies. People do use ST in movie abbreviations (I do too) but that isn’t the topic

I have seen some people use ST combined with the common 3 letter abbreviations

So like ST TNG, ST VOY.

Just not very often

Just be careful with the :

ST:TOS
ST:TMP
STS9
ST:VOY
ST:ENT
STSC

 

[seigezunt]

I see "STD" used mostly by the haters, for obvious reasons. I like DISCO best, but I tend to use the more official DSC. I also like it because it looks like a file extension. (Actually, turns out it *is* a file extension)

 

[Lord Garth]

Admittedly, I use VOY out of habit, but VGR does have a nice bit of symmetry with V'Ger.

V'Ger came out of what would've been a pilot for a Star Trek series to launch a new network. And Voyager is the Star Trek series that actually did launch a new network. So even further symmetry.

But I use VOY myself.

 

[jaime]

Thing is..people did use STTNG and ST:TNG. TOS was sometimes called the Classic Series..but don’t recall STTCS. Usually just ST. The films all keep the ST to this day..and STSN was even a thing. VOY is where it changed I guess.
All of which means..yeah, STD is in keeping with some of the tradition, but it seems to have become a bone of contention. Can we just call it ‘Very.

 

[Discofan]

Or D'Very in reminiscence of V'Ger...

 

[Tim Thomason]

I preferred DIS because it's the simplest way, and follows the Memory Alpha precedent of VOY and ENT (and probably why they use it), and provides consistency in citations.

But, as I've said before, all the irrational seething hatred towards anyone using the STD acronym has gotten to the point that I'd rather use that than anything else. I've made jokes, but I actually really like the show and want it to succeed. But I don't know if it can with the brewing civil war in fandom over some silly three-letter abbreviation.

Season 3 of (ST)D(I)S(CO)'s existence may very well depend on what is decided by this poll.

 

[Discofan]

I preferred DIS because it's the simplest way, and follows the Memory Alpha precedent of VOY and ENT (and probably why they use it), and provides consistency in citations.

But, as I've said before, all the irrational seething hatred towards anyone using the STD acronym has gotten to the point that I'd rather use that than anything else. I've made jokes, but I actually really like the show and want it to succeed. But I don't know if it can with the brewing civil war in fandom over some silly three-letter abbreviation.

Season 3 of (ST)D(I)S(CO)'s existence may very well depend on what is decided by this poll.

I doubt that.