It's also the title of a Kurt Vonnegut short story.
Season 2 Episode titles, writers, directors revealed...
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Yeah, he wasn't always just a helmsman.
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That’s all semantics to me. When I think of the TOS crew, ‘scientists’ isn’t the first term that comes to mind. Of course this is LDS, so taking this that seriously isn’t required.
I don't see why not. Nominally, their primary mission was one of exploration and discovery. That's a scientific undertaking.
And it's important to remember (though Lower Decks often forgets) that the perspective of people living in the Trek universe would be different from the perspective of those of us watching a curated sample of its events on TV. The shows focus on the adventures of the command crew, but those dozens or hundreds of background scientists in the crew must have done research and made breakthroughs and published papers about what was discovered on their missions. The average Federation citizen would not have seen the adventures of the starship captains and first officers (unless they saw dramatized recreations or holosimulations of them after they were declassified), but would have learned about the discoveries they made through the news reports and science publications after the fact, so the names of the science officers and shipboard researchers who wrote those research papers might be better known to the public than the names of the command crew having life-and-death adventures in the course of gathering that data.
Not only that, but those background science officers would've probably been the ones who went on to teach classes at Starfleet Academy and write the textbooks that were taught to later generations of cadets, such as Ransom.
We're taking a silly in-universe gag way too seriously here, folks.
Spock was definitely a scientist and he's probably the most famous member of the crew.
Spock was definitely a scientist and he's probably the most famous member of the crew.
On a Star Trek board? Nooooo....say it ain't so!
It's not "sloppy" for two or more shows to use similar episode titles. It happens all the time. There are countless TV episodes with names like "Sins of the Father" or "Reunion" or "The Enemy Within" or "Nick of Time" or the like. Titles based on well-known literary quotes get reused constantly too, for obvious reasons.
Even more unusual titles sometimes get reused. Once when I was a kid, my local TV station aired reruns of Star Trek and Space: 1999 back-to-back one night per week (I think it was Thursdays), and one week, the programmers amused themselves by airing Trek's "The Immunity Syndrome" followed by 1999's "The Immunity Syndrome."
Even more unusual titles sometimes get reused. Once when I was a kid, my local TV station aired reruns of Star Trek and Space: 1999 back-to-back one night per week (I think it was Thursdays), and one week, the programmers amused themselves by airing Trek's "The Immunity Syndrome" followed by 1999's "The Immunity Syndrome."
No it isn't.
It literally is the familiar intro of the soliloquy. Okay, technically it's the third line of the soliloquy, but I doubt "She should have died hereafter; / There would have been a time for such a word" is anywhere near as well-known as the speech that follows.
Besides, "All our yesterdays" isn't the intro, and nobody objected to using it as a Trek title. Not to mention "Brief Candle," the title of my story in the Voyager: Distant Shores anthology.
As for "By Any Other Name," it's been used as a title quite a few times in film and TV, and countless times in prose (here's the list for science fiction and fantasy works alone). It's rather ridiculous to suggest that any single show has a claim to it, or to any other such title.
IOW, literally not the intro. Your statement is on a collision course with itself.
Huh.. need an episode with someone like, Federation New Service walking around, interviewing, and filming whats going on. Show that people are still interested in watching, news, documentarys etc. of starfleet crews, what there doing, what they have discovered, what adventures.
Hell, maybe show the crew on the rec deck, and them watching a TV show set on the NX 01 Enterprise, with look alikes cast. ( can just use a CG background)
Hell, maybe show the crew on the rec deck, and them watching a TV show set on the NX 01 Enterprise, with look alikes cast. ( can just use a CG background)
Can you copywrite a title?
You wouldn’t be sued for the title.Good question. A main-character title a la Indiana Jones, probably so. Verb-adjective combos, perhaps not.....but you can potentially be sued by the better-known franchise you're spoofing if your knockoff is too close to the vest....or becomes more successful than theirs.
To do a parody/satire or to use a title?
I think I could write a story called “A New Hope” with no problems. “Revenge of the Sith”, now that might be a problem.
First off: To copywrite is to write newspaper or advertising copy. You're talking about copyright, i.e. securing the exclusive right to produce and sell copies of your work.
Second: You cannot copyright a title. Copyright is something that applies to an entire created work, not a single word, phrase, or image. You can trademark a title, but only if it's the title of an overall series or part of a series, something that defines it as a unique brand. You cannot trademark the title of an individual story, episode, or book, and you can't prevent someone from using a trademarked title or term in a clearly distinct context -- only from using it in a directly competitive way.
Columbo and Star Trek both have episodes with the title "Dagger of the Mind." It happens.
I'd like to know if anyone has seen the source for this.
I mean, everything that has these episode titles either cites no source, or links back to Sci-finatic's video which has no source.
For all I know, he made all these up. I want to see something official about this before I believe it.
I mean, everything that has these episode titles either cites no source, or links back to Sci-finatic's video which has no source.
For all I know, he made all these up. I want to see something official about this before I believe it.
IIRC, someone mentioned he was a reliable track record for getting accurate titles in advance in the past. Regardless, we'll know for sure in a month.
Did you change your username?
Anywho, I'll be surprised if
"Under The Cloak Of War" doesn't involves the Romulans
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