Star Trek or Star Trek: The Original Series

[cooleddie74]

I don't really know any Star Trek fans, so this problem of nomenclature doesn't really come up. It's the only Trek show my girlfriend is really familiar with, for instance. I just call it Star Trek. Should any further clarification be needed, then I would add "the proper one, you know, with Captain Kirk."

Anyway, what about the Animated Series? The title seen on the screen is also simply Star Trek and that's what IMDb calls it. However, Wikipedia, Memory Alpha, StarTrek.com and TV.com all call it Star Trek: The Animated Series.

Again, if clarification is needed, I call that one "Cartoon Star Trek", which is what the BBC announcers used to call it in the seventies.

That is a good point-the animated series just says "Star Trek" in the title. It seems to me that that was the first time point that new terms were required to differentiate between different Star Trek shows.

Probably where it originated...at the conventions in the early-to-mid 70s when TAS was still on the air and fans had to differentiate between the live action show and the new cartoon one. Acronymspeak probably got its start in the Trekker universe around 1973 or '74.

 

[Sector 7]

When you ask someone which Star Trek they prefer do they replay by naming an episode from TOS or by naming a series? Even more, they may answer with a movie. I don't see TOS as an insult to the original series. It is an acknowledgement to something that has spawned many children and now needs to be differentiated from them.

I'm sure George Foreman feels the same way.

 

[cooleddie74]

When you ask someone which Star Trek they prefer do they replay by naming an episode from TOS or by naming a series? Even more, they may answer with a movie. I don't see TOS as an insult to the original series. It is an acknowledgement to something that has spawned many children and now needs to be differentiated from them.

I'm sure George Foreman feels the same way.

When I was a kid and on an Ancient Egypt bend/kick, I named many newborn kittens after Pharaohs. At one point around age nine or ten most of my female cat's kittens were named Ramses or Thutmose.

 

[Elder Knight]

It bothers me when people refer to certain films as, say, The Godfather: Part I, or Jaws 1, but, what're you gonna do?

 

[Vonstadt]

Why just Star Trek of course

 

[cooleddie74]

It bothers me when people refer to certain films as, say, The Godfather: Part I, or Jaws 1, but, what're you gonna do?

Like the original STAR WARS(1977). I can go either way. Episode IV: A New Hope or "STAR WARS" work just fine with me.

 

[CaptainHikaruSulu]

Just Star Trek. Nothing more and nothing less.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

When I hear discussions like this (about any naming issue really) I fantasise about being despot of the world, threatening to call the damn thing "Bob" unless my own choice is taken.

 

[Kemaiku]

Star Trek: The Original Series

 

[cooleddie74]

I've taken to calling Season 6 of VOYAGER "C.R.A.P."

 

[Tyberius]

When I hear discussions like this (about any naming issue really) I fantasise about being despot of the world, threatening to call the damn thing "Bob" unless my own choice is taken.

Titan A.E.

 

[Longinus]

The Original Series is not a title, it is a description. Very useful one, though.

 

[cooleddie74]

And since TAS exists but also uses(more or less)the same opening titles and name it would have come about as a way to differentiate between the original live-action show and the 70s cartoon...even if the 80s, 90s and 2000s series spinoffs had never existed.

 

[seigezunt]

I don't mind using TOS. Helps sort it out from the dreck that came afterwards.

 

[TrekNut87]

Star Trek. The only time I'll use TOS is online, simply because it's quick and easy, but I do have a few friends that are into the various spinoffs and get confised. When this happens, I usually just refer to it as "The Original" and they know right away what I mean. Otherwise, it's just plain Star Trek.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I use both. Depends on the context.