Alternate name for the Shatner Universe?

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  1. DigificWriter

    DigificWriter Vice Admiral Admiral

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    Hi, all. I'm trying to organize my E-Book collection on my computer, and need a folder name for the William Shatner novels. However, I don't want to use the term 'Shatnerverse', and am therefore seeking suggestions for alternate descriptors/names for that universe.

    Can anybody help me out?
     
  2. Markonian

    Markonian Fleet Admiral Moderator

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    How about Kirk Timeline (ST:KTL), or simply Star Trek: Kirk (ST:K)? Or, you could name the series after its first trilogy, Star Trek: Odyssey (ST:ODY).
     
  3. dstyer

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    :lol: How about "he stayed too long at the fair"?
     
  4. F. King Daniel

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    The "Kirk didn't die, he just took a power nap" 'verse?
     
  5. USS Triumphant

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    "Kirkwank" or "Shatnerwank"? :lol: Personally, I refer to it as "Shatnered Universe", after the similarly named game. ;)
     
  6. Christopher

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    The Reeves-Stevensverse? ;)
     
  7. RoJoHen

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    Is there a reason you don't want to use the term "Shatnerverse?"
     
  8. Mysterion

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    Ego-verse.
     
  9. Christopher

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    Maybe the same reason I wish there were a better term than "Abramsverse." It's kind of slang-ish, and it would be nice to have a more formal-sounding term, maybe one based more in the in-story attributes of the continuity than its real-world creator.

    Or maybe some other reason altogether.
     
  10. Mr. Laser Beam

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  11. Danlav05

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    I use Star Trek: Later Voyages (stemming from Marvel's Early Voyages and the fan series New Voyages) as an umbrella for Tos characters in the TNG era :)
     
  12. Tiberius

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    But this sort of thing is done with just about every fandom. There's the Buffyverse and the Whoniverse...
     
  13. Christopher

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    ^Well, yeah, but those are one universe each. Star Trek has a variety of parallel realities by this point, and it'd be nice to have some more formalized, less nicknamey labels for them. Abrams & co. (or most likely Kurtzman & Orci) gave us the really nice, clean, handy label "Prime Universe" for the mainstream Trek continuity, so it'd be nice to have something similar for other branches of the Trek multiverse.
     
  14. Allyn Gibson

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    Here's an idea. Call it "Star Trek: Odyssey," the umbrella title given for the first three books for the omnibus trade paperback. :)

    Not a bad idea, that. I think of Federation as Shatnerverse #0 for some reason. :)
     
  15. JarodRussell

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    Shatnered Universe sounds actually awesome.

    Dude, you totally shatnered it last night.
     
  16. USS Triumphant

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    I'd be tempted to say "Bet Universe", but I think that would properly belong to the "Mirror" Universe. So... "Gimmel Universe"? (I figure we're already using Greek for the quadrants, so why not use Hebrew for these. ;) )
     
  17. zarkon

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    I got a good performance out of me because I respected me so muchverse
     
  18. dstyer

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    Well, considering it's usage, an antonym of 'Prime' would be superfluous - maybe we should be calling the new movies the superfluousiverse?:rolleyes:

    Maybe not...

    Of course there's always the Nadir Universe. . .
     
  19. Christopher

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    Not an antonym. "Prime" means "first" or "primary," so we're looking for something like a numerical listing. After all, parallel timelines aren't opposites (since there are more than two of them), just -- err -- parallels.
     
  20. Defcon

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    Joseph Kirk Continuity?