Maybe the title is Reliant because whatever they use to launch it - Khan or Picard - will just be the start. If they set up a range of compelling secondary characters, the show could continue even after they had departed it?
News CBS files trademark for new series STAR TREK: RELIANT
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now Destiny has been registered?
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/14/star...off-titles-leaked-internet-not-drill-7837529/
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/14/star...off-titles-leaked-internet-not-drill-7837529/
I always saw Picard as more of a Citroën DS kind of guy. His father would have a 2CV.
I can picture The Picard Show being called Star Trek: Destiny.
I guess it's a rule that every Star Trek has to have the dullest, most obvious name they can think of. Discovery, because they discover things and we know it from 2001. Voyager, famous probe, and it voyages. Deep Space Nine, it's in deep space and there are 8 others I guess. Next Generation, there's a snappy name and identity. Reliant, it's a ship name we know. Destiny?! What the... !! Bargain basement profundity. I guess they have a "destiny" of some kind, or a ship named that. Hi, I serve on the Destiny... We're ever so special, with our destiny and everything...
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Well, some of those shows managed good writing, so bad names aren't a crippling handicap to quality... Nothing says "bad writing" though more than "Destiny" as a series title...
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I just thought of a perfectly typical ST series title someone would actually think of: Star Trek: Starship!
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Well, some of those shows managed good writing, so bad names aren't a crippling handicap to quality... Nothing says "bad writing" though more than "Destiny" as a series title...
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I just thought of a perfectly typical ST series title someone would actually think of: Star Trek: Starship!
Star Trek: The Next Generation was the perfect title for that show. Told you in an instant what the show was.
It's possible to be too cute or coy or clever when it comes to titling things. I'm a big fan of what I think of as the "brute force" approach to advertising copy--and titles are advertising copy, at least to a degree.
It's possible to be too cute or coy or clever when it comes to titling things. I'm a big fan of what I think of as the "brute force" approach to advertising copy--and titles are advertising copy, at least to a degree.
And yet, my critically acclaimed STAR TREK DESTINY trilogy, published in 2008, remains the best-selling Star Trek book title of the past decade. And helped propel my later books onto the New York Times bestseller list. But sure, you go on and tell us, in your infinite wisdom, what makes for an effective, sales-driving title….
I have no idea what would drive sales, nor do I care. Actually that kind of Profundity Lite probably sells pretty well. You don't need to care what I think, just enjoy your success.
I'm assumming that it will be the starship USS. Destiny. Maybe the one Ezri Dax serve on, before she transfer to DS9. Or, it could be another starship with the same name. I wonder if Nicole de Boer will reprise her role as Ezri Dax if ask? Would she be the Captain of the Starship Destiny or it first officer.
William Shatner is a bit old for that now.
Ah, the Adventures of Wesley and Data!
Yes. "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was a perfect title. It perfectly captures what the show is.
The boring naming pattern started IMO with "Deep Space Nine". Not a bad title per se. But it's the one that has the least to do with the content of the show itself. Because they didn't actually go that deep into space. They were set at the Frontier, and pretty much stayed there all the time.
"Voyager" was again an apt title: They were constantly moving, the entire series was one, big "voyage". One can say it's a bit too on the nose, with the ship being called just that, but I'm with you there: It sells you the main idea of the show right away.
Both "Enterprise" and "Discovery" are annoying though - I would have generally liked it better if the NX-01 wouldn't have been called "Enterprise" (What's wrong with "Endeavour", if they wanted to stay this close to the original TOS?), and "Discovery" so far has jack-shit to do with exploring and discovering. These shows could have been called "The first Star Treks" and "Grim space-war show" for all that matters, and it would have been a better fitting title.
I like "Star Trek: Destiny" for the Picard show though! Gives us some headaches with the acronyms (DIS vs. DES?), but I like it for a show focusing on an old but familiar character. Would be nice though if that show then wasn't set on a ship called "destiny", but has another, different connection to that - say, a "destiny probe" being the McGuffin of that show or something.
Why the hell would anyone care about Ezri Dax?
I have not room to enumerate the ways. I do but I don't want to type about it.
It's Picard with Irumodic syndrome; hence he's 'reliant' on other people to help him get through the day.
What if Destiny is the name for the Picard show, and the Khan mini-series is Star Trek Reliant. They could frame the Khan series as a few of Khan's people talking about Khan's past as a framing device to enter into flashbacks of Khan's rise to power.
Maybe that's going too far though :P Reliant just seems more suitable for Khan, considering its the ship he died on.
Maybe that's going too far though :P Reliant just seems more suitable for Khan, considering its the ship he died on.
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