"Enterprise" or "Star Trek: Enterprise"?

[mswood]

I actually prefer it as Enterprise, then Star Trek: Enterprise.

For starters in life how do you normally refer to the various Trek shows, especially during their run.

Outside of the original of course and early TNG, I don't think I have ever called Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And only rarely would I refer to Voyager as Star Trek: Voyager.

And in reality, only The Next Generation needs the reference point in front of it.

 

[mswood]

Personally, I always thought just Enterprise was a better, bolder title for the series. Typographically, the word has a nice aesthetic to it, whereas the combination Star Trek: Enterprise looks too cluttered to my eye. Calling it just Enterprise somehow gave a unique character to the show. As Star Trek: Enterprise it's merely one part of a bigger whole.

And while it is part of the larger whole, it's less connected ( and should be) then what has occurred in modern Trek. Use of language was little less formal, we got to see traits and behavior that we normally wouldn't see from "heroes" and we got to see (at least in it's first year) the newness of what by even TOS was pretty old hat. Things like stopping what your doing just to see a planet or a comet, the excitement of discovering their very first civilized planet, the fear of simply things like transporters or unknown ships. all of these things aren't part of the rest of Star Trek, and while I wished those elements lasted longer or were explored even more, it doesn't change the fact that they were their at all in relation to what we saw as standard part of a crew's mission.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

I preferred Enterprise without Star Trek in the title. My reasoning is that as a child, I remember a lot of non Trek fans calling the ship the "Star Trek Enterprise" in the same intonation as if they were calling it the "Starship Enterprise" (as opposed to making it sound like they meant "The Enterprise from Star Trek"). Because of that, whenever I hear "Star Trek: Enterprise" I hear it in the same grating manner of someone trying intentionally to irk a Trekkie.

 

[Starborn Dragon]

More prequels:

Brady and Sons

Mindy!

McCloud, Texas Ranger

Xena: Destroyer of Nations

Argo City

And the ultimate Syfy Channel prequel:

St. Louis

Certainly not to have the first name of Duncan or Connor?

 

[Christopher]

Seven is Enough

I was going to suggest Seven is Almost Enough.

Gilligan's Apartment

True story: While Sherwood Schwartz was developing Gilligan's Island, one network executive tried to convince him to ditch the whole "stranded on an island" thing and make it a series about Gilligan and the Skipper taking various guest stars on island cruises. I wonder if that executive went on to have a hand in The Love Boat.

Logan's Walk

The prequel for this would probably be called something like Sandman or Logan & Francis -- a cop show about hunting down runners.

I think there were some magazine articles at the time that someone, either on the production team or at UPN, who thought the words "Star Trek" would automatically keep away viewers who weren't already fans of the franchise. Perhaps they thought they could sucker people in, especially when the original idea was to set the entire first season on Earth.

As a matter of fact, the producers of Deep Space Nine wanted to leave Star Trek out of the title; after all, it was a show about people staying put on a station, not trekking through the stars. But the studio insisted on the branding.

Really, it could've gone either way. For every Law & Order and CSI franchise, there are other spinoffs that don't use a blanket title. We didn't get The Six Million Dollar Man: The Bionic Woman or Happy Days: Joanie Loves Chachi or Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angel or Doctor Who: Torchwood.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Logan prequel could be called Enter Sandman.

Or it could have a theme like this:

Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream
The cutest Runner that I've ever seen
Give her two legs that are just like butter
Or better yet just bring Jenny Agutter
Sandman, I'm so alone
Don't have no Life Clock to call my own
Please don't shoot me with your beam
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream!

 

[Greg Cox]

McCloud, Texas Ranger

McCloud was from New Mexico.

Oops! I knew I should have looked that up.

 

[Melakon]

Lancelot Link, Street Chimp

 

[Christopher]

Give her two legs that are just like butter
Or better yet just bring Jenny Agutter

Cute, but the rhyme doesn't work. Here's a clip of Jenny Agutter saying her own name. It's not "ah-gut-er," but "ag-uh-ter" or "ag-yuh-ter."

 

[eyeresist]

Back and Forth Emails with the Agent of the Vampire



Shouldn't this be in the ENT forum?

I can appreciate why they did the title without Star Trek. For a start, just the name "Enterprise" is a bit of a giveaway (I wanted to form a scifi themed techno act with that name). The name of the ship by itself is quite stylish. And I don't think anything becomes less Star Trek just because it doesn't have "Star Trek" in the title.

Outside of the original of course and early TNG, I don't think I have ever called Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. And only rarely would I refer to Voyager as Star Trek: Voyager.

And in reality, only The Next Generation needs the reference point in front of it.

Yup.

Coming soon:

Batman: Gotham

Don't you mean

DC Universe: Batman: Gotham (before Batman)

 

[HIjol]

Not Lost in Space Yet

The W-Files

Rizzoli

Tango, (with no cash)

A Fistful of Quarters


OT:OP

I did not care much for Enterprise, but I do agree it should have had the Star Trek brand from the outset. IMHO

 

[eyeresist]

I'm Wondering What You'll Do This Summer

 

[FredH]

Mission: Reasonable
Some in the Family
The Penultimate Ship
The Sunset Zone
The Live Zone

 

[RodrigoBrowncoat]

Enterprise

Simple, clean and neat.

 

[Karzak]

My favorite has always been Navy NCIS finally dropping the "Navy" from it's title because the "N" in "NCIS" also stood for... wait for it... Navy.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

The thinking was that Enterprise was synonymous with Star Trek. At the time, however, I kept meeting people who used to watch Star Trek but didn't watch Enterprise and had no idea they were related. I like Enterprise as a title, but Star Trek: Enterprise has the brand name.

 

[Greg Cox]

My favorite has always been Navy NCIS finally dropping the "Navy" from it's title because the "N" in "NCIS" also stood for... wait for it... Navy.

I'm reminded of the title Nosferatu the Vampyre, which always struck me as a trifle redundant.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Magnum, p.i., Private Eye

 

[suarezguy]

I also would have preferred it to stay Enterprise, to keep with what was started and the idea that it is before the original series and the Federation. ST:E sounds too redundant, some of the other spin-offs somewhat do also but it's worse for a prequel.

 

[Greg Cox]

In the comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the hero works on TV show redundantly titled: "Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime."