Episode Titles

[The Wormhole]

Why not? I think that sounds like a nice idea.

To each their own, but to me it just feels too much like the Family Guy joke about "whoa, they just spoke the title. How awesome is that?"

 

[Eric Cheung]

Will the episode titles have a naming convention like Seinfeld, The Big Bang Theory, Hannibal, Remington Steele, or Scrubs?

Whatever the titles, I hope there's a nice mix of poetry and exposition. And I absolutely don't want the first episode to be called Pilot, unless an actual person flying something has some thematic resonance. One exception was the title for the series premiere of Fuller's other show, Pushing Daisies, which was called Pie-lette, which fit in perfectly with the show's sense of wordplay.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I hope the names are long pretentious sentences like in TOS. None of this one-word name bollox from the later spin-offs.

Like "The Cage", "The Empath", "Arena"...oh wait

 

[CorporalCaptain]

"Obsession"... "Metamorphosis"... "Miri"... "Catspaw"...
a lot of "The <thing>""

 

[mattman8907]

im pretty sure i posted a thread like this like 3 weeks ago.

 

[The Wormhole]

im pretty sure i posted a thread like this like 3 weeks ago.

Cool story, bro

 

[Woulfe]

Episode 1 - PILOT - a new Discovery... sorry for the pun... nan' not really... ;-)

 

[JoeP]

From the new prop video:
https://streamable.com/tfevo

Unless they're using code names for the episode titles, looks like the title of episode two could be Tennessee Honey:

And have a cool hand scanner of some sort:

 

[Campe]

I think Tennessee Honey was the code name, a la Return of the Jedi being Blue Harvest.

 

[JoeP]

Pretty sure the code name was Green Harvest, no?

EDIT: Yeah:
http://www.blogto.com/film/2017/01/star-trek-discovery-filming-toronto-2017/

I dunno, do shows have code names for individual episodes??

 

[Campe]

Pretty sure the code name was Green Harvest, no?

No.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112580/what-is-the-origin-of-blue-harvest

(Admittedly, I accidentally put Red Harvest first. As soon as I posted, I remembered that wasn't right.)

 

[JoeP]

No.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/112580/what-is-the-origin-of-blue-harvest

Sorry, I meant Green Harvest for Discovery.

 

[starmike]

Green Harvest was the codename for DSC, yes.

 

[Campe]

Sorry, I meant Green Harvest for Discovery.

Looks like both:

Star Trek: Discovery began filming at Pinewood Toronto Studios on January 24, 2017,[112][42] under the working titles Green Harvest (a reference to the working title Blue Harvest that was used for the film Return of the Jedi) and Tennessee Honey.

 

[JoeP]

Looks like both:

Cool, thanks!

 

[MvRojo]

Tennessee Honey is listed on lots of the concept art that was shown in that prop/costume showcase. I'm sure it was just a code name.

 

[FreddyE]

I hope the names are long pretentious sentences like in TOS. None of this one-word name bollox from the later spin-offs.

How about japanese-style episode titles then? There are shows that have episode titles like: "Mystery of the Sleeping Sickness, Defend the Loving Hearts of Maidens" or "The Glitter of the Stars that Call Eachother! Haruka and Michiru Join in the Battle". (Both are titles from "Sailor Moon"..translated from japanese. The show tended to have overly long descriptive episode titles which often spoiled the whole big plot point of the episode.)

 

[CorporalCaptain]

How about japanese-style episode titles then? There are shows that have episode titles like: "Mystery of the Sleeping Sickness, Defend the Loving Hearts of Maidens" or "The Glitter of the Stars that Call Eachother! Haruka and Michiru Join in the Battle". (Both are titles from "Sailor Moon"..translated from japanese. The show tended to have overly long descriptive episode titles which often spoiled the whole big plot point of the episode.)

Would that be kinda like "The Troublesome Overpopulating Tribbles" or "Charlie Is Too Powerful to Stay"?

 

[starmike]

I'd be upset if at least one episode didn't have the word "Factor" in it.

 

[Ensign Ogahd Ahmganadai]

And I hope they don't rip off Yeats' "The Second Coming" like Andromeda did every other episode.

I mean, it's a cool poem and all that, but Andromeda (over the course of five seasons) took about the whole damn thing!

Um...it had all of two titles taken from it: "Its Hour Come 'Round at Last" and "The Widening Gyre".