Pilot episode name
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In a sense it is...but rather than for producers to decide, it is for the public. It will be the only episode for free on broadcast CBS.... and it is a pilot in that rather than a network investing money to pay for it, it will be the public's opportunity to decide if All-Access will be worth the price.
The first episode will be called "Arrival."
It'll be made on location...
It'll be made on location...
It'll probably be called (...wait for it...)
"Discovery"
"Discovery"
And more convenient. Unless you've got a Vulcan-like computer mind, most of us don't remember episodes by their numerical sequence. Someone mentions "Arena" or "The Trouble with Tribbles," I know what they're talking about, but "S3 E22" does not exactly stick in the mind.
And, as Christoper notes, it's easier to reference the episodes if you're trying to track down the right DVD or stream them on-line or whatever.
Honestly, it's the same reason books have titles and table of contents. Nobody goes "Have you read Stephen King Story 262-B?"
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How about "The One with Great Ratings"?
Nobody goes "Have you read Stephen King Story 262-B?"
"No, but I saw the movie on VHS. And the remake on DVD. And most of the mini-series on NetFlix."
It does make referencing and remembering easier later on - even very serialised shows like The Walking Dead use titles. I suspect Discovery will continue the standard Trek format of giving each episode a title but I'm anticipating a break from the 'standard' Trek title based on a quotation or historical reference, as there's a tendency recently to have lines from the episode or other self referential stuff as titles, often quite long.I think it's weird when shows that never actually show the title of the episode on the screen still have episode titles.
Kor
Number One: A Star Trek Story
Really?
I've no idea. But for the joke to work....
So true. TOS thru DS9 Trek was pretty great with titles.
I really hope they don't do something like this -- I find it so annoying when shows force all their episode titles to fit into the same convention, like this structure from "Friends." Or every title is a different lyric from Sondheim (Desperate Housewives). Or every title is two words with the total number of letters being the same as the number of the season we are currently in (SVU). Leads to a lot of awkward, unmemorable, barely suitable titles.
I think simple one-word titles can work really well, when mixed in with "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky", "Where Silence Has Lease", "In Purgatory's Shadow", etc...
The first episode will be called "Number One."
Then the second episode will be called "Number Two."
Then the second episode will be called "Number Two."
My impression is that Tyler was the pilot-helm-navigator during The Cage, and Number One's console was the mid-23rd century equivalent of Data's station.
Snappy title, wouldn't you agree?
And then the third one will be called "Number Five" because they'll air them out of production order
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