Starfleet Academy General Discussion Thread

[Starflight]

Voyager is VGR to me. No idea where or why I picked this up over the far more common version, but still.

The two-letter issue for Lower Decks and Short Treks can be circumvented easy by just making it LDS and STS, easy. TRADITION MAINTAINED

 

[Santa Kang]

Star Wars isn't Star Trek and Alien is a franchise that deserves to burn in the deepest pits of hell so neither are comparable to Star Trek.

Don't mince words, Bones. Tell us how you really feel.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Voyager is VGR to me. No idea where or why I picked this up over the far more common version, but still.

The two-letter issue for Lower Decks and Short Treks can be circumvented easy by just making it LDS and STS, easy. TRADITION MAINTAINED

V'Ger? Lol

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Don't mince words, Bones. Tell us how you really feel.

*Types many words*

*Computer crashes losing all work*


*Deep sigh*

I don't particularly care for it.

 

[ToddCam]

Voyager is VGR to me. No idea where or why I picked this up over the far more common version, but still.

The two-letter issue for Lower Decks and Short Treks can be circumvented easy by just making it LDS and STS, easy. TRADITION MAINTAINED

It's the abbreviation used in the Star Trek Chronology and the Star Trek Encyclopedia. It is my preferred abbreviation as well.

 

[Santa Kang]

TOS
TNG
DS9
VOY
DISCO (Come at me bro!!!!)
PIC
SNW
LDS
PRO
SFA

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

DISCO (Come at me bro!!!!)

Someone should put this on a T-shirt.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

DS9 is the outlier - DS9 instead of DSN.

TOS, DS9, VOY and ENT are all outliers there and STD doesn't fit with either the overarching pattern or any of the outliers. The only thing it has in common with these is being 3 letters, which makes it no different than DSC.

 

[SantaEddie74]

Why PIC? Is that Picard? If so STP is way better. What's DSC?

PIC is literally half the letters in Picard. It works perfectly.

The other is DSC. I mean, how many other Trek series start with that letter?

 

[ToddCam]

If one were not doing a childish dig at Discovery, if you wanted to be consistent, the shows would have to include STV, STE, STP, and, er... STP.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Imagine putting this much effort into justifying the usage of an acronym that Beavis and Butthead would come up with and then snicker about endlessly.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Imagine putting this much effort into justify the usage of an acronym that Beavis and Butthead would come up with and then snicker.

I truly believe that people don't want to be happy with their fandom. That, as Agent Smith says, people define their world by misery. So, even the supposed things bring joy for a fan must have a razorblade hidden within a compliment.

It's like a Quark/Iska relationship.

 

[Jason X-Mas]

Disco should be called STD in order to be a cautionary tell for future Star Trek show creators. When you come up with the name of your ship avoid D names. Unless you got a creative way around it like Deep Space Nine.

 

[Jason X-Mas]

Imagine putting this much effort into justifying the usage of an acronym that Beavis and Butthead would come up with and then snicker about endlessly.

Problem is it doesn't take much effort. I can't believe they didn't even consider the ramifications of naming a ship a D name.

 

[ToddCam]

Also, if you think about it, TOS and TAS are not even part of the original titles of those shows. They were both titled Star Trek.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

Also, if you think about it, TOS and TAS are not even part of the original titles of those shows. They were both titled Star Trek.

True. Should just be ST for both. Then you have ST the movie. Then ST the other movie.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Disco should be called STD in order to be a cautionary tell for future Star Trek show creators. When you come up with the name of your ship avoid D names. Unless you got a creative way around it like Deep Space Nine.

Problem is it doesn't take much effort. I can't believe they didn't even consider the ramifications of naming a ship a D name.

This is even more pathetic than your usual nonsense.

 

[Santa Kang]

Also, if you think about it, TOS and TAS are not even part of the original titles of those shows. They were both titled Star Trek.

STO and STA...
Hold on, I'm being informed they've already been taken...

 

[Tuskin38]

TOS, DS9, VOY and ENT are all outliers there and STD doesn't fit with either the overarching pattern or any of the outliers. The only thing it has in common with these is being 3 letters, which makes it no different than DSC.

DSC is also the official in-universe abbreviation. It's written on their Shuttlecraft.
The Shenzhou shuttlecraft had SHZ on them.

Voyager is VGR to me. No idea where or why I picked this up over the far more common version, but still.

The two-letter issue for Lower Decks and Short Treks can be circumvented easy by just making it LDS and STS, easy. TRADITION MAINTAINED

VGR I believe appeared on some VHS releases, it's also the official CBS abbreviation.

LDS is the official CBS abbreviation for Lower Decks, and doubles as a comedic reference to Star Trek 4.

 

[Fateor]

DSC is also the official in-universe abbreviation. It's written on their Shuttlecraft.
The Shenzhou shuttlecraft had SHZ on them.

VGR I believe appeared on some VHS releases, it's also the official CBS abbreviation.

LDS is the official CBS abbreviation for Lower Decks, and doubles as a comedic reference to Star Trek 4.

A Star Trek show doesn't get to pick their own acronym, it's whatever the majority of the fandom decides to use. Which often isn't what the people making the show would prefer.