The meaning of the title "Starship Mine"

[DonIago]

Just because other people did something stupid doesn't mean you should do it too.

 

[Sakonna]

TNG is notoriously bad at titles IMHO. If they'd had another "A Matter of" episode, I'd have choked on it lol

I never realized there was more than one till just now! Weird. That could have been a once a season thing, then I would have noticed.

At least all the Trek shows avoided my most hated episodic title convention: everything in the season/series fits the same dumb gimmick. "Desperate Housewives" and all their episodes named after song titles. "Law & Order: SVU" and their years of two word titles in which the number of letters in the title added up to the number of that season. etc etc Just title your damn episodes individually!

 

[Mojochi]

I never realized there was more than one till just now! Weird. That could have been a once a season thing, then I would have noticed.

At least all the Trek shows avoided my most hated episodic title convention: everything in the season/series fits the same dumb gimmick. "Desperate Housewives" and all their episodes named after song titles. "Law & Order: SVU" and their years of two word titles in which the number of letters in the title added up to the number of that season. etc etc Just title your damn episodes individually!

Oh... you mean like the one where Friends titles everything "The One". Yeah, that's pretty lame lol

TNG had its downside with really bland one word titles too. The... Survivors, Hunted, Offspring, Bonding, Price, Enemy, Defector, Child, Royale, Battle, Dauphin, Emissary, Loss, Wounded, Host, Drumhead, Game, Outcast, Chase.

Conspicuously, there are no "The" something episodes in all of season 7 & only 1 in season 6. I think someone must have noticed lol

 

[thribs]

Discovery's are even worse. Their titles are nearly sentences.

 

[Tosk]

Once you don't have to display the titles on screen any more, easier to let the word count get away from you.

 

[Lance]

My take is that Discovery's story titles, and a few of DS9's too, harken back to the more flowery, poetic titles of TOS. The one-word and two-word titles of TNG and VOY are much blander, more generic. I have an easy time remembering episode plots on those shows, but seldom can recall story titles off hand...

 

[thribs]

I prefer the Friends titles. The One Where..
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They’re easier to remember.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Discovery's are even worse. Their titles are nearly sentences.

Most of them are actual quotes from within the episode.

 

[Qonundrum]

I always took it purely as another way of saying 'my starship'. Like Enemy Mine.

Which leads to a great idea for a sequel, which would also be based on a movie... starring Captain Kirk and takes place on the USS Enterprise:

Spoiler

"Starship Yours, Mine, and Ours"

 

[Mott the barber]

I always thought they were unsuccessfully trying to get a double meaning with it. One meaning being the possessiveness angle (Picard claiming the ship as mine, the would-be thieves doing the same), and the other being a play on explosiveness/destruction, the "mine" of the title invoking land mines, which resonates in this episode with the deadliness of the baryon sweep, the explosion Picard sets off, the various assaults, etc.

But my main takeaway was always: weird title, they did not successfully find whatever it is they were going for with that.

I thought it was one (or both) of these two, too.