Poll What abbreviation do you prefer?

[Cake]

What abbreviation for Star Trek Discovery do you like the most? We have for one the funny STD. Or the one syllable choice DIS, following the tradition of VOY and ENT. Or what a guy from CBS said, which was DSC. But he also used VGR instead of VOY, so you might be willing to ignore his opinion. Or do you prefer another abbreviation? Please vote!

 

[Mage]

I voted DIS, simply because.

 

[Jim Gamma]

DIS sounds too much like Diss, meaning disrespect (in the UK), so I prefer DSC.

 

[Cake]

I voted DIS, simply because.

I like it, too. You can easily say it in one syllable, just like TOS, TAS, VOY and ENT.

 

[aloha62]

Keeping in mind the disappointment so far 'STD' seems quite fitting.

 

[shapeshifter]

According to the link, the most popular abbreviation for discovery is DISC

https://www.allacronyms.com/discovery/abbreviated

How about that?

 

[uniderth]

DVY
DCY
DSY

 

[Kemaiku]

Star Trek: Venereal

 

[Seven of Five]

With The Original Series (TOS), The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space Nine (DS9), we have lovely abbreviations that cover all three words in the title. Discovery will be like Voyager and Enterprise in only having one word in its title (apart from Star Trek of course, though STV and STE just look wrong ) so I'll call it DIS.

STD is funny but it actually reminds me too much of STID (Into Darkness).

So yeah, I'll just be sitting here on my pedantry throne.

 

[uniderth]

I like it, too. You can easily say it in one syllable, just like TOS, VOY and ENT.

How do you say tee-oh-es in one syllable?

Besides "The Original Series" is not even in the title. The abbreviation should be ST.

 

[locborg]

If the show sucks and eventually fails you can be sure that the abbrevation STD will be known for decades...

 

[Overgeeked]

How do you say tee-oh-es in one syllable?

Besides "The Original Series" is not even in the title. The abbreviation should be ST.

By saying it as a word. Like the alien on the run in early DS9. It was called Tosk. Drop the k. TOS. One syllable.

You're fighting a battle that was lost about five minutes after TNG was announced.

 

[uniderth]

You'refighting a battle that was lost about five minutes after TNG was announced.

Never give up, never surrender.

 

[The Mighty Monkey of Mim]

Or what a guy from CBS said, which was DSC. But he also used VGR instead of VOY, so you might be willing to ignore his opinion.

VGR is what was used in the Okudas' Encyclopedia and personally I've always preferred it to VOY. (Where did the latter come from, anyway?) DSC would be my preference as well.

 

[Seven of Five]

In my head I say Toss, Ting, DS9, VOY and ENT. I don't think that makes sense really, but in conversation I usually use more words.

 

[The Mighty Monkey of Mim]

In my head I've always spelled out the letters, so they're all three syllables:

Tee-oh-ess
Tee-en-gee
Dee-ess-nine
Vee-gee-arr
Eee-en-tee
Dee-ess-see

The exceptions for some reason are TWOK, which I hear in my head like a Batman punch or a misogynistic slur, and GEN/INS/NEM, which I hear like the first syllables of their full titles. Brains, man...

 

[stardream]

I thought VGR was the unmanned space probe and VOY was the series.

 

[uniderth]

I thought VGR was the unmanned space probe and VOY was the series.

No, that's Veejur.

 

[Overgeeked]

It's V(smudge)GER.

 

[Wbino]

What abbreviation for Star Trek Discovery do you like the most? We have for one the funny STD. Or the one syllable choice DIS, following the tradition of VOY and ENT. Or what a guy from CBS said, which was DSC. But he also used VGR instead of VOY, so you might be willing to ignore his opinion. Or do you prefer another abbreviation? Please vote!

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