What are the abbreviations for shows?

[F. King Daniel]

SFA is a little bothersome because it’s not STD for DSC or STE for ENT or STV for VOY or STP for PIC. Still liking ACA…

I'm pretty sure Paramount has sold Starfleet Academy tshirts and the like in the past with "SFA" emblazoned on the front. Might be a Berenstain bears situation though, I have a decade-old one somewhere and can't for the life of be remember if it's "Starfleet Academy" or "SFA" on the front.

 

[Lord Garth]

SFA stands for Starfleet Academy not Star Trek Academy. If it were STA, then I could see the concern. So, yeah, I'm calling it SFA.

 

[Arpy]

I'm pretty sure Paramount has sold Starfleet Academy tshirts and the like in the past with "SFA" emblazoned on the front. Might be a Berenstain bears situation though, I have a decade-old one somewhere and can't for the life of be remember if it's "Starfleet Academy" or "SFA" on the front.

Yup! I don’t remember one with SFA though.

 

[F. King Daniel]

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[Arpy]

*WAITS* Yes.

I always say TNG or DS9, I talk about those a lot. But I would say Voyager.

There's no real consistency for me. Unless by accident I have the system does it save me time? TOS, TNG, DS9 all three words. Voyager is one word.

I digress.

Right, saying aloud the abbreviation is a whole nother matter. I typically only spell out the abbreviation if the show title is too long. I would say TOS, DS9, and TNG, but then also Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Prodigy, etc. SNW is too clunky to spell out so I go for Strange New Worlds there. Some of the lesser watched properties I also usually give the whole title for — The Animated Series, the Section 31 movie, etc. I imagine in the future I’ll type SFA and say about Academy. I also type TAS and S31 while I say the full name.

 

[Tosk]

I'll jump in too. When referring to the shows in real life, I typically say:

Classic
Next Gen
DS9
Voyager
Enterprise
Discovery
Picard
Lower Decks
Prodigy
Strange New Worlds

Looking at them in that order I guess I subconsciously stopped shortening them at some point.

 

[Lord Garth]

I call them, IRL:

"The Original Star Trek", or "The '60s Star Trek", or just "Star Trek"
"Star Trek: The Next Generation", or "Next Gen", or also just "Star Trek"
"Deep Space Nine" or "DS9"
"Voyager"
"The Reboot Star Trek Movies" (can't call them "new" anymore!)
"Picard"

The others haven't come up, so technically I haven't called the rest anything IRL. The only ones that really come up are TOS, TNG, and the Movies. Sometimes DS9 or VOY came up in the '90s and early-'00s, IRL. Not recently. Some people talked to me about Picard when it came out.

Everyone talked to me about the 2009 Movie. It got to the point where I had to come up with a stock answer whenever I was asked, since they knew I was a fan. I'd lie a little and say, "I thought it was great!" The only time Into Darkness came up was one time when someone asked me, "So how much do you hate the new Star Trek movie?"

Though if I did refer to the other Star Trek series IRL, I'd only use the sub-title. When I'm speaking it, I only include "Star Trek" in the name for TOS and TNG.