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What are the abbreviations for shows?

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.
 
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.
 
*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.
 
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. :D
 
What I call them, IRL:

TOS --> "The Original Star Trek", "The '60s Star Trek", or just "Star Trek".
TNG --> "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Next Gen", or also just "Star Trek".
DS9 --> "Deep Space Nine" or "DS9"
VOY --> "Voyager"
PIC --> "Picard" (otherwise, see TNG)
Movies --> The number or the sub-title, it depends.

The others haven't come up, so technically I haven't called the rest anything IRL.
 
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