Poll Your Preferred Abbreviation

[BillJ]

Producers say it's DSC. So, it's DSC.

So it's 'check your brain at the door' with Discovery? Nothing there we can surmise on our own? We need the powers that be to lead us around?

 

[Cyrus]

Any of them except STD. It is clearly being used by the detractors as a derogatory way of referring to the show.

 

[ITDUDE]

Any of them except STD. It is clearly being used by the detractors as a derogatory way of referring to the show.

I use it all the time, both as positive and as a negative. I am consistent about it.
I did give STD a 4 out of 10 grade for season 1 but if next season was the best season of Trek even and it deserves a full 10 out of 10 grade, I would still call it STD. I wouldn't change the name to DSC just because the show gotten better.

 

[Amaris]

It's "DSC" for me, because I like how it works out. I don't mind what anyone uses, as long as it's clear to what it's referring.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

DSC

 

[Tuskin38]

Producers say it's DSC. So, it's DSC.

VGR was also the official abbreviation for Voyager, but how many people use that outside of CBS?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

VGR was also the official abbreviation for Voyager, but how many people use that outside of CBS?

Admittedly, I use VOY out of habit, but VGR does have a nice bit of symmetry with V'Ger.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

So it's 'check your brain at the door' with Discovery? Nothing there we can surmise on our own? We need the powers that be to lead us around?

I'm just saying that the people who make the show have a preferred term.

 

[ALF]

Star Trek: Disco.
Bucking the three letter trend, saying it aloud is it's own reward.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Couple seconds.

Oh sure, if you go around sober.

 

[Orac]

STD because double entendres are funny.

 

[fireproof78]

So it's 'check your brain at the door' with Discovery? Nothing there we can surmise on our own? We need the powers that be to lead us around?

What an odd thing to say.

I also called Data "Daita" because why not?

 

[Mudd]

STD. I can't get worked up about whatever else people say it stands for, and I give no fuck what the show's producers prefer or have to say about anything.

 

[Mechanoid1]

STD! A Rose by any other name..... or not. There's bigger fish to fry vs. how to consistently abbreviate this sci fi fantasy.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

STD. I can't get worked up about whatever else people say it stands for, and I give no fuck what the show's producers prefer or have to say about anything.

FIGHT THE POWER!!!

 

[gblews]

STD never bothered me. It always sounded like the kind of thing a high school kid might come up with. When it started to pop up I just thought, you gotta be kidding. But, some think it's really clever.

Now, DISCO was the one that really bothered me. Seeing Tilly and Burnham wear the DISCO tee-shirts was crushing.

However, I've now come to accept DISCO if for no other reason than as a way of differentiating between the name of the show and the name of the ship. I have bitten the bullet and used "DISCO" in reference to the ship. I use DSC in reference to the show.

 

[Nerys Myk]

DISCO, because it amuses me

 

[Levi]

I voted for DSC. It feels right. ENT, VOY, DSC, etc.

It is common practice or habit for ships/bases/centers/groups/etc. to make shirts or hoodies or other clothing for themselves specifically. I had just assumed the DISCO shirts were some type of issued shirt or something for the crew. It doesn't necessarily mean DISCO is an official use.

STD doesn't sound right, all joking aside. Since it uses "Star Trek" in it, and they don't refer to themselves in this manner. STD might be more for TV Guide use maybe.

 

[Greg Cox]

The STD joke got old way back when people were using it to bash STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS. And the joke hasn't gotten any funnier since.

DISCO, on the other hand, is pleasingly irreverent . . ..

 

[Discofan]

I wonder why the people that use STD never use the prefix ST for any of the other series...