Poll Your Preferred Abbreviation

Discussion in 'Star Trek: Discovery' started by Bry_Sinclair, Mar 22, 2018.

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What abbreviation do you use?

  1. DIS

    15 vote(s)
    10.7%
  2. DISCO

    29 vote(s)
    20.7%
  3. DSC

    71 vote(s)
    50.7%
  4. STD

    25 vote(s)
    17.9%
  1. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    No, I just hated Empire for a long time ;)
     
  2. Nerys Myk

    Nerys Myk A Spock and a smile Premium Member

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    Spore drive? Holo comms? Windows?
     
  3. Turtletrekker

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    STD is so childish that I have difficulty taking anyone who uses it seriously.
     
  4. Refuge

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    I prefer Discovery but STD is so naturally organic.
     
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  6. Serveaux

    Serveaux Fleet Admiral Premium Member

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    Fussing about abbreviations or taking offense at them is so childish that I have difficulty taking anyone who does it seriously.

    But then, how seriously can anyone take the show? :)
     
  7. DigificWriter

    DigificWriter Vice Admiral Admiral

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    DSC. It's one of the two official abbreviated designators for the series (the other being DISCO), and there's never been another series in the history of the franchise where the official designator hasn't been used. Anyone trying to 'buck that' by referring to the series as anything else, but especially 'STD', is just doing so because they don't like the series and think it's a clever way to diss it without appearing to diss it, but it's not clever, it's obnoxious.
     
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  8. Tuskin38

    Tuskin38 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Nope. Some people using STD are not doing it because they hate the show.

    Do you think people calling Voyager 'VOY' instead of 'VGR' hate the show?

    VGR is the official CBS abbreviation you know.
     
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  9. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    We don't really know until the new Star Trek Encyclopedia (or as I call it, NSTE) comes out.
     
  10. Tuskin38

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    It's already been confirmed.
     
  11. DigificWriter

    DigificWriter Vice Admiral Admiral

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    It's not, actually; the official abbreviation for Voyager is VOY.
     
  12. fireproof78

    fireproof78 Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Got to work on my sarcasm in text form.
     
  13. BillJ

    BillJ The King of Kings Premium Member

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    How about taking each person as an individual instead of trying to assign a label to them based on an acronym?
     
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  14. CorporalClegg

    CorporalClegg Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Give me Disco or give me death.
     
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  15. Tenacity

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    There's TOS, which (as I understand it) was a creation of the fan base, and not something that the franchise owners came up with, they just eventual started using It.

    How many different short-hand identifiers were bandied about before TOS was generally accepted?
     
  16. Tuskin38

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  17. Serveaux

    Serveaux Fleet Admiral Premium Member

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    Don't think that's happening soon, dude.
     
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  18. Greg Cox

    Greg Cox Admiral Premium Member

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    But, as demonstrated above, "STD" is like "Uranus." There's almost no way to use it in a sentence without provoking snickers. :)
     
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  19. Serveaux

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    And yet the planet's still named Uranus.

    We know, of course, that by the 30th century it will be renamed Urectum.
     
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  20. CorporalClegg

    CorporalClegg Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    Hell, you nearly killed 'em.
     
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