naming that last star trek “STD”.
They didn’t.
TNG
STD
It’s either TNG and DSC or STT and STD. You can’t have it both ways.
I prefer DISCO. Like on the exercise shirts.
Also, Saru would totally smoke everyone else on the Star Trek dance-off.
DISCO gets used for a lot of the PT gear and stuff but DSC is used on the shuttles, cargo crates and other labels. Which makes sense. Keep with the 3-letter acronym.
Agreed on the danceoff though. He can sing, surely he can dance.
It does make sense. On the other hand, I want to see colored spotlights and a mirror ball on the bridge.
I’m just going by common nomenclature. You absolutely can have it both ways, because I didn’t name shit. I’m just going by the abbreviations they commonly hold.
But they aren’t common nomenclature (as they’re only used by people who are being disingenuous), they don’t commonly hold (as they are not used by the studio, memory alpha, or really anyone in general other than trolls) and it doesn’t fit with the naming scheme of the series. So, like I said, you can’t have it both ways.
Yeah, I agree with you that anyone abbreviating Discovery as “STD” is doing it just to be obtuse. That said, the abbreviation rules aren’t quite as consistent as I’d like.
- If it’s the original Star Trek series, it’s abbreviated TOS (The Original Series).
- If it’s a spin off with a multi-word subtitle (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds), it’s abbreviated as an initialism of the subtitle (TNG, DS9, SNW).
- If it’s a spin off with a single-word subtitle (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Prodigy), it’s abbreviated with the first three letters of the subtitle (VOY, ENT, PRO).
There are two series which violate these rules.
- Discovery violates rule 3 by being abbreviated as DSC, instead of DIS.
- Lower Decks violates rule 2 by being abbreviated LOW, instead of LD.
