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.
To be fair, I never mentioned the abbreviation rules themselves, just the naming scheme of Star Trek shows. The addition of ST to any acronym does line up with that. However, I agree on the Discovery front I disagree on the Lower Decks one. I’ve never seen anyone call it LOW, it’s always been referred to as LD.
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.
There are two series which violate these rules.
To be fair, I never mentioned the abbreviation rules themselves, just the naming scheme of Star Trek shows. The addition of ST to any acronym does line up with that. However, I agree on the Discovery front I disagree on the Lower Decks one. I’ve never seen anyone call it LOW, it’s always been referred to as LD.
Yeah, according to this, there is some inconsistency in how the abbreviations are done across various sites. Some use LOW, some use LD or LDS.
But, as you said, “ST” is never used as part of the abbreviation for a show, only movies.
Perhaps rule 2 is “If it’s a spinoff whose subtitle contains at least 3 words”. That would be consistent with the evidence.
Lower Decks is LOW officially? Never saw that before. Appropriately degrading, I suppose!
According to this, there is some inconsistency in how the abbreviations are done across various sites. Some use LOW, some use LD or LDS.
Yeah, fans will call it whatever they want. Never knew LOW was the official term, though. I like LD more.