Star Trek episode title word miscellany

All articles in the series Star Trek Episode Titles:

  1. Analyzing Star Trek episode titles
  2. What is the shortest Star Trek episode title?
  3. Star Trek episode titles: an interlude
  4. Single-word Star Trek episode titles
  5. Similar Star Trek episode titles
  6. An aside for the titles of Picard
  7. Star Trek episode title character miscellany
  8. Star Trek episode title word miscellany

After investigating Star Trek episode titles with interesting characters, lets look at ones with interesting words.

Numbers

I already included this as a side note in the previous post, but many episodes have numbers as words, with each series having at least one.

Title Series Episode
The Galileo Seven TOS 1x13
One of Our Planets Is Missing TAS 1x03
Angel One TNG 1x15
One Little Ship DS9 6x14
One VOY 4x25
Thirty Days VOY 5x09
One Small Step VOY 6x08
The Haunting of Deck Twelve VOY 6x25
Friendship One VOY 7x21
Shuttlepod One ENT 1x16
Two Days and Two Nights ENT 1x25
First Flight ENT 2x24
Babel One ENT 4x12

Ordinals

Title Series Episode
First Contact TNG 4x15
The Nth Degree TNG 4x19
The First Duty TNG 5x19
Second Chances TNG 6x24
Second Sight DS9 2x09
Second Skin DS9 3x05
The Seventh ENT 2x07
First Flight ENT 2x24

Non-English words

This is probably the collection that caused me the most difficulty in deciding what should be included.

I settled on:

  • Actual words (no 11:59 or E²)
  • Real word languages
  • Not proper nouns (especially names of characters)

Considering all that, there are in fact only two non-English languages used in the titles of Star Trek episodes:

French

Title Series Episode
The Menagerie TOS 1x15
Ménage à Troi TNG 3x24
Vis à Vis VOY 4x20

Latin

Title Series Episode
Sub Rosa TNG 7x14
Dramatis Personae DS9 1x18
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges DS9 7x16
Non Sequitur VOY 2x05
Terra Nova ENT 1x06
Vox Sola ENT 1x22
Terra Prime ENT 4x21

Honorable mentions

One Klingon word, and one Vulcan word that is only probably a proper noun.

Title Series Episode
Looking for par’Mach in All the Wrong Places DS9 5x03
Kir’Shara ENT 4x09

Character names

Who has the privilege of being named in an episode title? Again, there are surprising edge cases so I’ve split it up into several groups.

  • Q appears in the most titles.
  • Two titles mention two characters: Datalore and Ménage à Troi (which I assumed, in the spirit of the episode, is a reference to both Deanna Troi and Lwaxana Troi).

Direct character references

Definite direct references to characters in Star Trek.

Title Series Episode Character
Mudd’s Women TOS 1x03 Harry Mudd
Charlie X TOS 1x07 Charles Evans
Miri TOS 1x11 Miri
I, Mudd TOS 2x12 Harry Mudd
Elaan of Troyius TOS 2x02 Elaan
Spock’s Brain TOS 3x06 Spock
Plato’s Stepchildren TOS 3x12 Plato
Mudd’s Passion TAS 1x10 Harry Mudd
Bem TAS 2x02 Bem
Hide and Q TNG 1x11 Q
Elementary, Dear Data TNG 2x03 Data
The Outrageous Okona TNG 2x04 Thadiun Okona
Q Who? TNG 2x16 Q
Deja Q TNG 3x13 Q
Sarek TNG 3x23 Sarek
Ménage à Troi TNG 3x24 Deanna Troi
Ménage à Troi TNG 3x24 Lwaxana Troi
Data’s Day TNG 4x11 Data
Darmok TNG 5x02 Darmok
Ensign Ro TNG 5x03 Ro Laren
True Q TNG 6x06 Q
A Fistful of Datas TNG 6x08 Data
Aquiel TNG 6x13 Aquiel Uhnari
Dax DS9 1x08 Dax
Melora DS9 2x06 Melora Pazlar
The House of Quark DS9 3x03 Quark
Shakaar DS9 3x24 Shakaar Edon
Our Man Bashir DS9 4x10 Julian Bashir
Sons of Mogh DS9 4x15 Mogh
Caretaker VOY 1x01 The Caretaker
Jetrel VOY 1x15 Ma’Bor Jetrel
Tuvix VOY 2x24 Tuvix
The Q and the Grey VOY 3x11 Q
One VOY 4x25 One
Alice VOY 6x05 Alice
Rajiin ENT 3x04 Rajiin

Other characters

References to people, either fictional or real that were not actually characters in Star Trek.

Title Series Episode Character
The Galileo Seven TOS 1x13 Galileo Galilei
The Mark of Gideon TOS 3x17 Gideon
Requiem for Methuselah TOS 3x21 Methuselah
The Icarus Factor TNG 2x14 Icarus
Daedalus ENT 4x10 Daedalus

Indirect

Indirect references to characters that are awkward in some way.

Title Series Episode Character
Datalore TNG 1x14 Data
Datalore TNG 1x14 Lore
Qpid TNG 4x20 Q
Q-Less DS9 1x07 Q
Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy VOY 6x04 The Doctor

Accidental

Character names that are not intended to be references to Star Trek characters. Mainly The Doctor from Voyager, but also Q2 which was the script name for the member of the Q Continuum in the TNG episode Deja Q.

Title Series Episode Character
We’ll Always Have Paris TNG 1x24 Thomas Paris
Doctor Bashir, I Presume DS9 5x16 The Doctor
Q2 VOY 7x19 Q2
Dear Doctor ENT 1x13 The Doctor
Doctor’s Orders ENT 3x16 The Doctor

One

There is one special character name that is clearly not intended to be a reference, but comes up a lot - One from Voyager.

Title Series Episode Character
One of Our Planets Is Missing TAS 1x03 One
Where No One Has Gone Before TNG 1x06 One
Angel One TNG 1x15 One
One Little Ship DS9 6x14 One
One Small Step VOY 6x08 One
Friendship One VOY 7x21 One
Shuttlepod One ENT 1x16 One
Babel One ENT 4x12 One

Q

And finally, the letter Q appears a few times while clearly not being a reference to Q.

Title Series Episode Character
The Squire of Gothos TOS 1x18 Q
Requiem for Methuselah TOS 3x21 Q
Time Squared TNG 2x13 Q
Quality of Life TNG 6x09 Q
Aquiel TNG 6x13 Q
Rules of Acquisition DS9 2x07 Q
The Maquis DS9 2x19 Q
The House of Quark DS9 3x03 Q
Equilibrium DS9 3x04 Q
The Quickening DS9 4x24 Q
Inquisition DS9 6x18 Q
Non Sequitur VOY 2x05 Q
Equinox VOY 5x26 Q
Q2 VOY 7x19 Q
Acquisition ENT 1x19 Q

Just the character

One bonus list considering all the above - titles that are just a character name.

Title Series Episode Character
Miri TOS 1x11 Miri
Bem TAS 2x02 Bem
Sarek TNG 3x23 Sarek
Darmok TNG 5x02 Darmok
Aquiel TNG 6x13 Aquiel
Dax DS9 1x08 Dax
Melora DS9 2x06 Melora Pazlar
Shakaar DS9 3x24 Shakaar Edon
Caretaker VOY 1x01 The Caretaker
Jetrel VOY 1x15 Jetrel
Tuvix VOY 2x24 Tuvix
One VOY 4x25 One
Alice VOY 6x05 Alice
Q2 VOY 7x19 Q
Rajiin ENT 3x04 Rajiin
Daedalus ENT 4x10 Daedalus