Star Trek episode title word miscellany
All articles in the series Star Trek Episode Titles:
- Analyzing Star Trek episode titles
- What is the shortest Star Trek episode title?
- Star Trek episode titles: an interlude
- Single-word Star Trek episode titles
- Similar Star Trek episode titles
- An aside for the titles of Picard
- Star Trek episode title character miscellany
- 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 |