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There’s a stonking nerd battle going on in the editor comments section of Star Trek: Into Darkness Wikipedia listing, where furious fans have so far penned 45,000 words on the subject of whether the “into” part of “Into Darkness” should be capitalised or not.
As with some of the greatest, bloodiest conflicts in the history of humanity, this war started over one very simple argument; should the Star Trek into Darkness listing be moved to Star Trek Into Darkness taking into account the alternative capitalisation of the word “into.”
The amazing, intergalactic argument has been raging since December. The main disagreement centres around whether four letter words should routinely be shortened in the film name as they tend to be in news headlines, or if it’s a Proper Name Of A Thing in the Star Trek universe as managed by Paramount, so ought to be treated as such. [Wikipedia]
The capitalisation of the word into doesn’t bother me in the slightest, but it’s nice to know that the pedants have woken up.
If it’s name is Star Trek: Into Darkness (with a colon before the into) which follows how all the other films have been named, then the into ‘should’ be capitalised. If the colon was not there then I’d say it should be lower.
The real issue should be, why have they not listed the colon?
Stop. Stop stop stop stop stop.
No one really gives a hoot.
JJ said the colon doesn’t work because he thinks new viewers get detached from watching the previous Treks because of the colons.
While an official announcement from either Abrams or Paramount is yet to be found, the title fits with the general impression that’s been given to this point. In an age of sequels and serialisations, it’s worth pointing out that the title does not feature a colon (like other Star Trek films), which would seem to bear some significance.
But some rumour postulates that colon stated sub-title for a film demeans the intent. Some large-scale film industry bollocks he is babbling on about.
They couldn’t have used a dash instead?
That’s the sort of weirdness that meant “John Carter of Mars” lost the “of Mars”.
Precisely.
That’s because Paramount haven’t put a colon in there, so it would be inaccurate to do so… but IMHO you’re essentially correct. ‘Into Darkness’ is a subtitle to the film and as such the first word should be capitalised regardless.
Mikeo is also right. No one really gives two figs.
Set phasers to indifferent.
Someone reads XkCd.
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/000/681/what-you-did-there-i-see-it.thumbnail.jpg
Just make it entirely in capitals, as eloquently shown here:
http://www.ukresistance.co.uk/2006/06/some-cream-rabbit-porn-that-reader.html
Why is it that Gizmodo is allowed to source from wikipedia but I do that in one essay and suddenly i’ve hit a major taboo?
these double standards sicken me…
Erm… because the story is about the Wikipedia article?
As a Giz editor yourself, I just realised that you’re probably being sarcastic. Sorry, my sarcasm detector is all over the place today…
I’m not so sure which is worse
1. That someone thought it was worth starting an argument over
2. That someone actually counted the number of words written on the subject
I suppose it does rather depend on is this a Star Trek film called ‘Into Darkness’ or a film called ‘Star Trek into Darkness’ in which case it is an English teacher who could give the answer.
But look on the bright side – we are getting a Star Trek Movie!
Welcome to the internet, you must be new here..
Depends on which acronym you prefer: STID or just plain old STD……..
Might just keep that I capitalised!
Amazing how nerds get into (Into) a sweat over this.
Most posters of benign utterances on the web can’t even get the capitalisation of the pronoun ‘I’ correct, so I’m amazed they’re arguing over bigger words!
All adjectives, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, subordinating conjunctions and verbs are supposed to be capitalised. Only articles (a, an, the) and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, for) escape capitalisation’s wrath … and only where they are not the first word of the headline.
I’ll get my coat.