Voyager Broke A Star Trek Ship Name Tradition That New Shows Have Run With

On Star Trek: Voyager, it’s rare to hear the USS Voyager referred to as “the Voyager,” which breaks from the way the starships in earlier series have been referenced, both within the show itself and in the real world. As precedent, Star Trek: The Original Series established a way of speaking about the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 that always uses “the.” Star Trek: The Next Generation continues this tradition with its own iteration of the Enterprise-D, always referring to “the Enterprise” as such, and the primary starship featured on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is “the Defiant.”