Subtitle (titling) "Mario Kart" series; and "", the second in the "Star Trek" series. Subtitle (titling) In books and other works, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title. As an example, Mary Shelley gave her most famous novel the title "Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus"; by using the subtitle "the Modern Prometheus", she references the Greek Titan as a hint of the novel's themes. In English, subtitles were traditionally denoted and separated from the title proper by the conjunction "or", perhaps hinting at their function as an alternate title. A more modern usage is to simply separate the subtitle by punctuation,
USS Prometheus (AR-3) from San Francisco to Tulagi, and after a month’s stay there, where she catered primarily to escort carriers, she went to Florida Island and then in September to Manus. She received orders on 25 September to proceed to Kossol Passage, Palau Islands where she came under enemy fire for the first time from a Japanese midget sub. She opened fire with her 3"/50 caliber deck gun and sunk the sub. She and her crew suffered no damage. "Prometheus" departed Kossol on 21 January 1945 and moved to the now famous Ulithi anchorage to help ready the Fleet for the Iwo