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Can someone explain about Star dates.  When was day one and is each day one day in real life (so to speak    ie. star date 42332 is thursday and 42333 is friday?? ) it seems that in STV the star dates are moving to fast to cover the time period for each one to be one day.  Or am I in la la land?? Ok don't answer that last one  lol 

Yes... to both. !

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steelclaw32
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 5.

Each writer made up their own date, although, from TNG on, they were usually given the first two numbers of the 5 digit date.  In your example, they were given the numbers 4 and 2 to start with.  They could then pick the other 3 numbers from a range of numbers.

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I think in the old mythos Mr. R stated it was something to do with the Calendar in reality but since TNG it was explained like this lets say the statdate was 41234.5 the 4 indicated the century, the one was the season, the 234 day of the year and the point.5 indicated time of day.  i think this was sted in one of the TNG info books.  Now I do now know if this carried over to DS9 or Voyager but I would think probably up to a certain point.  As for Enterprise did they ever use Stardate?

 

 

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AKalel:

I think in the old mythos Mr. R stated it was something to do with the Calendar in reality but since TNG it was explained like this lets say the statdate was 41234.5 the 4 indicated the century, the one was the season, the 234 day of the year and the point.5 indicated time of day.  i think this was sted in one of the TNG info books.  Now I do now know if this carried over to DS9 or Voyager but I would think probably up to a certain point.  As for Enterprise did they ever use Stardate?

I think that was the way it was done from TNG on.  In Enterprise they didn't have stardates, presumably because the Humans had no use for it until they started going out into space :P  In Enterprise they were still using the same calendar format that we use today.

 

 

Unix,

 You are misunderstanding I am saying I do not know if the way they explained stardates in ST-TNG were the same for Voyager & DS9 plus the latter part of TNG.  I do find it interesting if you do a list of TNG episodes based on airdates versus the order you get if you do by stardate.

 

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This dating still does  not make sence to me.

Voyager is a 7 years series.  the star date of the first episode is 48315.6     the star date of the last episode of the first year was 48846.5

the star date of the first episode of the last season is 54014.4 and the star date of the last episode in season seven was 54973.4

if you take one day for each star day it is a total of 6658 days  that is roughly equal to 18.24 years

as for the first number being the century the first season (I think) was 2372 so seven years would not account for it going to five.  and the second number being the season number the first season the second number is an 8 and in the last it is a 4 and as for the last three numbers many of them are in the 400's 500's 600's 700's 800's 900's .

I think that they just made them up and I do not know why they tried to make everything as real as possible.  they made up languages insted of the actors just making up blabber.  they explain everything with the science as best as possible but something as simple like with the dates they messup. 

I have seen interview after interview all of them saying that the fans of TREK are intelligent so they wanted to make the best show possible. So after going to all of that trouble do they not think that we can count.

 Or is it possible that after Rodenberry died that mistakes started to happen.

I do not think that the bag things or mistakes satarted to happen after Gene passed away I think it was a combo of to many cooks plus things that were done when Gene was alive did not occur at all or as much as they once were.

 

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I don't know why it is so hard for people to realize that they just made the dates up and didn't really care if they made sense.

 Perhaps, the dates have to do with relativity and as a result can be different depending on what part of the galaxy you happen to be in?

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The previous posters are correct. They are meaningless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardate

I'd always heard that the ORIGINAL idea was for the dates, although made up, to be chronological from episode to episode (and I'm talking about the classic series, here,) but the network ended up airing the episodes out of production order, so Roddenberry made up the explanation that stardates varied depending on which part of the galaxy one was in (as explained in the Wikipedia article.)

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