Star Trek Chronology

[trampledamage]

Both work in that sense, interestingly enough; trolling is trawling with a baited line instead of a net. (That's actually one of the potential origins for the getting-people-mad-on-the-internet sense, in fact. )

Thank you for this! I quite often see people use "trolling" in articles where I would use "trawling" and I knew they couldn't all just be mistaking their words, it's a relief to know that "trolling" is also a fishing term.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

It would be a logical companion for a boxed set someday.

I'm surprised they never made the encyclo a computer program, like Encyclopedia Britannica used to be on CD ROM. In keeping with the tech nature of Trek.

 

[Christopher]

I'm surprised they never made the encyclo a computer program, like Encyclopedia Britannica used to be on CD ROM. In keeping with the tech nature of Trek.

They did. There were several CD-ROM editions of the STE, originally called the Omnipedia and later just the Encyclopedia. I still have a set of CD-ROMs including the 1999 edition of the STE, the TNG and DS9 Companion CD-ROMs (which were not the text of the books but episode guides and collections of all the scripts), and the Borg computer game (which came with the others but which I never played all the way through). I'm not even sure if they could work with Windows 7, though.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Did the disc look like a memory tape?

 

[Admiral Rex]

The last published chronology stated that Kirk's original five-year mission ended in 2269. After that last publication, Icheb stated in the Voyager episode "Q2" that the five-year mission ended in 2270. So I would assume this date would be updated and possibly the start date of the five-year mission.

 

[ryan123450]

Yes there are several small details like that which I look forward to seeing. Another is the date of the last several episodes of Voyager. There's the debate about 2377 vs. 2378. I go for 2377 but last I noticed Memory Alpha goes 2378. I look forward to it being a bit more "settled".

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

And the date of the motion picture, not just a nebulous 2270s.

 

[ryan123450]

If they go with anything but 2273, I'm just going to ignore it anyway.

 

[David cgc]

I'm actually interested in what time of year TMP takes place in more than the year itself.

 

[ryan123450]

That seems more like a detail they would only delve into in the Chronology rather than the Encyclopedia.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

And the date of the motion picture, not just a nebulous 2270s.

If they go with anything but 2273, I'm just going to ignore it anyway.

Since they've already established that the 5YM ended in 2270 and put a gap of 2 1/2 years between TOS and the first movie, I don't see how TMP could be anything but 2273.

I'm actually interested in what time of year TMP takes place in more than the year itself.

Any particular reason for that?

 

[David cgc]

Any particular reason for that?

Mostly just stubbornness. I was making notes for a TMP... I guess fan-edit would be the word? Basically taking the DE, subbing in HD footage where available, and redoing the 2001-era CG shots. There were a few additional tweaks I wanted to make, and one of them was replacing the shot of V'Ger's "orbiting devices" with one seeing V'Ger and the weapons from the ground in San Francisco, so I wanted to know what the light would be like. Checking my notes, I worked out that V'Ger arrived at Earth at roughly 9:30 in the morning, Pacific time (or rather, 0930 hours shipboard, which is probably synced to San Francisco), which is far enough after dawn in both winter and summer that it doesn't really matter what time of year it is, but it did raise the question, and I'm still a little curious. Or stubborn.

I could also end up doing the shot at dawn anyway. The linchpin of my timeline is the assumption that the Enterprise clock is set to San Francisco time, but if I throw that out, it opens up an eight-hour margin for everything after Kirk's first meeting with Decker, since we don't know how long it was between Kirk leaving San Francisco in the late afternoon and the 4:00 am briefing where he said V'Ger was 53 hours from Earth.

 

[ryan123450]

Sounds like acool project. For what it's worth, I think the books place TMP in September.

 

[Christopher]

For what it's worth, I think the books place TMP in September.

I have TMP ending on September 29 in my own chronology, though I'm not sure why I chose that date. Probably based on the novelization's line that it had been 2.8 years since Spock had returned to Vulcan, and wanting the end of the 5YM to be late in 2270.

 

[ryan123450]

I also prefer the 5YM to end late in 2270, and I go with the date Christopher has point forward, for consistancies sake.

 

[David cgc]

9/29/73 works for me. This probably isn't a thing that'll leave the "research" phase until I get a new computer, at least, but it's at a decently high spot on my list of potential future hobby-projects. You'll probably see it down in Trek Art if I start working on it in ernest.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Plus, we can see things happening at the same time and draw conclusions based on their coinciding.

 

[Idran]

Plus, we can see things happening at the same time and draw conclusions based on their coinciding.

That's been one of the entertaining parts of doing my own timeline as I flesh out my dating for DS9 and Voyager, yeah.

 

[ryan123450]

Im just beginning to really dig deep on the 24th century era chronology myself.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I have TMP ending on September 29 in my own chronology, though I'm not sure why I chose that date.

Hmm... would it be too early to celebrate V'Ger Ascendance Day in a couple of weeks, 257 years before the fact? I could really use another holiday.