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Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x07 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series_episodes <-- they're a bit erratic but I do see a pattern. It suggests they're running parallel to TOS now.
From your link:
The progression of stardates in your script should remain constant but don't worry about whether or not there is a progression from other scripts. Stardates are a mathematical formula which varies depending on location in the galaxy, velocity of travel, and other factors, can vary widely from episode to episode.
So the stardates on the Discovery could be different than on the Enterprise and other ships.
 
Didn't TAS have an episode with Stardate 500 or something? It's always been a bit inconsistent.

"The Magicks of Megas-Tu" was set around stardate 1254, which would place it before "WNMHGB" if we take the progression of stardates literally. Unfortunately for continuity the episode is set in 2269 or 2270.
 
This was absolute shit. It ruined one of my favorite types of gimmick story (the groundhog day scenario), and it made Harry Mudd into a supreme being capable of shit no one could do in a story with an even slightly competent writer (like time loop tech and taking control of a federation starship all by himself). Unless they reveal that Harry Mudd is the half brother of Q this whole episode was bullshit. This was A Night in Sickbay or Threshold levels of bad, absolute crap tier Trek.
 
"The Magicks of Megas-Tu" was set around stardate 1254, which would place it before "WNMHGB" if we take the progression of stardates literally. Unfortunately for continuity the episode is set in 2269 or 2270.
They also have an episode (Practical Joker) that should take place during the first season based on the stardate of 3183.3 It's also the episode with the "holodeck".
 
And then stardates slow to a virtual crawl in the twelve years between TMP and TWOK, with the last recorded stardate in the first movie being 7414.1 and the opening stardate for the second movie being set at 8130.3.
 
Personally, I would have just given "The Vulcan Hello" a stardate in the (3)3000 range to line it up with TNG and let someone else figure out how TOS fits in.

I didn't know Harry Mudd is the type of guy to casually murder people. I didn't get that impression from TOS. A thief and annoyance but not a murderer

He was willing to let the Enterprise crash into a planet because they were in the way of his human trafficking plan, but maybe in the intervening years he got some therapy and calmed down a little.
 
This was absolute shit. It ruined one of my favorite types of gimmick story (the groundhog day scenario), and it made Harry Mudd into a supreme being capable of shit no one could do in a story with an even slightly competent writer (like time loop tech and taking control of a federation starship all by himself). Unless they reveal that Harry Mudd is the half brother of Q this whole episode was bullshit. This was A Night in Sickbay or Threshold levels of bad, absolute crap tier Trek.
You're giving "A Night in Sickbay" a bad name. I rather liked that episode.
 
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