What!? No. That was never anyone's intention. Just accept that there are some occasional inconsistencies.
Neither of us was a staff writer on
Star Trek or any other television series in that era. So none of us has any personal knowledge of the intentions of any television writers of that era. We can only deduce their intentions from what they wrote.
Maverick was made from 1957 to 1962. My thread "Some Maverick Chronology"
https://moviechat.org/tt0050037/Maverick/5c943dd3be89fc07f659a340/Some-Maverick-Chronology
Shows that
Maverick episodes do not always happen in chronological order.
My thread "The Travelling Salesman Problem"
https://moviechat.org/tt0050037/Maverick/5ca5301fe31e89655fc51074/The-Traveling-Salesman-Problem
Asks whether the Mavericks could travel to all the places in the west (and some outside the west) that they traveled to in various episodes during a span of years short enough for their appearance to not age much more than it did.
As I say: "But if all the Maverick episodes happen one after another in the same alternate universe there might not be enough time for each Maverick to travel his total travel distance while aging few enough years to be consistent with his appearance in the show."
So either the producers and head writers of
Maverick indended for each and every episodes, except for a few which were clearly sequels to others, to be a standalone story, something which might happen to one of the brothers and thus does happen to him in one alternate universe out of millions, or else they intended that all the episodes happen one after another in one single alternate universe, but failed to actually create a series in which the episodes actually do happen one after the other in the same alternate universe.
And it seems to me that it doesn't matter what type of show the creators intended to be, it only matters what type of series they succeeded in creating. Since it seems impossible for all episodes to happen one after the other in one single alternate universes, it seems to me that we should consider
Maverick to happen in many different alternate universes.
In my post "Chronology of Tales of Wells Fargo"
https://moviechat.org/tt0050066/Tal...376a618be4/Chronology-of-Tales-of-Wells-Fargo
I demonstrate that
Tales of Wells Fargo (1957-1962) episodes were not broadcast in fictional chronological order if events happen when they were possible in real history. Some episodes happen years or decades earlier than episodes from previous seasons.
Stories of the Century (1954-55) is a similar series, except that all of the outlaws railroad detective Matt Clark fought were famous outlaws.
in my post:
https://moviechat.org/tt0046647/Sto...6a618c8b/Chronology-of-Stories-of-the-Century
I note that detective Matt Clark's crime fighting career seems to span six decades, and that he seems to hop years or decades forward or backwards in time between episodes.
Have Gun- Will Travel (1957-1963) was one of the best shows of its era. I read somewhere that there is some inconsistency in its chronology, that Custer's Last Stand (June 25, 1876) was mentioned in one episode and that Custer was mentioned as alive in a later episode. If so, that would indicate that episodes do not necessarily happen in the order that they were filmed or broadcast.
So some television shows in the 1950s and 1960s did not didn't always make or broadcast their episodes in the order of their fictional dates, but instead sometimes jumped forward or backwards in time between episodes. If the creators of TOS came from backgrounds in making television shows in the 1950s and 1960s, they might either be fine with making episodes out of their fictional order, or else want to make episodes in fictional order but be really bad at doing so.
So one common assumption that many people make about
Star Trek in general, and TOS in particular, that episodes were made and/or broadcast, in fictional order, is rather suspect, since there are examples of television shows where episodes were made and/or broadcast out of fictional order.
And it seems to me that the assumptions that the creators of TOS intended all the episodes to happen in some order in the same alternate universe, and the assumption that the creators of TOS succeeded in making a series where it is possible for all of the episodes to happen in some order in the same alternate universes, are also quite suspect.
There is considerable evidence that the creators
Star Trek in general, and TOS in particular, failed to create a fictional universe where the episodes all happen in the same alternate universe, whether or not they intended and tried to do so. In my opinion, it is impossible for all TOS episodes to happen in the same alternate universe, and therefore any desire or intention that the creators may have had to that effect is irrelevant.
