Uhura's memory wipe

[Albertese]

....

Okay, cool. Thanks for explaining further. As I'm sure you know, they explained in the TOS Writer's Guide that a Stardate like 1000.5 would generally fall around noon of that day.

....

I'm aware, but have dismissed it. That would imply that a stardate (that is, the period elapsed from 1000.0 to 1001.0) is a 24 hour day. Let's examine that. If our earliest stardate is 1312 [WNMHGB] and our latest stardate is 5943 ["All Our Yesterdays] then that is a whopping 4,631 days! Or, in other words, a five year mission taking twelve years and eight months. Divide that by three and you get a period that fits comfortably in the five year window.

And to the OP, I'm sorry we took your thread about Uhura's memory wipe and hijacked it into a lengthy dissertation on the nature of stardates. We didn't mean to, but it was a fun ride!

--Alex

 

[MAGolding]

I have Christmas on ~Stardate 2623.0 (based on Thanksgiving on ~Stardate 1535 in Charlie X), and January 1 on ~ Stardate 2642. The close Stardates for those three episodes I chalk up to Kirk recording the mission logs back-to-back for WALGMO and MIRI after their events, and right before DOTM. All occur in January with WALGMO starting ~2664, MIRI starting ~2682 and ending ~2702 (7 days pass in the episode), and DOTM starting as given in the log on 2715.1. YMMV .

Christmas is always on December 25, but Thansksgiving in the USA is always the fourth Thursday in November, and thus on November 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, or 28. Thus there are 27 to 33 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas depending on the year. So one would have to know, instead of assume, the year to calculate the stardate of Christmas from the stardate of Thanksgiving.

 

[Henoch]

Christmas is always on December 25, but Thansksgiving in the USA is always the fourth Thursday in November, and thus on November 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, or 28. Thus there are 27 to 33 days between Thanksgiving and Christmas depending on the year. So one would have to know, instead of assume, the year to calculate the stardate of Christmas from the stardate of Thanksgiving.

Charlie X (Thanksgiving 11/23/2265)

I'm also sorry hijacking the thread...I'm good to join a new one on the Stardate topic.

 

[johnnybear]

Apparently the TNG stardates are very haphazard in the first season and tend to contradict themselves or so I've read! The second season has only one or two episodes that need moving around where as the rest are virtually all in order! The same goes for DS9 too I believe! So the only other way to watch the spin-offs is in their own production order!
JB

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Apparently the TNG stardates are very haphazard in the first season and tend to contradict themselves or so I've read!

Yeah. if you go by strict Stardate order in TNG, Tasha Yar is alive in "Arsenal of Freedom" after she died in "Skin of Evil." So, yeah, bit of a continuity glitch there.

 

[johnnybear]

And I believe the events of the Stargazer returning during The Battle are referenced in a later episode, Coming of Age, with a much earlier stardate!!!
JB