Spoilers When is Academy Set?

[Detached Nacelle]

Academy's setting can be interpreted in several ways and so far the year has not been said out loud so we have nothing super duper concrete. We know it starts in autumn of one year and crosses into the next so the show can't be set all in one year but there are several candidates for your head scratching consideration.

 

[tenmei]

I think path of least resistance is B. Someone said the stardates in Disco don't account for the one year time jump in Season 3 and the SFA ones are therefore out by a year, 92/93 rather than 91/92.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

I think path of least resistance is B. Someone said the stardates in Disco don't account for the one year time jump in Season 3 and the SFA ones are therefore out by a year, 92/93 rather than 91/92.

They don't line up but then they kept the convention of 1000 dates a year going afterwards. We've ignored worse though, we are very good at that.

 

[Turtletrekker]

For the purposes of a project I'm currently working on, I'm going with 3195/96.

 

[Manticore]

Until we get a specific year stated on-screen, I'm going to treat off-screen material as the go. Spoken Dialogue > VFX > Off-screen confirmation > Background details > Minutiae such as stardates in my ranking of how true something is.

 

[Tuskin38]

DSC Season 4 was 3190, so it would be 3193-94 if we're going 3 years after the first class seen in Discovery.

Edit: Wait I math'd wrong, the poll is right

 

[Ceridwen]

It's 2195, the Burn warped time but nobody realizes it yet, what we've actually been watching is another prequel.

 

[tenmei]

Yes. I am that much of a nerd.


1x01 -

October 19th, 319(1)

1x02 -

October 20th, 319(1) [The Cadets get their room assignments shortly after The Doctor assigns them to care for a single specimen of self-replicating mucus for five days]

October 24th, 319(1) [The Betazoid Delegation arrive, this is within five days of the Cadets receiving their assignments to care the self-replicating mucus (the mucus seems to vanish after this, so have placed this on the fifth day - a Friday)]

October 25th, 319(1) [A banquet is held in honor of the Betazoid delegation]

October 26th, 319(1) [The agreement for Betazoid to join the Federation and Federation HQ to relocate there is brokered]

1x03

November 10th 319(1) to c. November 14th, 319(1) [ Stardate 868858.7, it has been three weeks since 1x01/1x02)

1x04

December 11th, 319(1) [ 868943.8, it's three days into the mission to the Val Nebula)

1x05

January 17th, 319(2) to January 24th, 319(2) [dialogue states that it has been 96 days since 1x01/1x02, episode takes place over a week]

1x06

Late February/Early March, 319(2) ["I haven't been off this ship in six months ..."]

1x07

Late March/Early April [it has been 32 days since Caleb spoke to Tarima]

1x08

May 16th, 319(2) to c. May 29th 319(2) [ Stardate 869372.1, "What took us two centuries to build, you killed in 209 days ..." (the visit to Kasq is on May 17th) and Stardate 869408.67 - it has been several weeks since 1x07 ("The patch the holo-engineers made has been failing for weeks ...")]

1x09

August 13th 319(2) [The 300th Day, most of the events seem to happen on the 14th August though]

 

[Michael]

Yes. I am that much of a nerd.


1x01 -

October 19th, 319(1)

1x02 -

October 20th, 319(1) [The Cadets get their room assignments shortly after The Doctor assigns them to care for a single specimen of self-replicating mucus for five days]

October 24th, 319(1) [The Betazoid Delegation arrive, this is within five days of the Cadets receiving their assignments to care the self-replicating mucus (the mucus seems to vanish after this, so have placed this on the fifth day - a Friday)]

October 25th, 319(1) [A banquet is held in honor of the Betazoid delegation]

October 26th, 319(1) [The agreement for Betazoid to join the Federation and Federation HQ to relocate there is brokered]

1x03

November 10th 319(1) to c. November 14th, 319(1) [ Stardate 868858.7, it has been three weeks since 1x01/1x02)

1x04

December 11th, 319(1) [ 868943.8, it's three days into the mission to the Val Nebula)

1x05

January 17th, 319(2) to January 24th, 319(2) [dialogue states that it has been 96 days since 1x01/1x02, episode takes place over a week]

1x06

Late February/Early March, 319(2) ["I haven't been off this ship in six months ..."]

1x07

Late March/Early April [it has been 32 days since Caleb spoke to Tarima]

1x08

May 16th, 319(2) to c. May 29th 319(2) [ Stardate 869372.1, "What took us two centuries to build, you killed in 209 days ..." (the visit to Kasq is on May 17th) and Stardate 869408.67 - it has been several weeks since 1x07 ("The patch the holo-engineers made has been failing for weeks ...")]

1x09

August 13th 319(2) [The 300th Day, most of the events seem to happen on the 14th August though]

Pretty impressive! I forget, when did they mention a Earth calendar date again to figure out all those dates?

 

[tenmei]

Pretty impressive! I forget, when did they mention a Earth calendar date again to figure out all those dates?

I just used a stardate translator and then just references within the episodes, and a calendar for 3191 and 2 I found online.

 

[Michael]

I just used a stardate translator and then just references within the episodes, and a calendar for 3191 and 2 I found online.

Ah, gotcha. Would have been so neat if they had only mentioned even one of those dates in episode, because then we would have been able to know most of the others.

 

[Tosk]

I just used a stardate translator

Which others have mentioned doesn't really work properly ever since they messed up on Discovery. And 3191 is too early for there to be third-year cadets.

 

[tenmei]

Which others have mentioned doesn't really work properly ever since they messed up on Discovery. And 3191 is too early for there to be third-year cadets.

It works enough for the purpose, which is to see how the events work over twelve months - which is why I've put the years as 319(1) and 319(2).

 

[Detached Nacelle]

3195-3196 is now confirmed as the correct answer meaning Tilly's cadets from Discovery are now out there somewhere as ensigns and she just teaches unnamed third years currently.

 

[GothicPudding]

3195-3196 is now confirmed as the correct answer meaning Tilly's cadets from Discovery are now out there somewhere as ensigns and she just teaches unnamed third years currently.

I assume this is based on the "Class of 3196" in "Rubincon" as part of the credits at the end?

In the US, "Class of XXXX" typically refers to the year of (expected) graduation. Since they are first year cadets, this could imply Season 1 takes place earlier (e.g. 3192-3193).

As someone else noted in the episode thread, the credits graphics aren't consistent, placing the non-cadet characters in the "Class of 3196".

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Vance, Ake, Reno, the Doctor, Lura, Anisha, Nus and both computers would not be in that same class though. And they're also all humans. I'm reasonably confident it is just signifying the school year's end and they were just being cute about it.

 

[Set Harth]

I have no idea!

 

[Jedman67]

It's 2195, the Burn warped time but nobody realizes it yet, what we've actually been watching is another prequel.

It's been a long road...

 

[camdudetenger2018]

well according to the references by starfleet teacher jett when she and the rest of her crew from discovery time traveled to the future it was i think about thousands of years later

which would mean of course star trek starfleet academy is set about after that which would also be set after the aftermath of infamous burn ended when everyone can travel across space again

 

[Ceridwen]

Did the end credits for "Rubincon" indicate that we are now in summer 3196? That's my read on the "Class of 3196" anyway (since it wasn't just the kids included, so I don't think we can interpret that as their graduation year).