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17 01 2018, Enterprise day!
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I can't believe this hasn't become a thing to be honest, every year I celebrate 17/01 as "Star Trek day". Is there some relevance to 2018 that I'm missing?
Everyone does not use day month.
I don't know of a spedial connection for 2018, just thought that it's 17th of January.
Yeah, unless January gets 701 days, this won't work for us backwards Americans.
This made me think of this picture...
We could always celebrate it on the first day of the seventeenth month instead.Yeah, unless January gets 701 days, this won't work for us backwards Americans.
Since the only logical way is year-month-day, we missed out on Enterprise Day three centuries ago.
You mean 17th of Jan in the year 1701?
Quindecember 1, 2018.Seventeeth month of...?
ArcherNX01 said:
To me "Star Trek Day" will be the anniversary of the first episode broadcast in the USA on September 8, 1966.
You don't remember?
"Space Seed"
The choice of 2018 for space travel becoming faster, possibly even the beginning of faster than light travel, is obviously a homage to James Blish's They Shall Have Stars also known as Year 2018! (1956), part of his Cities in Flight series.
It's a sad thing to think that 62 years have passed with no development of immortality drugs, no antigravity, and no faster than light drive. Sigh.
To me "Star Trek Day" will be the anniversary of the first episode broadcast in the USA on September 8, 1966.
I don't know of a spedial connection for 2018, just thought that it's 17th of January.
This made me think of this picture...
You don't remember?
"Space Seed"
The choice of 2018 for space travel becoming faster, possibly even the beginning of faster than light travel, is obviously a homage to James Blish's They Shall Have Stars also known as Year 2018! (1956), part of his Cities in Flight series.
It's a sad thing to think that 62 years have passed with no development of immortality drugs, no antigravity, and no faster than light drive. Sigh.
May the 4th be with you. 
I seem to recall Paramount chose 17/01/01 to release the Director's Cut of The Motion Picture on DVD.
My vote goes to September the 8th, as the premiere date. That month needs all the help it can get.
I seem to recall Paramount chose 17/01/01 to release the Director's Cut of The Motion Picture on DVD.
My vote goes to September the 8th, as the premiere date. That month needs all the help it can get.
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I've always (since 1996) celebrated April 5th (4/5/2063) as First Contact Day and a celebration of all things Trek.
True,
however just like the imperial system the US is one of the few countries to use the MDY format.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
As the majority of the population of the planet uses DMY that's what most people will see when a date is written numerically i.e. 17-01-18 will be seen as the 17th of Janurary 2018.
QFT
We could always celebrate it on the first day of the seventeenth month instead.
That should work out, everyone's heard of a 24-month calendar, right?
That should work out, everyone's heard of a 24-month calendar, right?
If a month is about 2 weeks instead of 4, it will work.
Americans can have Discovery day 10/31.
Shouldn't the question be, on what planet can one celebrate Enterprise Day? (If I am not mistaken, the Bajoran year is long enough.)If a month is about 2 weeks instead of 4, it will work.
I don't know of a spedial connection for 2018, just thought that it's 17th of January.
This made me think of this picture...
As an American, I must say the European Calendar makes far more sense.
Of course, the calendar format that makes the absolute most sense is Year/Month/Day. When filing on a computer, the numbers will always proceed in order.
I also like the Holocene Calendar where it's the year 12,018. Add 10,000 years to the Gregorian Calendar and then in all of recorded history, the dates in Human Civilization move upward. No BC and AD, counting down and then up again.
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