Fucking grow up and get over it.
AD versus Common Era
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Then fucking think about the issue instead of just sticking your head in the sand and pretending it isn't there.
Utter nonsense.
More like utter denial, in your case.
A logical origin date for calendars would seem to be the unification of Earth, at least for humans. What more staggeringly important date can there be?
What exactly am I denying?
Because I don't agree with your viewpoint? That's tough. That's life. Not everyone is going to agree with you, and not everyone has to.
Assuming the Jellyfish could have survived such a trip, which is by no means certain. It is fast and maneuverable, but not invulnerable. Wasn't it fairly easy for the Narada to shoot it down?
Man, by the time I get to the end of the thread, people have flamed out.
Now I don't have the whimsy to do the research so I can rewrite the Mother's Day proclamation as a Captain Picard Day proclamation.
Oh well. Back to work.
Now I don't have the whimsy to do the research so I can rewrite the Mother's Day proclamation as a Captain Picard Day proclamation.
Oh well. Back to work.
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Take it to PM if you want to argue about it further, but don't derail this thread anymore.
First contact.
^ Hey now, don't go ape over this...
Wait, didn't the stardate system itself have a year zero when it reset in the early 24th century? I don't have the Star Trek Chronology with me, but if someone can look through it they specify the Gregorian year of the reset.
Every so often the Federation resets the stardate system to reflect changes in the galactic core that also point to standard candles and interstellar wind patterns. When you figure in the red shift, blue shift, and the time shift of all the quadrants, it really makes sense in regards to the Hobus event...not to mention the anti-time anomaly in the Devron system that completely might have not maybe happened. Either that, or it has something to do with arbitrary fiat of someone in the Federation Council.
It appears to be around 2323...
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^As I recall, it happens to fall on the exact year of Picard's admission into the Academy. Just something interesting.
On the main topic: Since stardates are used in the Trek universe, the debate over AD vs. CE is basically moot.
Still...whenever references to "years" are made, it appears that the Gregorian calender is being used--doubtless, out of tradition.
The question, however, is why parts of the Gregorian tradition should be acknowledged, and others abandoned. Despite the now acknowledged innaccuracy of the dating of the appropriate origins of the calander, the traditions of the calender are as they are.
On the main topic: Since stardates are used in the Trek universe, the debate over AD vs. CE is basically moot.
Still...whenever references to "years" are made, it appears that the Gregorian calender is being used--doubtless, out of tradition.
The question, however, is why parts of the Gregorian tradition should be acknowledged, and others abandoned. Despite the now acknowledged innaccuracy of the dating of the appropriate origins of the calander, the traditions of the calender are as they are.
Why not the first official telegraph transmission? On May 24, 1844, the message “WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT” was sent by Morse telegraph from Washington to Baltimore. At that moment, the age of instantaneous long-distance communication began — a paradigm shift no less significant than the discovery of fire-making or the invention of the wheel.
Then the calendar ought to begin on April 14, 1932.
If the first sustained atomic chain reaction is the benchmark, the starting date should be December 2, 1942.
Yeah, right. Like that’s ever going to happen.
You actually might have hit the nail on the head there. Maybe some aspects could be observed merely out of a long-practiced cultural tradition, even if the tradition itself is historically inaccurate.Rush Limborg;4951810On the main topic: Since stardates are used in the [I said:
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