Birthdays of the Voyager crew-a suggestion

[kirkfan]

Tuvok: Born 2 August 2264.

Would you base Tuvok's annual birthday celebration upon a Earth year, or a Vulcan year? If (hypothedically) a Vulcan years was thirteen Earth months long, this year's celebration would be in mid June, while next year's would be in mid July.

This would apply to Kes, Neelix and all the other non-Humans aboard the ship.

Good question because I would find it a bit weird if I was living on Vulcan and they would be celebrating my birthday after Vulcan years.

However, in this case, I have to base those birthdays upon Earth years since there is no information about the length of a Vulcan year, an Ocampa year or the year of Talax.

Since Ocampa is the fifth planet in their system, the planet would probably have a longer orbit around the sun than Earth has, maybe two years like Mars.

Then we have to consider the size of the sun, the orbit and such things too.

One can always imagine Ocampa having a ten-year orbit around its sun. That would be a way to hget rid of the 9 year lifespan rubbish.

Vulcan is obviously the second planet in the system, according to Memory Beta. How that affects the rotation of the planet is unknown and there are a lot of contradictions to be found here.

As for Talax, not much information available.

There's the UT effect. Anytime an alien gives a distance, a weight or a time, it's always in the units of the metric system. You have to assume that when Kes says she's one year old, she's talking in earth's years. To think that my dog will likely live longer than an Occampa...

 

[Lynx]

^^
That's one of my objections to the "nine-year lifespan" thing. A species that short-lived could never develope into more than primates. Or dogs.

 

[kirkfan]

^^
That's one of my objections to the "nine-year lifespan" thing. A species that short-lived could never develope into more than primates. Or dogs.

Unless they have a super duper intellect.

 

[Lynx]

Ooops, sorry! Wrong thread. I should have posted in the "Create a new Voyager character" thread.

 

[Lance]

Janeway is the most complicated in this project because there are a lot of condtradictions here and there. Backing her year of birth with three years to 2332 (which would make her 39 in 2371) would make her three years older than Riker who she met during her first year at Starfleet Academy and that was obviously not the fact. So for now, I'll stick to the original suggestion.

Personally, I tend to disregard the idea that Kathy met Riker at the academy, mostly because there's no hint of that kind of recognition between them when they meet in "Deathwish".

 

[Lynx]

Janeway is the most complicated in this project because there are a lot of condtradictions here and there. Backing her year of birth with three years to 2332 (which would make her 39 in 2371) would make her three years older than Riker who she met during her first year at Starfleet Academy and that was obviously not the fact. So for now, I'll stick to the original suggestion.

Personally, I tend to disregard the idea that Kathy met Riker at the academy, mostly because there's no hint of that kind of recognition between them when they meet in "Deathwish".

I know, but........

Maybe they were trying to keep a military Stafleet pose in front of Q, Newton and the Woodstock festival guy?