Spoilers Canon, Continuity, and Pike's Accident
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So we have a Spock 2 from the Animated Series running around right? Pike is cured after the Menagerie and returns to Starfleet. He then grabs Spock 2 and shrinks him back to normal size and they get the 'Strange New Worlds' gang back together minus Uhura. The show then continues on past TOS in a new ship as long as Spock 2 is re-enlarged at some point and killed to line up with Lower Decks. 
We're still some years in the timeline before Spock Two. About ten, according to Memory Alpha.
My premise is how to continue Strange New Worlds into the TOS movie period. Obviously a time jump would be involved skipping all of TOS and most of TAS.
Alternatively, simply avoiding any mention of the Gregorian year and continuing with the randomized stardates would allow many stories to fit into the space between SNW’s “now” and TOS. The cast can easily play its current “age” for another five years (no early teens) and surely another 40-50 stories can be fit into the roughly 2500 days between “now” and TOS.
How official are Gregorian dates, really? The only on-screen mention I can think of off the top of my head is Bones's Romulan ale 'joke' in WOK, which I never got, anyway, because I thought it was weird to have a human date on an alien spirit.
Didn’t Enterprise use them?
Yeah. So did Berman shows. I was speaking specifically to TOS. Sorry, I should've clarified.
TOS usually avoided dates, keeping things vague. If only others had done the same. But the minutia militia took over.
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Yeah. Like, the whole point of having their own chronology in the first place is it allowed for creative license.
Also, can you imagine the minutia militia at a reenactment? Like they'd be standing around fussing over the wrong thread one guys used to sew the buttons on his coat while all ladies have to suffer the sweltering July heat in those hot-ass gowns.
Also, can you imagine the minutia militia at a reenactment? Like they'd be standing around fussing over the wrong thread one guys used to sew the buttons on his coat while all ladies have to suffer the sweltering July heat in those hot-ass gowns.
TOS was all over the place. I think the latest they ever got was Squire of Gothos where it could have been 30th century.
The ads for The Motion Picture said "A 23rd Century Odyssey Now!" The first definitive century we ever got was The Wrath of Khan which swiped from Picard and said "In the 23rd century..."
The first hard year that we ever got was at the end of TNG's first season when Data said they were in 2364.
Yes, there was Wrath of Khan's Romulan ale vintage of 2283 and Data graduated class of '78 but neither of those were tied to anything specific.
The ads for The Motion Picture said "A 23rd Century Odyssey Now!" The first definitive century we ever got was The Wrath of Khan which swiped from Picard and said "In the 23rd century..."
The first hard year that we ever got was at the end of TNG's first season when Data said they were in 2364.
Yes, there was Wrath of Khan's Romulan ale vintage of 2283 and Data graduated class of '78 but neither of those were tied to anything specific.
"Time is an illusion; stardates doubly so."
The military reenactment guys can get really detail obsessed, wouldn't put the thread thing past some of them. As for the dresses, its my understanding that when worn correctly historic dresses can be surprisingly comfortable/temperature appropriate. Hollywood writers, actresses, and costume designers aren't a good sample for judging this sort of thing.
However, I have no first hand experience about that.
No doubt it was packaged/labeled for the export market. Even if the Federation didn't allow the stuff to be imported, the producers of the product certainly recognized the demand. Or whoever was distributing it via the "border ships" was putting their own labels on it for the target market.
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