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Game Guess the Stardate!

F. King Daniel

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Simple: Guess the first Stardate to appear in Star Trek: Discovery and the closest wins a no-prize!

I'm going to guess... 953.02. Using the three-digit system from the Pike-era Early Voyages comics.
 
"Supplemental."

They should always use "Supplemental". Instead of trying to calculate the time between events fans will argue for years about the starting point of the series. :D
 
No stardate. No captain's log at all. It's a narrative crutch of Star Trek that they should drop for awhile.
 
Considering Bryan Fuller wrote the pilot script, it'll probably be something like 3110.31 ;)
 
Considering Bryan Fuller wrote the pilot script, it'll probably be something like 3110.31 ;)
Episode 1 - 3110.31
Episode 2 - 3110.3110
Episode 3 - 3110.311031
Episode 4 - 3110.31103110
Episode 5 - 3110.31103110
You see were this is going. The series is going to cover a very small time frame :D
 
Since Robau knew what stardates were, and used one based on the Gregorian calendar, I suppose it would have to be either that system, or one that features figures lower than those used in TOS, so the aforementioned 3-digit system seems to make sense.

I dislike the Gregorian-based stardate system for the simple reason that it's extremely Earth-biased in a Federation society that's supposed to embrace other worlds. On my initial viewing of the 2009 film, it was actually the thing that stuck out the most to me. One reason I like the stardates is that they provide something universal to consolidate the calendars of countless worlds.

But while I don't like Gregorian-based stardates, I do think I prefer ignoring Robau's knowledge of stardates and using the Earth dates as ENT did, showing an early Federation system that perhaps either sectioned off Earth dates for Starfleet, or for ships captained by Earth natives, or some such other reason. It would be easier than coming up with a fourth or fifth system of stardates (after the 4-digit/1000 units a year in TOS, 4-digit/100 units a year in the TOS movies, 5-digit/1000 units a year from the TNG era, and the 4-digit, day-based decimal/Gregorian-centric system of the Kelvin timeline).

Whatever they do, if they have logs, I hope they actually say the date instead of saying "supplemental." "Supplemental," is fine if there's more than one log in a mission, but the initial entry should state the date.
 
In my mind the Stardate system would make sense as a system put in place with the founding of the Federation.
Though that would mean that the Stardates should be way higher in TOS than they were... unless Kirk abbreviated them like we don't mention the century we are in all the time when naming a date.
So where would that put Discovery? Into 2256? Birth of the Federation was in 2161.
Going with the 1000 units of the Stardate system for one year, that would but DIscovery in 95,000. If the stardate gets abbreviated, that would put it into the 5000 range. If it gets abbreviated even more that would be the equivalent of only months, weeks and days with the year assumed to be known in any log entry.
Why the date needs to be mentioned verbally in a log is anyone's guess. Really it should be auto-tagged with the correct date by the computer anyway, complete with the galactic coordinates the ship is currently at.
So mentioning the date happens more out of tradition anyway and saying Stardate 625.52 is almost like saying 1st, June in a diary.
 
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