They said Kirk hadn't "logged star hours" for 2.5 years.
In any realistic context, there would be zero reason to think the only way to log star hours is to command the Enterprise in a five-year mission of exploration. Or that a Captain would only ever command one ship, and would at least need to make public mention of being unfaithful with another.
There isn't much reason to think time has passed between TMP and TWoK. In both, we see the old man who is bitter about no longer having a shipboard job. In both, he gets his Peter Pan moment at the conclusion, and in both, we have little reason to think it would last. His life is a tragedy where success is defined as failure and vice versa, and the only way out is on a purple magic carpet through space and time. With TMP, we are at liberty to decide how soon Kirk ended up in that jam: right after his TOS/TAS days, or half a decade after, or perhaps a full decade after? All options work, even though the writer intent appears to have been a full decade later (it shows in the "300 years after filming sharp" thinking).
The fun thing here is that, before LDS at least, nobody ever mentions TMP again. May be it never happened, and the TMP uniforms never existed, say. May be it was unremarkable for our heroes and their compatriots, not particularly distinct from the average Earth-threatening calamity or career moment. May be it becomes one of those "goes without saying" moments of history. But the end result is that we get no in-universe relative dating cues, only the absolute ones within the writing of TMP (such as the "over three centuries after 1977" thing) plus the relative minimum estimates for time elapsed after TOS/TAS.
Timo Saloniemi
In any realistic context, there would be zero reason to think the only way to log star hours is to command the Enterprise in a five-year mission of exploration. Or that a Captain would only ever command one ship, and would at least need to make public mention of being unfaithful with another.
There isn't much reason to think time has passed between TMP and TWoK. In both, we see the old man who is bitter about no longer having a shipboard job. In both, he gets his Peter Pan moment at the conclusion, and in both, we have little reason to think it would last. His life is a tragedy where success is defined as failure and vice versa, and the only way out is on a purple magic carpet through space and time. With TMP, we are at liberty to decide how soon Kirk ended up in that jam: right after his TOS/TAS days, or half a decade after, or perhaps a full decade after? All options work, even though the writer intent appears to have been a full decade later (it shows in the "300 years after filming sharp" thinking).
The fun thing here is that, before LDS at least, nobody ever mentions TMP again. May be it never happened, and the TMP uniforms never existed, say. May be it was unremarkable for our heroes and their compatriots, not particularly distinct from the average Earth-threatening calamity or career moment. May be it becomes one of those "goes without saying" moments of history. But the end result is that we get no in-universe relative dating cues, only the absolute ones within the writing of TMP (such as the "over three centuries after 1977" thing) plus the relative minimum estimates for time elapsed after TOS/TAS.
Timo Saloniemi
Don't know what to make of it, but the Captain/Ship goes on 5YM's, and the food storage capacity on the ship is 5 years, too. Sounds like a design plan...
) tens years ago, which makes her about 30 plus or minus during the TAS episode. This puts her birth when McCoy was about 20 years old and if married, his marriage around 19 years old (plus or minus).
