How Many Different Star Trek Chronologies are There?

[Mytran]

Perhaps because I've mentioned it before?

OK, I'll show myself and my big head out.

But seriously, I'd be interested if this theory has popped up anywhere else

 

[BillJ]

Maybe Data graduated in a class of 78 students and simply misunderstood the nature of the phrase?

I dislike this, because it makes us take a common notion and turn it into something very rarely, if ever, used.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I don't understand why people try to shoehorn every little glitch, continuity error, or mismatched date into some form of canon. The people writing the scripts don't have this eidetic-memory of Trek chronologies. If Data said in one episode that he graduated in the 'Class of '78' and then later says it's the 2360's, that's just a mismatch between two writers writing for a TV show. You don't have to do mental gymnastics somehow trying to make it all fit together.

 

[BillJ]

You don't have to do mental gymnastics somehow trying to make it all fit together.

Sometimes it can be a good mental exercise, sometimes it is just too tough to reconcile. Though I don't mind people being creative and trying to make it fit together.

 

[Mytran]

I dislike this, because it makes us take a common notion and turn it into something very rarely, if ever, used.

My idea is that it was a mistake unique to Data which he later corrected, once he'd spent more time among decent crewmates and understood their manners of speech better

In reality of course, it is a relic of the ?FASA Trek chronology which had TNG take place in the early 24th century

 

[JonnyQuest037]

But seriously, I'd be interested if this theory has popped up anywhere else

I honestly don't remember where I first read it at this point. It could've been a BBS post, it could've been on Ex Astris Scientia, or it could've been somewhere else.

I don't understand why people try to shoehorn every little glitch, continuity error, or mismatched date into some form of canon. The people writing the scripts don't have this eidetic-memory of Trek chronologies. If Data said in one episode that he graduated in the 'Class of '78' and then later says it's the 2360's, that's just a mismatch between two writers writing for a TV show. You don't have to do mental gymnastics somehow trying to make it all fit together.

...Are you sure you're on the right site?

Sometimes it can be a good mental exercise, sometimes it is just too tough to reconcile. Though I don't mind people being creative and trying to make it fit together.

Yeah. I personally enjoy making chronologies. It's a fun exercise in logic, deductive reasoning, and creativity. It also helps me see connections I might not have seen otherwise.

 

[Jedi Marso]

I enjoy making timelines too, but I generally don't try to resolve discrepancies- I just cherry pick the stuff I want for my Starlord-awesome head-canon!!

 

[Kor]

The subject is in the title. How many different Star Trek chronologies are there?

Too many.

Kor