How much time between ST:V and ST:VI?

[Timo]

Both also seem to think that the seasons were years in TOS, meaning "Space Seed" took place towards the very beginning of the 5ym. Yet a stardate of about 3100 out of 5900 allows us to place "Space Seed" something like two years later than per that assumption. The "1000 SD/year" interpretation, valid for most other incarnations of Trek, helps us here.

Indeed, as ST2 is in the 8100 range of stardates, it is then only logical to think that it takes place exactly either 5, 15, 25 or 35 years after "Space Seed" and SD 3100 (the first, "decade" digit is supposedly dropped for brevity). And 15 years is the most logical choice out of those!

Timo Saloniemi

 

[F. King Daniel]

There is also the Star Trek Fandom Chronology by James Dixon at http://phoenixinn.iwarp.com/startrek/files.html that builds on the fandom timeline created by Chuck Graham and Geoffrey Mandel.

ST: TOS "Space Seed" -- 2260

ST: TOS "Miri" 1960+300 years = 2260

ST: TMP -- 2267

ST II: TWOK -- 2287

TMP refit + 20 years = 2287

ST III: TSFS -- 2287

ST IV: TVH -- 2288

ST V: TFF -- 2288

ST: TUC -- 2292

ST: Gen -- 2293

Though this timeline doesn't work with dialogue in VOY "Q2" that established the end of Kirk's five year mission in 2270.

Interesting how both the Okuda Timeline and the Graham/Mandel/Dixon Timeline ignore the 15 year figure between "Space Seed" and TWOK.

It's also contradicted by the Okuda Chronology dates in STXI.

Trek's been retconned and rewritten so often, it's far easier to fit the old with the new than Dixon's attempt to fit the new with the old. See his treatment of Enterprise ("Wrong-wrong-wrong!!")in his last release.

 

[Herbert1]

It's also contradicted by the Okuda Chronology dates in STXI.

Trek's been retconned and rewritten so often, it's far easier to fit the old with the new than Dixon's attempt to fit the new with the old. See his treatment of Enterprise ("Wrong-wrong-wrong!!")in his last release.

Before the publication of the Star Trek Chronology in 1993, many fandom publications used dates similar to the Graham/Mandel/Dixon Timeline. I thought it would be fun to include the Graham/Mandel/Dixon dates for discussion and comparison purposes to the "official" Okuda Timeline. Many fans accounted for the time between TOS and the TOS movies similarly to the Graham/Mandel/Dixon Timeline.

However, now that canon Star Trek has been retconned to the Okuda Timeline dates, and licensees use the Okuda Timeline, the Star Trek Fandom Chronology is obsolete.

 

[F. King Daniel]

There was also the officially-licenced Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology book in 1979, which put TOS at the turn of the 23rd century. It's timeline was used in many novels at the time. FASA's role playing game built upon it, and puts TMP in 2217 and WoK, TSFS and TVH all in 2222.

 

[Tom]

ST: TWOK - 2285

ST: TSFS - 2288

ST: TVH - 2286 (and 1986)

hmmm was there time travel in TSFS? lol

 

[Satyrquaze]

In ST VI McCoy says he's been Enterprises CMO for 27 years...
I'm a little curious how the "27 years" was arrived at by the writers, it seems to be an odd number...

"The Cage" was filmed in 1964. TUC was released in 1991.

It was the writer's little shout out that Star Trek was 27 years old at the time.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

In ST VI McCoy says he's been Enterprises CMO for 27 years...
I'm a little curious how the "27 years" was arrived at by the writers, it seems to be an odd number...

"The Cage" was filmed in 1964. TUC was released in 1991.

It was the writer's little shout out that Star Trek was 27 years old at the time.

Ahh! I never thought of the date The Cage was filmed. It seems so obvious now!

 

[Satyrquaze]

^ I wasn't sure either until I looked it up the dates.

 

[Herbert1]

In ST VI McCoy says he's been Enterprises CMO for 27 years...
I'm a little curious how the "27 years" was arrived at by the writers, it seems to be an odd number...

"The Cage" was filmed in 1964. TUC was released in 1991.

It was the writer's little shout out that Star Trek was 27 years old at the time.

The writers just forgot about CMO Dr. Mark Piper (Paul Fix) in "Where No Man Has Gone Before."

 

[Satyrquaze]

^ Yeah, I remembered that too. Meh, its not the first time they've conviently forgotten a fact to tell a story.

 

[Therin of Andor]

ST: TWOK - 2285

ST: TSFS - 2288

ST: TVH - 2286 (and 1986)

hmmm was there time travel in TSFS? lol

Dixon was probably making room for DC Comics' post-ST II comics, in which Spock gets restored by Mirror Universe Spock, becomes captain of the USS Surak, while Kirk & co are buzzing around the galaxy in the USS Excelsior. Then Spock gets a virus that degenerates him to the same state he was in at the end of ST III.

Or that, and someone made a typo.

 

[Uhura's Panties]

ST: TWOK - 2285

ST: TSFS - 2288

ST: TVH - 2286 (and 1986)

hmmm was there time travel in TSFS? lol

Dixon was probably making room for DC Comics' post-ST II comics, in which Spock gets restored by Mirror Universe Spock, becomes captain of the USS Surak, while Kirk & co are buzzing around the galaxy in the USS Excelsior. Then Spock gets a virus that degenerates him to the same state he was in at the end of ST III.

Or that, and someone made a typo.

What he said....lol