Just had a thought - stardates in DSC?

[starmike]

So, ENT used dates, TOS' stardates were in the low 4-digits. I'm guessing that DSC will use actual dates? Unless they retcon all that.

 

[Kelso]

Perhaps they'll split the difference as the new films did.

 

[Kor]

Please go back to using nonsensical numbers that don't relate to any date system that we can understand. Anything else would violate the spirit of true Star Trek.

Kor

 

[Mudd]

I'd hope they'd continue using the stardate system from the Abrams movies. It makes the most sense.

 

[Albinator]

Better question: why does it matter?

 

[Tuskin38]

I'd hope they'd continue using the stardate system from the Abrams movies. It makes the most sense.

Why would multi star system alliance use an earth based date system?

 

[starmike]

Better question: why does it matter?

Because I'm curious. Is that OK?

 

[Mirror Mirror]

I for one would like star dates to make sense and not be random.

 

[Mudd]

Why would multi star system alliance use an earth based date system?

Same reason everyone on the show speaks English most all of the time.

 

[Tuskin38]

Same reason everyone on the show speaks English most all of the time.

..Universal translators?

 

[The Wormhole]

Actually, English is called "Federation Standard" meaning someone considers it the default language for the Federation. Which must suck for the larger percentage of humanity that speaks Mandarin Chinese.

 

[Mudd]

..Universal translators?

Right answer: because the intent is to provide the audience with information rather than to obfuscate and confuse.

In fact, the original reason for TOS's weird stardates was precisely to avoid providing the audience with information. Over the decades it transpired that this hadn't worked; there was real insistence on knowing when Trek events occurred. A specific year for the adventures of the TNG crew was finally given onscreen during the first season of TNG, and later producers, script writers and researchers developed an entire chronology from this first bit of information.

Trek isn't a documentary being shot in the future. There are no universal translators, and there is no such thing as a "stardate" system - there are only real Earth dates or manufactured gibberish.

 

[Mudd]

Actually, English is called "Federation Standard" meaning someone considers it the default language for the Federation. Which must suck for the larger percentage of humanity that speaks Mandarin Chinese.

They all migrated to some weird star system that has something like a hundred Earth-type planets.

 

[Campe]

I'd rather they didn't.

 

[Tosk]

Which must suck for the larger percentage of humanity that speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Assuming they still do.

 

[Dukhat]

Why would multi star system alliance use an earth based date system?

Because the multi star system alliance isn't the viewing audience. Just like how Saru speaks English because his race isn't the viewing audience.

 

[KennyB]

I'm sure whatever format they go with will destroy "Gene's Vision".

 

[Kor]

Trek isn't a documentary being shot in the future.

Now he tells us.

Kor

 

[SPCTRE]

They all migrated to some weird star system that has something like a hundred Earth-type planets.

shiny!

 

[dahj]

They should have an episode called "Stardate 0.0" that's going to explain in detail how the stardate system came about and how does it work.

It should be a two-parter.