Official timeline for the TOS crew?

[A beaker full of death]

^ And don't forget various episodes that track Kirk (and/or others) walking around the upper bridge deck, like "The Doomsday Machine" At the end of the episode, he and Spock walk around the front half of the bridge, past the viewer so that you see the sections/stations to either side.

I love that shot.

 

[Michael]

I thought the 2nd tubolift was right where the camera is placed in that shot? So, to play devil's advocate, we still don't know.

Huh? You're joking, right? The camera in this shot is placed by Spock's science station. How can there be another turbolift?

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

I thought the 2nd tubolift was right where the camera is placed in that shot? So, to play devil's advocate, we still don't know.

Nope, the second lift in TAS was between the Main View Screen and the Engineering Station:

 

[Therin of Andor]

It's been years since I've seen TAS. Do they say anything to indicate that it's new? Like, "Hey, Mr. Spock, check out the new turbolift!"

No, although TAS certainly acknowledges that the animated episodes are happening after TOS. Several episodes, of course, are direct sequels to TOS episodes ("More Tribbles, More Troubles", "Yesteryear", "Once Upon a Planet" and "Mudd's Passion", or have a returning villain - ie. Kor in "The Time Trap").

Also, Arex and M'Ress, about to lunch together in "The Practical Joker", get blamed as the pranksters and the inference seems to be because they are both new to the ship they are under suspicion.

No one mentions that the bridge now has a second turbolift (although it still does in TMP) nor that the bridge chairs now have round bases on them.

Roddenberry's take on stardates in TOS (and continued by DC Fontana in TAS) was that they are quite random, due to position in time and space, but that within an episode the numbers are shown to move forward with the passage of time. TAS stardates are quite random, episode by episode.

The very useful timeline that appears in the recent ST novel guidebook, "Voyages of Imagination" by Jeff Ayers, uses production order for TOS, and "Star Trek Log" publication order for TAS, which makes use of the revised (sequentially later) stardates added by Alan Dean Foster when he adapted and serialized them for book form.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Nope, the second lift in TAS was between the Main View Screen and the Engineering Station:

Oh, I see. I assumed it was in the same spot as in the movies. Thanks.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ Sorry...I didn't notice there was a next page when I replied. My bad.

I love that shot.

Yep, I love it and other shots that vary from the usual "Looking straight at the rear turbolift" angle. First season TOS was better for this, but there are few gems in the 2nd and 3rd seasons, too (TDM, for example).