Stardate calculators
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Huh? Season 4 of LDS aired a few months agothere was no 2023 season;
Arg! I knew that. I was reading an old page and forgot. I need to get more sleep.
We don’t. Just another thing to make up.
Sure it is.
I worked out how stardates could work once:
I have been battling with the inconsistencies of Stardates a lot in my head recently. I just can’t find an overarching pattern, consistency or actual any sense to them. I wish that this could all have been finalised and worked out properly by the production staff over the years as it is all quite frustrating.
hopefully a standardised stardate system can be implemented for future Star Trek productions to give a sense of consistency?
I even heard once that star dates change depending on where you are in the galaxy, maybe this is a a result of light travelling? So for example, the stardate on Earth and Vulcan would be different to the stardate on Alpha Centuri because the light reaching these systems would take different amounts of time to travel to them from other places, and thus give a different stardate from wherever this light is viewed from?
Perhaps stardates should be recorded from one (or a combination of a few?) points of celestial reference. This (or these) reference point(s) can be combined with the actual local dates and time from nearby planetary perspectives? This combined number is not only a record of time, but also a record of space like coordinates (if more than one celestial body is used as a reference point as previously mentioned). It could be like an intergalactic x and y axis grid (space) combined with time. It would need more than an x and y axis though as space is not 2D, it is actually 3D.
Stardates could be:
x, y, -x, -y, *local date and time*, *time it takes for light to travel from point A*,*Time it takes for light to travel from point B*
This could be put in any order just like how around our planet in different places we change the order of the date:
2022, 05, 20
20, 05, 2022
05, 20, 2022
Kirk: "Back two-eight point seven-six!"
Now I'm curious how other novel writers decide them.
Yahtzee!
Depends what you mean. Of course we can’t do timey wimey stuff, just a simulation.
A physical chronometer wouldn’t be hard. I have JavaScript stardate clocks on my page. I recreate several different methods updated in real time, but there is no consensus method. One of them is the method Star Trek Online uses in the game.
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Segued? More like a sharp turn. Maybe we should create a new thread for 78 discussion.
I’ve said everything I needed to say on the subject.
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Here's to the Class of '78!
I've heard it was a good year. Minus the Blizzard.
I've heard it was a good year. Minus the Blizzard.
And that's all the thought that should be given to them.
The idea is to have a stardate “clock” to use IRL, during the present, that’s always ticking. A calculator can convert stardate time stamps back into calendar dates.
Star Trek: Picard gave the first stardate of the 25th century as 78183.10 on March 9, 2023. That is 78183/1000 years since January 1, 1945, suggesting an epoch for the current era of stardates. They should use decimal time, so .00 represents midnight UTC/GMT, .10 is 02:24, .50 is noon, etc., just like Modified Julian Dates. The number of digits portray precision: two digits have a precision of 14.4 minutes, as opposed to 2.4 hours for one digit.
Because the digits left of the decimal count 1000/365 = about 2.74 units per day and ones to the right count 1.0 per day, there are some incongruities, such as not being entirely linear, but that's also true on the shows. Thus, this bug could actually be a feature.
Stardate 78902.58
Star Trek: Picard gave the first stardate of the 25th century as 78183.10 on March 9, 2023. That is 78183/1000 years since January 1, 1945, suggesting an epoch for the current era of stardates. They should use decimal time, so .00 represents midnight UTC/GMT, .10 is 02:24, .50 is noon, etc., just like Modified Julian Dates. The number of digits portray precision: two digits have a precision of 14.4 minutes, as opposed to 2.4 hours for one digit.
Because the digits left of the decimal count 1000/365 = about 2.74 units per day and ones to the right count 1.0 per day, there are some incongruities, such as not being entirely linear, but that's also true on the shows. Thus, this bug could actually be a feature.
Stardate 78902.58
I would like to use this as model for a possible Stardate clock:
https://stevepugh.net/fleet/stardate.html
It works fine for the episodes of TNG, DS9 and VOY.
I don't care about the Stardate mentioned in the VOY episode Homestead since it was obviously messed up by someone who didn't know what he or she was doing, nor do I care about later changes from later movies or series.
However using that converter for the 21th century will show a - before the actual stardate so Monday 27 November 21.15 would look like this:
-300906.53
But that doesn't bother me!
That’s one I have listed on my web site.I would like to use this as model for a possible Stardate clock:
https://stevepugh.net/fleet/stardate.html
It works fine for the episodes of TNG, DS9 and VOY.
I don't care about the Stardate mentioned in the VOY episode Homestead since it was obviously messed up by someone who didn't know what he or she was doing, nor do I care about later changes from later movies or series.
However using that converter for the 21th century will show a - before the actual stardate so Monday 27 November 21.15 would look like this:
-300906.53
But that doesn't bother me!
Code:
TrekGuide: 77371.2
Schmidt: -299093.4
Pugh: -300905.97
Star Trek Online: 101512.06
MJD: 60275.9
Kelvin Timeline: 2023.331
Google/Main: [-26]7794.5
Discovery/Academy: 865906.6
Lower Decks: 58968.86This guy has some interesting things to say.
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