Stardate Calendar
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That really sucks. That is the only Star Trek calendar I bought, and it also was a way to revisit all the series and the movies. That really really sucks.
This is like saying to hell with The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. Only the original series matters with calendars.
Here's hoping there will be a Stardate 2009 desktop calendar.
This is like saying to hell with The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. Only the original series matters with calendars.
Here's hoping there will be a Stardate 2009 desktop calendar.
No, it's like saying, "Too bad not enough people are interested in buying Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise calendars for us to be able to afford to keep publishing them. Only the Original Series calendars sell well enough." It's not the publishers making these decisions for some arbitrary reason. The public makes the decisions with their wallets and checkbooks.
Keep in mind that TOS has been around for 40 years and therefore has a big, loyal audience base and a great deal of name and image recognition. TNG is comparably well-known and popular, but the other series were never as broad in their appeal. And apparently the segment of the public that buys ST calendars tends to be more interested in TOS than TNG for whatever reason.
But the Ships of the Line calendar is still being published, and that covers all the series and then some, not just TOS.
Yep. It's mainly tradition. Pocket has done ST wall calendars since the one for 1980, released late 1979, for ST:TMP. (They took over the license from Ballantine who did them for TOS all through the 70s, same format.)
Pocket also tried a week-a-page TMP desk diary for 1980, which I loved, but it obviously didn't sell well, so it was discontinued.
The ST page-a-day desk calendar is a relatively new thing (1998, celebrating the hit movie, "First Contact"), but in recent years way too many people waited till after New Year to buy it at discount.
I never really saw the point of daily calendars. If I want to know what day it is, I'll look at my watch. That said, I bought the Stardate calendar (in post-Christmas discount sales) for something like four years running.
Not that I use my wall calendar for anything practical, though.
Not that I use my wall calendar for anything practical, though.
^ Yeah, I always enjoyed the pictures more than anything else, particularly ones I'd never seen before, and it was also a way to enjoy all of Trek's incarnations throughout the year. For 2008, I'm using the Harry Potter version, so at least that space on my desk is being used by something similar. 
What's wrong with that? As others have stated, a monthly calendar is better for long-term planning whereas a daily calendar is merely good for a bit of entertainment in the morning. Additionally, a daily calendar is more wasteful (unless one saves all of the days but I bet most people don't).Bgt said:
More ppl buy the wall callendars than the desktop one?
