Not really, they usually skipped straight to the intercourse.
I'd prefer Kelvin style dates. It'a bit long in comparison to the regular Stardates, but the simplicity works and it sets a much easier marker for both the viewer and the writer.
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Not really, they usually skipped straight to the intercourse.
I'd prefer Kelvin style dates. It'a bit long in comparison to the regular Stardates, but the simplicity works and it sets a much easier marker for both the viewer and the writer.
NuBSG didn't have dates precisely. However, the first season kept track of Helo's days on Cylon-occupied Caprica, so we knew how much time had passed. Also, until SciFi took away the full credits (Season 3 I think) we had a running counter with the opening credits showing how many humans were alive as of the start of the episode, which would quite accurately tick downward as people died.
Wasn't the original intent of stardates to be a sort of handwave to acknowledge that ships in different regions of space or traveling at high speeds or FTL might be subject to varying temporal conditions? I am comfortable with random numbers. I liked the TNG 5 digit system as more related to 'Earth time / dates', but for STD, I am fine with random numbers.
can't they just add the normal date?
They could always do it the old fandom way. YYMM.DD
So today's 1609.07. Looks slightly more futuristic than the Kelvin timeline YYYY.DDD (2016.251)
So today's 1609.07. Looks slightly more futuristic than the Kelvin timeline YYYY.DDD (2016.251)
Just get rid of both stardates and log entries, most of the time they're just "random number, exposition exposition bla bla bla", completely unnecessary.
DS9 seemed to phase out the stardates over the years, by the final season they were barely mentioned and I doubt anyone missed them.
As was said before, the only reason they came up with stardates was because the TOS timeframe was supposed to be ambiguous.
We now know the years the shows and movies take place in making the stardates obsolete.
DS9 seemed to phase out the stardates over the years, by the final season they were barely mentioned and I doubt anyone missed them.
As was said before, the only reason they came up with stardates was because the TOS timeframe was supposed to be ambiguous.
We now know the years the shows and movies take place in making the stardates obsolete.
Or three digits since it's a decade earlier and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" started with 1212, or 1312, whichever it was.
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