Stardates ???

[tharpdevenport]

They're meaningless numbers.

Yeah, but it doesn't make any sense character can thus remember them. "Oh yes, that was stardate _________." Or: "Can you tell us where you were stardate _____________?"

Yeah, right.

Hard to follow passage of time and place when nothing is logically laid out time wise.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah, but it doesn't make any sense character can thus remember them. "Oh yes, that was stardate _________." Or: "Can you tell us where you were stardate _____________?"

Yeah, right.

Hard to follow passage of time and place when nothing is logically laid out time wise.

Makes sense to the characters and that’s all that matters.

 

[fireproof78]

Makes sense to the characters and that’s all that matters.

Yes, it's a story point not a history lesson.

 

[BillJ]

Stardates are gibberish to make the shows seem futuristic. Nothing more, nothing less. It is a fools' errand to try and make sense of them.

 

[Hawku]

The TNG stardate system doesn't start until the year 2323, a bit after DIS/SNW/TOS. My headcanon is someone tripped over the Ethernet cable at Starfleet Headquarters, causing it all to reset.

 

[fireproof78]

The TNG stardate system doesn't start until the year 2323, a bit after DIS/SNW/TOS. My headcanon is someone tripped over the Ethernet cable at Starfleet Headquarters and causing it all to reset.

Y24K was a rough new year .

 

[camdudetenger2018]

Voyager's Homestead states Stardate 54868.6 is April 5 2378.
Disco's premiere episode The Vulcan Hello states Stardate 1207.3 is May 11 2256.

lol would it be easyer to say like stardate 0405.2378 and stardate 0511.2256

 

[UssGlenn]

Does the stardate calculator move to the next date in January or at the start of the new TV season in September?

 

[Maurice]

Roddenberry even said they were actually meant to be inconsistent

I don't think he said that as much as his explanation hand waved away any need to be consistent.

That said, de Forest Research frequently commented on the issue when stardates went backwards.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Does the stardate calculator move to the next date in January or at the start of the new TV season in September?

Both. In-universe, each TNG through VOY stardate year seemed to start towards the beginning of an Earth year and in real life, at the start of each TV season. Naturally, there are occasional instances when this isn't true at all.