Time between seasons

[Jono]

Just wondering how much time (in the actual show not in the real world) passed between the last episode a season and the first of the next season. I know that between Call to Arms and A Time to Stand O'Brien said it was 3 months, was this the same for all the seasons?

 

[Lateralus]

Hard to say.

As you said, Season 5 and 6 were separated by about 3 months. And from the way Kira talked about Sisko's time spent on Earth with his father, I get the feeling 6 and 7 had the same break.

DS9 seemed to work pretty linearly so I'd expect 3 months or close to it for all of the seasons.

 

[LeadHead]

Most of the breaks were never specificallydefined in terms of time. I'd imagine the breaks between seasons 2 and 3 and the break between 4 and 5 were pretty short. Probably just a couple of weeks, a month at the most.

 

[AdmiralGarak]

The writers intended for the gaps between seasons to be roughly the same length of time in the fictional world as in the real world.

 

[DanCPA]

do the stardates line up with such large gaps?

 

[Jono]

do the stardates line up with such large gaps?

Not between season 5 and 6, there is only around 100 point difference between the date in Call to Arms and the first stardate in Season 6, which was in episode two or three I think.

If 1000 stardates = 375 Earth days and the difference between each unit in the stardate is equal across the whole range then the time between the two seasons is just over a month.

 

[toughlittleship]

Sisko mentioned he he been on Earth for a few weeks in The Search, but we don't know if they left to brief Starfleet Command as soon as Eris beamed off the station or some time after that. I would say Apocalypse Rising was just a few days after Broken Link.

 

[nx1701g]

If you use the stardates of some of the episodes with online converters then you can get a generalized idea.

Season 2 (the penultimate episode was in December) with the stardate for The Search translating into March. So roughly 3 months.

Season 3 (The Adversary) to Season 4 (Way of the Warrior) December 2371 to January 2372

Season 4 (Broken Link) December 2372 to Season 5 (The Ship as Apocalypse Rising had no date) January 2373

Season 5 (A Call to Arms) December 2373 to Season 6 (Rocks and Shoals since A Time to Stand has no Stardate given) February 2374

Season 6 (The Sound of Her Voice as there is no date for Tears) December to Season 7 (Shadows and Symbols since Imagine in the Sand has no date) February.