Re: TNG's "Generations", "First Contact", and "Insurrection"
Emperor-Tiberius said:
Isn't there anyway to set INS inbetween season 6? Its not at all possible?
Isn't there any theory that can work, for it?
The hard data we have for the timing of
Insurrection is that one of the face-stretchers says that in the past 24 months the Federation has been challenged by the Borg, the Cardassians, and the Dominion. Assuming that the Borg challenge mentioned is that of
First Contact, then
Insurrection needs to be within about 24 months of stardate 50893.5.
Based on Memory Alpha data, stardate 50893.5 was sometime between the episodes ``Children of Time'' and ``Empok Nor''. Assuming that 12 months is one year and that one year is 1000 stardates, then every episode through to ``The Dogs of War'' comes in before the stardate 52893.5 cutoff. (If Memory Alpha is to be believed there's no stardates given in ``What You Leave Behind''.)
So, any episode in which there can plausibly be ``Dominion negotiations'' requiring large swaths of the Diplomatic Corps's attention is acceptable for when
Insurrection takes place.
The mention of the ``past 24 months'' suggests that it's some time more than a year since the Borg attack, and probably closer to two years than to one (or to three); the one-year mark to
First Contact appears to occur sometime between ``Valiant'' and ``The Sound of Her Voice''.
So those are the factors which argue for a setting sometime in the seventh season for
Insurrection. Putting it in the sixth season requires explaining why face-stretch guy was rounding up to 24 months instead of 12; putting it long after ``What You Leave Behind'' requires explaining why he said 24 months instead of 30.
