Question for all the Star Trekers in ATOT

[bleeb]

How do they create the stardates whenever Picard says something in his personal logs?

Stardate 1.2.3.2.3 etc... how does it go? year.month.day??

 

[Gage]

From the star trek official website

 

[bleeb]

Thanks! 😀

 

[NoReMoRsE]

Actually they make it up as they go along.

"Captain's Log, stardate 3.14159... mmm... pie..."

 

[TheCorm]

In the original series they meant very little, they progressed almost randomly but did get higher as it went on.

In the next generation onwards they correspond to the series of the TV Show prefixed by a 4....

so stardate 41345.4 took place in the 1st series or 2363/4 while 47856.2 took place in the 7th series of TNG, 1st series of DS9 or 2369/70.

Yeah...think that's right...ending trekgeek mode....

 

[Analog]

According to Gene Roddenberry in "The Making of Star Trek," stardates were originally created "simply to keep from tying ourselves down to 2265 ... " and to make clear that Star Trek was set in the future. There wasn't a method used to calculate the date, but the producers of the original show did keep a rough track of stardates and there was some logic as to how they progressed. However, as the shows aired out of order from the production order, the stardates would sometimes go backwards. To address this problem, Roddenberry formulated a clever explanation that used a bit of scientific double talk to make stardates sound more plausible, i.e. they "adjust for shifts in relative time which occur due to the vessel's speed and space warp capability ... "

By the time Star Trek: The Next Generation was produced, another digit was added to the stardates. According to Michael and Denise Okuda's "Star Trek Chronology," Gene Roddenberry added the extra digit to show how long had passed between the Original Series and the new show. The first digit used was a 4 and the second digit designated the show's current season. The last three digits before the decimal point would increase from 000-999 according to where in the season the episode took place.

As stardates don't really correspond to anything in reality, fans have taken it upon themselves to come up with their own version of dating based on the standard calendar. By using the year, month, day approach, the day the first episode of Star Trek aired, September 8, 1966, would appear as 6609.08.

 

[TheCorm]

As stardates don't really correspond to anything in reality, fans have taken it upon themselves to come up with their own version of dating based on the standard calendar. By using the year, month, day approach, the day the first episode of Star Trek aired, September 8, 1966, would appear as 6609.08.

I remember reading or viewing my explanation on a trek show of somesort....and have checked in episodes and it all corresponds.