Atoz 77
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Post by Atoz 77 on Oct 5, 2009 7:55:11 GMT -6
I'm glad you guys are figuring this star date thing out! I was just noticing the other day that all the stardates in TOS begin with 1 through 5. So maybe the fashion in those days was merely to account for the ship's own mission. Year One of the mission, Year Two, and so on.
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Post by andrewlee on Oct 5, 2009 8:14:01 GMT -6
I'm glad you guys are figuring this star date thing out! I was just noticing the other day that all the stardates in TOS begin with 1 through 5. So maybe the fashion in those days was merely to account for the ship's own mission. Year One of the mission, Year Two, and so on. I never thought of it this way. It just another just a mystery to me.
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Post by macawol on Oct 5, 2009 8:24:54 GMT -6
Well, it is the most sense I have heard about TOS's stardates.
I read a formula once, which ended up excluding half TOS's stardates.
If it had worked I would have posted it.
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edify
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Post by edify on Jan 2, 2010 22:08:35 GMT -6
This is interesting as I have wondered how they came up with star dates! It looks sort of comlicated....Im not the best at math. I'm wondering if a Federation star ship gets thrown into the distant past, will the star date be a negative number? ;D Actually, the way they kept track of stardates in the later shows is not very complicated. This seems to be a technical way of translating today's date into a stardate, but in The Next Generation, the stardates worked like this: The stardate of "Encounter at Farpoint" was 41153.7. The first digit (4) stands for the 24th century, the second digit (1) stands for the season the episode is in, in this case season 1. The last three digits (153) start low and proceed to get higher as the season progresses (for instance, "The Naked Now" was 41209.2, "Code of Honor" was 41235.25, "The Last Outpost" was 41386.4, etc.). Finally, the digit after the decimal point indicates what tenth of the day the log entry is being made in. Deep Space Nine and Voyager, continuing after The Next Generation ended, used the same basic concept but kept the numbers proceeding higher (for instance, the third season of Deep Space Nine and the first season of Voyager began with the digits 48, even though it was their third and first seasons, respectively). I'm not sure how they came up with the stardates in The Original Series. But I've never been a math person, so I'll leave the technical aspects of the stardates to the ones who are.
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Post by andrewlee on Jan 2, 2010 23:56:31 GMT -6
Thanks for the explanation!! I will have to reread it a few times, but I get the basic idea.
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