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Originally posted by Phelps:
A couple of things...the airdate+300 system wasn't unheard of at the time -- we'd seen it in "Sarek", where the writers gave Sarek an age of 202, setting "Journey to Babel" in 2266 or so.

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I meant unheard of prior to The Next Generation. Mike Okuda was quite possibly already the timeline-compiler at the time "Sarek" was written. Even if not, my point was simply that Star Trek was never intended to be exactly three-hundred years after the airdates until it was retconned into that position during the late 1980s.

As late as the Phase II bible, the producers had still not decided on the exact date. They knew it was 200-300 years into the future (look at the section describing stardates), and varied their references within this general range.

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: Phelps ]

Except he's a time-traveling Romulan. heehee...

~ Jason

p.s. - Ryan, you raise some valid points in defense of the show - but can't they show us what we'd like/expect to see, at least ONCE...? =P

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: Capt_Spencer ]