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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Okay, a minor nitpicking here:

In Voyager's episode 'Homestead' they selebrate 'First Contact day'. Fine by me! But they are selebrating in one of the final episodes of the season, meaning near the end of a year. But wasn't First Contact made in April???

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Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :

Agghhh...no!! Not a continuity error in Voyager! Say it's not so!!

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Just because it's the end of the season, doesn't mean it's the end of the year. But, we now have a definite year for VGR: 2378.

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

Was that ever really in doubt? We know the initial stardate when Voyager was lost..

Mark

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Posted by colin (Member # 217) on :

Voyager has succeeded twice in one endeavor in the seventh season-they have frelled Okuda's Chronology.

First, the episode places the end of TOS in 2270.

Second, the question of the stardate year. Okuda assumed that stardates start in January and end in December-an Earth year. Now, we see definitive proof that the stardate year is from late summer of the last year to the late summer of the next year. (There are indications of this in earlier episodes of Star Trek, but nothing definitive.)

I wouldn't be surprised if Okuda's work is frelled further in the next series.

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

All of Trek is pretty much frelled now....

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

Christ almighty! The chronology has been compromised! Quick, Mr. President, to your bunker...

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Could've been worse. They could've compromised our cookies...

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Posted by Teelie (Member # 280) on :

Speak for yourself, mine have been, arrrrgh!!!

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Posted by Soontir_Fel on :

He's dead, Jim.

Oh, and so are you...

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Posted by warbird5 on :

Not your cookies!!! Anything but them. Say it isn't so.

Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :

Before we all go into panic, let's remember that Okuda has been quite willing to correct his own writings in the past, when confronted with good-speculation-disproven-by-introduction-of-new-stupid-facts. He toned down the absoluteness of timing of TMP for the second chronology, admitting it was speculative - just in time to make Icheb's line of Kirk's mission ending in 2270 NOT contrary to it.

I bet he'd be willing to rework the chronology based on the new evidence if it was affordable from the Pocket Books point of view. I doubt it is, though. But if SDXX000.0 indeed falls on late summer, then a lot of references make better sense:

-"Charlie X" and the relative positioning of Thanksgiving within the first TOS season (even though at this point, stardates aren't informative yet, this sets a precedent for the proper "seasons vs. dating" correspondence)
-The summerly climate of LaBarre, France, in the beginning of the fourth season and SD cycle of TNG. (the position of Orion seemed winterly, though, in the closing shot)
-The celebration of Christmas apparently being foremost in Picard's mind in "Generations"
-The celebration of Christmas apparently being in the very recent past in mid-season TOS "Dagger of the Mind"
-etc. etc.

Are there any explicit contradictions of this in the canon material?

Timo Saloniemi