In "Who Mourns for Adonais?", the adventures of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 are dated approximately 5000 years after the Trojan War. This is a major OOPS.
Since the days of the ancient city-states of Greece, the Trojan War has been dated to approximately 1200 BCE. This dating is confirmed by recent archaelogical excavations at Troy.
If the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 is in operation 5000 years after 1200 BCE, she and her crew would be in approximately the year 3800 CE.
[ August 09, 2001: Message edited by: targetemployee ]
Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :
Given the shakiness of the current evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the Trojan War will be discovered to have happened earlier than currently believed.
Posted by targetemployee (Member # 217) on :
I am not aware of this evidence that you speak of. Please explain.
Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :
"Given the shakiness of the current evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the Trojan War will be discovered to have happened earlier than currently believed. "
Universal Translator: 'Bad writing.'
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Yes Frank, could you please sum up the totality of modern archeological thought for us, with an eye towards predicting major future discoveries?
Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
quote:Given the shakiness of the current evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the Trojan War will be discovered to have happened earlier than currently believed.
Somehow I doubt that archeologists will re-research the Trojan war because of the Star Trek timeline.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Am I the only one here who thought Frank's statement made complete sense?
Posted by TLE (Member # 280) on :
Does anyone else think this is going a tad too far? Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
IIRC, research on Troy has produced decent enough results for us to get the Trojan War narrowed down to within a century or two.
