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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ryan McReynolds: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [qb]To throw a few more monkey wrenches into the equation, there's the bottle of Romulan ale dated 2283 that McCoy gives Kirk in ST2, along with his line that "it takes this stuff a while to ferment."[/qb][/QUOTE]Why would a bottle of illegal Romulan ale (noted to be from accross the Nautral Zone) be labeled with an Earth date? "Gambit" and "Unification" clearly establish the Romulan exodus from Vulcan to have been about two thousand years ago... if Romulus orbits a type-G star and has a similar year-length to Earth, this fits pretty well for being a Romulan date. I think the bottle's vintage can be ignored for timelining purposes. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [qb]The round "15 years" reference could and IMHO should be taken to mean something between 15 and 17.5 years, which gives us a bit more leeway. "Space Seed" could go comfortably to 2268 or even 2267, then, and not contradict the 2283-plus dating of ST2. [/qb][/QUOTE]Well, we know that TWoK-TFF were probably all within one year of each other, despite Okuda's stretching in the [i]Chronology[/i]. Certainly TVH is only three months after TSfS. While [i]some[/i] time passed before TFF, the implication is that the [i]Enterprise[/i]-A is still untried and untested, so anything more than a year would be pushing it. I believe a [i]Starlog[/i] article quoted someone as saying TFF was supposed to be six months after TVH. Whatever. You get the point. Anyway, in TFF, Nimbus III is 20 years old. It couldn't have been founded before "Balance of Terror," which is within months of "Space Seed." So the relevant movies simultaneously take place 15 years after TOS Season One (by TWoK) and 20 years after TOS Season One (by TFF). We can ignore one or the other, or use those dates as upper and lower limits. I choose the latter. Furthermore, we know that "Space Seed" can't be in 2267-68, if you accept that TOS occurred in roughly production order over several years. "Sarek" puts "Journey to Babel" in 2266-67, and "Trials and Tribble-ations" puts "The Trouble With Tribbles" in 2267-68. Since these two episodes are very close to each other, we can safely say that they both take place in 2267. Both are second season episodes, which means that "Space Seed," as an early first season episode, would have to be in 2265 or, more likely, 2266, unless one wants to compress time to ridiculous levels. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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