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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: [QB] Well, FYI, the Okudas' [i]Star Trek Chronology[/i] was the original source of the date. The annotations in the book claim that Dr. McCoy stated that humans and Klingons had been adversaries for 50 years in "Day of the Dove" (TOS). However, at least according to [URL=http://www.voyager.cz/tos/epizody/67dayofdovetrans.htm]this transcript[/URL], no such line was spoken in the episode. Now, it's possible that there was such a line and that this transcript omits it. (It occasionally happens that closed-captions abbreviate certain lines, and alternatively the transcript may be of a version of the episode that had certain scenes trimmed in television syndication.) I think it would be exceedingly helpful if someone who actually owns the full DVD version of the episode would please verify whether or not it exists. Even in the case that McCoy did utter such a line, though, it doesn't necessarily tell us anything about when Klingon first contact happened. Just because there was a period of hostility going back half a century before 2268 doesn't mean that first contact couldn't have predated that particular period of hostility. Furthermore, the only line that ever explicitly referred to first contact with the Klingons was in the TNG episode "First Contact," and described it as having taken place "centuries ago." Being that the episode was set in 2367, and being that first contact occurred [i]at least two centuries[/i] before that date, it [b]cannot[/b] have occurred in 2218. Rather, it must have occurred [i]at least[/i] as far back as 2167. "Broken Bow" (ENT) nailed it down more precisely as 2151, a date which is in no way inconsistent with any of the above lines, and there can now be no question whatever as to when first contact between Earth and the Klingon Empire canonically took place. End. Of. Story. -[b]MMoM[/b] :D [/QB][/QUOTE]
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