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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Boris: [QB] This is not a thread about stardates; it suffices to say that you can't precisely convert them even in the TNG era, although the latter are more regular than those of TOS. Let's be clear on this -- Star Trek is not a show about technological progress. The early outlines made it clear that this was a show where space travel has become so easy that it calls to mind the days of the sailing ships; it was the only way it could've been done on a weekly budget, and it also allowed the writers to focus on the characters rather than the technology. Quite in that same spirit, every time a new technology is developed (M-5, transwarp, quantum slipstream, you name it), it doesn't work! You have to make a new series set a century later for any changes to be seen, and even then they're only minor. According to the Star Trek universe, our technological progress will start to decline 150 years from now. It may be due to our own efforts, it may be due to the Vulcans or other aliens that agreed to share their technology in the process of forming the Federation. Boris [/QB][/QUOTE]
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