quote:Originally posted by Harry: Well, at least there's finally something vaguely semi-canon regarding the nature of Alpha Centauri ("newly independent"). Of course, we don't know for sure what it's independent from, but it probably was an early Earth colony.
Well it fits nicely with the idea we had going a long time ago that Alpha Centauri was a colony before WWIII and that is where Zephram Cochrane came-from and that he was stuck on Earth in the mean-time.
And on those images posted above - the page opposite the Atlantis Project has pictures of Beverley and Wesley - from the Pilot episode I think. And that writing I think is the menu to that Parisienne restraunt mimiced in "We'll Always Have Paris".
And that Academy Seal has MMCLXI - 2161 isn't it?
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Well, everytime somebody says a date in long form, it's always month-day-year, so presumably the short form is that way, too. I'm American, and I think that's stupid.
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Concerning the date... well, I suppose in this case we could use the author's intention. Since the artists are American, they probably created it using the American system, namely month-day-year. So it'd be October 11, 2161.
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quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: Concerning the date... well, I suppose in this case we could use the author's intention. Since the artists are American, they probably created it using the American system, namely month-day-year. So it'd be October 11, 2161.
That's the kind of explanation I was trying to avoid.
I don't really care about the intentions of the artist.
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Concerning the habitability of the Alpha Centauri system; wasn't there a reference to Proxima (Alpha Centauri C) in "Starship Mine"? I believe a maintenance yard was said to have been operating around Proxima at the time.
While it's certainly possible that Starfleet built a starship maintenance facility in the middle of nowhere it makes more sense to say that it was built in orbit around some form of planet. It needn't be a M-Class planet to be colonised because remember that there are also settlements on Mars, Luna and supposedly even Pluto! It seams to be quite firmly established that even in the 22nd century Humans are perfectly capable of building self sufficient habitats.
Then there is of course a mention on DS9 (which might have already been mentioned) in which Alpha Centauri is said to be under threat in one of the Dominion War episodes.
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Not to mention "Zefram Cochrane, from Alpha Centauri?" and the countless speculations made by fandom which probably were in the back of a few behind-the-scenes people's heads.
quote: And I heard that the US navy actually uses the 21/1/02 not 1/21/02. Which is even more strange.
Actually, when I worked on the Super Hornet program, most of the official stuff from the military was in the form YY/MM/DD, which would make your example 02/01/21. Sometimes it was even written as 2002/01/21. Things can get confusing really quickly. That's why I usually write out the month and a four-digit year.
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