So, when I was working on my nerdiest list ever, involving episodes and when they occured, I wanted to keep track of every valid dating scheme possible.
But even if we disregard the animated series (which I of course did) and disregard stardates going backwards in, uh, I forget, and handwave the overlap you point out, there's still a problem. Namely: The episode "Miri" begins on 2713.5, and later, when we hear that the crew only has two more days until they are killed by life-extending space leprosy, the stardate is 2717.3. "Dagger of the Mind" takes place on and around 2715.2. The events of "Miri" preclude the Enterprise from popping off for a quick supply mission.
Now, this is quite possibly the lamest post I have ever posted. And we could just handwave this away too. But stardates simply don't make any kind of sense at all in TOS.
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I'd be tempted to say Kirk misspoke under stress and reversed the last two digits of the second stardate from Miri. But that would require my caring about such mundanities.
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Pffft. I expressly changed mine at your behest! OK, it's still a ripoff, but at least this one hadn't been done before. B)
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: I mean, airdate order puts "Where No Man Has Gone Before" AFTER "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X," for flubb's sake!
Yes, but going by production order for other Trek series doesn't work, unless you want Unification II to take place before Unification I. So why should it apply to TOS?
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quote:Originally posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim: I mean, airdate order puts "Where No Man Has Gone Before" AFTER "The Man Trap" and "Charlie X," for flubb's sake!
Yes, but going by production order for other Trek series doesn't work, unless you want Unification II to take place before Unification I. So why should it apply to TOS?
Following production order for TOS and the first season of TNG should be the rule to "Unification" 1 & 2 and say, "Family" being the exception for the sole fact that they are more than likely filmed out of order for a reason - not because the stardate system hadn't gotten its shit together yet. The End.
(Besides, who'd a thunk 35 years ago folks would be having nerd orgies like this over the order of stardates vs airdates vs production order?)
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So, you're saying that we should follow one logical system, and ignore any obvious errors that are caused by it?
I really have to remember that.
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