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colin
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In "Who Mourns for Adonais?", the adventures of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 are dated approximately 5000 years after the Trojan War. This is a major OOPS.

Since the days of the ancient city-states of Greece, the Trojan War has been dated to approximately 1200 BCE. This dating is confirmed by recent archaelogical excavations at Troy.

If the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 is in operation 5000 years after 1200 BCE, she and her crew would be in approximately the year 3800 CE.

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Aethelwer
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Given the shakiness of the current evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the Trojan War will be discovered to have happened earlier than currently believed.
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colin
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I am not aware of this evidence that you speak of. Please explain.
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Treknophyle
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"Given the shakiness of the current evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the Trojan War will be discovered to have happened earlier than currently believed.
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'Bad writing.'

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Sol System
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Yes Frank, could you please sum up the totality of modern archeological thought for us, with an eye towards predicting major future discoveries?
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Harry
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Given the shakiness of the current evidence, it would not be unreasonable to assume that the Trojan War will be discovered to have happened earlier than currently believed.

Somehow I doubt that archeologists will re-research the Trojan war because of the Star Trek timeline.

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TSN
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Am I the only one here who thought Frank's statement made complete sense?
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Teelie
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Does anyone else think this is going a tad too far?

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The_Tom
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IIRC, research on Troy has produced decent enough results for us to get the Trojan War narrowed down to within a century or two.

So Frank is dumb.


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