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- From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech
- Subject: Re: StarDate Answers
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 03:46:31 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <4647@vidiot.UUCP> <1992Dec26.173010.1152@mala.bc.ca>
- Reply-To: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
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- In a previous article, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) says:
-
- >In article <1992Dec26.173010.1152@mala.bc.ca> dunae@mala.bc.ca writes:
- ><StarDate Answers
- ><In the TNG technical manual it says that StarDates are used to keep
- ><the captain's personnal log entries in order. The StarDate is changed
- ><every day (ex: Monday=Stardate 1, Tuesday=StarDate 2, ect.). The
- ><fraction at the end of the StarDate indicates the time of day, acording
- ><to a 24 hour clock ((ex: Monday 1 a.m.=StarDate 1.1, Tuesday 1 p.m.=
- ><StarDate 2.13).--
- >
- >Page number please. I couldn't find it in my copy of the book. What you
- >say just does not makes sense, especially the way the numbers are used.
- >There are 1000 stardates in a year. The start of a season begins near 000
- >and the end of the season ends near 999. Look at all of the numbers again,
- >everything fits the 1000 stardate scheme.
- >--
- > harvard\ spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown
- >Vidiot ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
- > rutgers/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
- > brown@wi.extrel.com
- >
- According to one of the lists-of-lists floating around here somewhere on
- the net (althouth I couldn't find it now if I tried), Stardates in TOS
- were mostly random. They would progress during a show as mentioned above,
- but the stardate of each show was random. In TNG, stardates are as
- follows:
-
- 45123.7
- ^^--- ^
- || | |--- fraction of a day
- || |------ portion of a season
- ||-------- Season (5th season)
- |--------- 24th century
-
- The 2nd digit refers to Television seasons, not
- spring-summer-fall-winter type seasons
-
- I didn't know this myself until I read it here on alt.startrek.current
- (I think that's where it was)
-
- --
- -Dave Williss
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