Timeline for What is the information on Captain Kirk's tombstone?
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| Aug 25, 2023 at 11:57 | history | edited | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Ancient typo
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| Sep 20, 2021 at 16:44 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @Izkata If you really want to get technical, it's a Cardasian station now owned by the Bajorans and administered by the Federation, which might also factor into it. I'm not sure how equivalent Bajoran hours are to Earth hours, nor why a space station (not apparently orbiting either Bajor or its sun) even needs to have a day/night cycle in the first place, but like time measurement, that's another detail they chose not to deal with. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 15:09 | comment | added | Izkata | @DarrelHoffman DS9 uses 26-hour days, the standard for its closest planet, Bajor. Though technically it's also a Bajoran space station that's only administrated by the Federation, so that may be why that standard, instead of location. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 14:22 | comment | added | Barmar | @DarrelHoffman I always attributed that to simple translation to time periods that the audience would understand, just like the way the language was translated to English. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @DavidW Star Trek was always a bit wishy-washy on time measurement. They still use seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc. in almost every culture, even though these are defined based on values which are only relevant on Earth. Not every inhabited planet would have the same speed of rotation or revolution around its star, and deep space stations (e.g. DS9) don't even have a star to measure against, but it's implied they all seem to run on an Earth schedule for some reason. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 10:15 | history | edited | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2021 at 3:41 | history | edited | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 20, 2021 at 3:27 | comment | added | Spencer | @lucasbachmann This is a question about a prop, so "what the prop guy thought" is what's important. I don't think it's based on any later star date system. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 3:21 | comment | added | lucasbachmann | Your 1.3 years criticism based on Kirk's age may be based on what was possibly intended by the prop guy. But considering the log dates in the episode don't support it and do support something closer to 1.0 stardates = 1 day...and nothing in TOS to Voy supports it either- why even bother writing the bulk of your answer? | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 3:11 | comment | added | Spencer | @DavidW Again: Pilot episode, inconsistent worldbuilding. The middle initial was messed up. The match with Shatner's age is enough for me. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 2:58 | comment | added | DavidW | Stardates are not years. That's pretty clear. (And besides, they're called "star_dates_" not "staryears".) | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 2:48 | comment | added | LogicDictates | Kirk mentions several different star dates in his audio logs throughout the episode, each one being later than the last. The final date he mentions near the end of the episode is 1313.8. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 2:33 | history | answered | Spencer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |