Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ee173xcj From: ee173xcj@sdcc3.UUCP (David Johnson) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: A new question to mull over Message-ID: <2434@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 01:31:02 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2434 Posted: Sat Nov 3 01:31:02 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Nov-84 09:59:51 EST References: <183@ttidcb.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 32 > Now that we've basically run the warp speed question into the ground > (with everyone giving a different "definitive answer" it's time for > a new question that's been bugging me for some time: > > How do stardates work? > > It seems to me that in the early episodes they were down at about 1600 > or so and then later on they got up to 6500 quickly. If this were > the case they would get into Astronomic [:-)] numbers very fast. > Does anyone have any info on this? There are two methods on how stardates work, and a third one, my method. One: Stardates varied according to base time at the central navigation beacon (330 degrees and 50 light years from Earth) and the speed traveled and the location in space, to get a virtually incomprehensible bit of data. Two: For the later books based on the startrek characters, some used the method of using the current date for the stardate, thus November 2, 1984 would be stardate 8410.2. I'm not sure which books used this. Three: Stardates were a meaningless number created to fill a lexical void in the logs. (the realistic version). Krako owns a cool diner. David Johnson UCSD