Counterpoint: they should have just kept real world dates without worrying that they “didn’t happen.” We all know Star Trek is made up. Stop trying to reconcile it with real history.
Not my preference. Star Trek was made to be about our future, not the future of an alternate past.
SNW seems to have formalized the concept of a sliding timeline, attributed to temporal cold war shenanigans. I hate that justification, but the sliding timeline approach is probably the best one for how the franchise has developed. The Eugenics Wars are will happen 20 to 30 years from now… whenever now is.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: we do not refer to BCE dates by the calendars of their time…the original date as it was referred to then may be documented, but everything from our time referencing them is converted to the BCE/CE scale.
And for good reason. Could you imagine if we still referred to events that happened > ~1400 years ago as “the harvest season of the second year of king Louie”?
As contemporaries of the stardate era, only a total nerd would know how people of a given historic era would refer to their calendar. Most people, assumedly, would have learned from resources scaled to a stardate calendar.
It’s not the dating system I’m concerned about, I’m not bothered whether they use stardates or CE. I think it was unnecessary to adjust the Trek timeline in SNW because the 90s had passed and the Eugenics Wars hadn’t happened.
Counterpoint: they should have just kept real world dates without worrying that they “didn’t happen.” We all know Star Trek is made up. Stop trying to reconcile it with real history.
Not my preference. Star Trek was made to be about our future, not the future of an alternate past.
SNW seems to have formalized the concept of a sliding timeline, attributed to temporal cold war shenanigans. I hate that justification, but the sliding timeline approach is probably the best one for how the franchise has developed. The Eugenics Wars are will happen 20 to 30 years from now… whenever now is.
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: we do not refer to BCE dates by the calendars of their time…the original date as it was referred to then may be documented, but everything from our time referencing them is converted to the BCE/CE scale.
And for good reason. Could you imagine if we still referred to events that happened > ~1400 years ago as “the harvest season of the second year of king Louie”?
As contemporaries of the stardate era, only a total nerd would know how people of a given historic era would refer to their calendar. Most people, assumedly, would have learned from resources scaled to a stardate calendar.
It’s not the dating system I’m concerned about, I’m not bothered whether they use stardates or CE. I think it was unnecessary to adjust the Trek timeline in SNW because the 90s had passed and the Eugenics Wars hadn’t happened.
Star Trek did the “Simpsons did it” before the simpsons was even conceptualized.