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 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.