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simshady
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2002 02:09
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I've just began being fond of star trek... am just curious as to how a stardate is defined? i.e. what do the numbers signify or does it signify the year, month, date, or hour at all?
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babel
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2002 03:02
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I have no idea but I do know that they were inconsistent, to say the least, with stardates in TOS. They jumped all over the place. I know for TNG and beyond the writers worked out a 'proper' system.
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havoc
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# Posted: 27 Dec 2002 03:11
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I can't tell you exactly how the Stardate system really works, but I can give you a rough estimate on how they work it out though.
For example: - Stardate 212989.47
21: - Century
2: - Year In Century
989: - x.365= Day In Year
47(000): - Percentage Of Day Past.
Hope that helps.
Havoc! 
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simshady
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# Posted: 28 Dec 2002 22:35
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 hey, thanks!!
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dev0k
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# Posted: 2 Jan 2003 20:36
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<!--QuoteBegin--havoc+Dec. 27 2002,03:11--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (havoc @ Dec. 27 2002,03:11)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I can't tell you exactly how the Stardate system really works, but I can give you a rough estimate on how they work it out though. <br><br>For example: - Stardate 212989.47<br><br>21: - Century<br>2: - Year In Century<br>989: - x.365= Day In Year<br>47(000): - Percentage Of Day Past.<br><br>Hope that helps.<br><br>Havoc! <!--emo&:k--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':k'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>I still don't get the Day in Year part...is it the day in year times number of days in a year on EARTH?
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rick_hunter1
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# Posted: 3 Jan 2003 18:56
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Here's the deal.. WAAAY back in TOS days, Gene Roddenberry created a "futuristic" date method. Every episode he increased the "Stardate" a little bit. Soon, he realized that, during reruns, they wouldn't be played in order and thus the stardates would go up and down from week to week. So he stated tat the method of derriving a stardate was based on the ship's velocity and heading.
HAVOC - your theory doesn't wrok because in TOS days they only had 6-digit stardates such as "3108.43". the max was 4 digits in front of the dicimal. Even in the movies they were only in the 9000's.
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havoc
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# Posted: 4 Jan 2003 03:29
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<!--QuoteBegin--rick_hunter1+Jan. 03 2003,18:56--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (rick_hunter1 @ Jan. 03 2003,18:56)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->Here's the deal.. WAAAY back in TOS days, Gene Roddenberry created a "futuristic" date method. Every episode he increased the "Stardate" a little bit. Soon, he realized that, during reruns, they wouldn't be played in order and thus the stardates would go up and down from week to week. So he stated tat the method of derriving a stardate was based on the ship's velocity and heading.<br><br>HAVOC - your theory doesn't wrok because in TOS days they only had 6-digit stardates such as "3108.43". the max was 4 digits in front of the dicimal. Even in the movies they were only in the 9000's.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>*Thwaps Rick* The method is based on, TNG time! Back off! Stop following me around. <!--emo&:P--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/ton.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':P'><!--endemo--><br><br>I'll put a link here where you can download the programme, to do Stardates! Without having to put your computer in any direction or at warp 7. Thank you RICK! <!--emo&:P--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/ton.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':P'><!--endemo--><br><br>Havoc! <!--emo&:k--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':k'><!--endemo-->
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seele01
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# Posted: 9 Jan 2003 05:40
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there is a problem with all this. as stardates in TNG only have 5 digits before the decimal, not 6.
It's in the chronology and here it is word for word.
Editors' confession: In "Dark Page" (TNG), an entry in Lwaxana'a jiournal dated stardate 30260.1 is established to be during the year in which she got married, 2328. Unfortunately, under Star Trek the Next Genereation system of stardates (which allocates 1,000 stardate units per year, and puts the beginiing of 2364 at stardate 41000) the begininng of the year 2328 should be around stardate 5000. Star Trek technical consultant (and Chronology co-author) Mike Okuda decided that a four-digit stardate would be confusing since this sounds like an original series number, so he arbitrarily picked 30260, even though it is no consistent with stardate used elsewhere in the show.
So there ya go, 1000 units per year, so we could assume that a its roundabout 3 an earth day, but since not all races would have a same year length stardates were implemented as a standard.
Hope that helps clear it a bit
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