Chuck and Ken,
Danny is spot-on with his explanation of how Stardates worked with the
writers of the original series (and all later series). The show’s creators
wanted to come up with a way to allocate for the passage of time when traveling
at the speed of light or faster — Interestingly enough it was determined that
no starship ever did go faster than the speed of light, but was merely
traveling through a warped space “bubble” created by the ship’s engines (but
that’s a whole other discussion.)
As to the use of Stardates, many Trekkers and Trekkies who write their
own stories or keep their own logs, use a “lazy” star date system using the
date itself, today being Stardate 201403.07. Personally, this method always
irked me — a numeric decimal system where the the two numbers to the left of
the decimal point can never go beyond 12 and the numbers to the right of the
decimal point never going beyond 31.
So to answer Ken’s question, I devised a new way and any Stardate on my
blog can be calculated back to an Gregorian “Earth Date”. Hence, today is
Stardate 11418.1.
The first number, 1, represents the number of centennials after the
first centennial in which man has travelled into space. 0 would be 1900-1999, 1
would be years 2000-2099, 2 would be years 2100-2199 and so on.
The next two numbers, 14, represents the year in that centennial -
2014.
The last two numbers and the decimal place represent the percentage of
the year that has passed. In this case, March 7 is 18.1% into the calendar
year.
So, my birthday was Stardate 6643.3. September 11 was Stardate 10169.6.
The day I commissioned my C&C 37+ as the Enterprise-B was Stardate 10544.7.
And yes, I’m well aware that if I used my brain for something more
worthwhile, we could have world peace and the end of all diseases by now.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log
On Mar 7, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Ken Heaton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'd like to know that too.. It would make searching back issues of Edd' Blog
> simpler... ;-)
>
> Ken H.
>
>
> On 7 March 2014 00:46, Chuck S <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Edd,
> I was 12 years old when Star Trek, originally aired. It really was ground
> breaking with a diverse crew at a time when civil rights was great bunch of
> characters and the women were always dreamy vixens. Really liked the Next
> Generation where Patrick Stewart played Jean Luc Picard like he was
> Hornblower, another icon of sailing. And the women were even more amazing.
> Enterprise was upgraded too.
>
> One thing I never figured out and wanted to ask somebody; Is there any logic
> in the "Captain's Star Date" numbers?
>
> Chuck
> Resolute
> 1990 C&C 34R
> Atlantic City, NJ
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