Screen Rant

  • Star Trek's stardates might look random, but they do have some meaning. 1 / 7

  • Roddenberry didn't want Star Trek pinned down to a time, so devised a new calendar. 2 / 7

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  • Stardates were 4 digits, decimal point and a number indicating a tenth of a day. 3 / 7

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  • These Stardates were further complicated when episodes were shown out of sequence. 4 / 7

    William Shatner as Captain Kirk on Star Trek TOS
  • TNG revolutionized the system, adding a century and season indicator to the time measure. 5 / 7

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  • Voyager and Deep Space Nine retained this system. 6 / 7

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  • However, the 2009 movie used something closer to the real-world calendar. 7 / 7

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