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I don't understand this star date....

posted 10 years ago by MOOVYZ
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At the beginning of this film the Captain says "Star Date 9522.1" or something similar.

Now I've read many explanation about dates and times but none of what I read seem to explain this one. Some explanations have said the date always starts with a 4 signifying the actual date 24**.

But I am lost on this one. Can someone please explain and my apologies if this has already been discussed here... too many pages to go through.

"I think that boy's cheese slid off his cracker" The Green Mile

[–] Inspector81 10 years ago

Stardates don't have any meaning, they're just made up numbers by the screenwriters.

[–] MOOVYZ 10 years ago

According to die hard fans they do have meaning.

"I think that boy's cheese slid off his cracker" The Green Mile

[–] Inspector81 10 years ago

I am a die hard fan and there has never been any official meaning for what stardates are, they're just meaningless numbers made up by a screenwriter to be part of a Captain's log exposition.

[–] MOOVYZ 10 years ago

I'm sorry, but you are wrong about them. In the link below, you'll see that with the exception of the original series, where they were basically meaningless (but not completely) there has always been a devised meaning to the dates.

But the original post I made on this varies from this link's description and that's why I was asking for opinions on why.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardate

"I think that boy's cheese slid off his cracker" The Green Mile