Ok … so I’m not on top of stardates in Trek so I’ve been ignoring this … but, and sorry for my ignorance … what’s up with the startdates in this season? Are they doing something intentionally here?
But also, as others have pointed out, in TOS there was very little rhyme or reason to the Stardates, and SNW seems to have embraced that. It’s actually seems to be less non-sequential this season than in the first.
My personal headcanon is that after the Klingon, Starfleet implemented a sort of two factor authentication to the stardates so they’re somewhat randomized, and can’t be properly pieced together with the proper “key” that lets you know the actual sequence of events.
in TOS there was very little rhyme or reason to the Stardates
The explanation Roddenberry gave was that a stardate was dependent not just on time but location, but the real world reason was that the episodes were aired out of production order.
Roddenberry’s memo about stardates being the episode producer’s birthday multiplied by the ship’s distance from Earth was a joke.
However even when you order the episode by production date the stardates still don’t line up. Even in season three where the episodes were aired in production order, the stardates still bounce around a bit.