Interesting! If the stardate cycle isn’t aligned with the calendar year, that would make sense (from a production perspective) since the broadcast seasons aren’t aligned to it either. The thought did cross my mind but I’ve never seen it commented upon elsewhere, so thanks for the details.
I doubt Voyager’s clocks would be that much out of sync (especially once contact was re-established with the Federation, as that would reduce any offset to minutes or hours at most), so I usually put down that degree of inaccuracy to the writing (I seriously doubt the writers did anything other than just tried to evenly progress the dates between the start and end of the season).
For sure, I seriously doubt it was at all intentional, but the fact that the offset matches up as well as it between the two examples is very lucky for any of us foolish enough to try to take these things seriously. I definitely think about these things too much.
Interesting! If the stardate cycle isn’t aligned with the calendar year, that would make sense (from a production perspective) since the broadcast seasons aren’t aligned to it either. The thought did cross my mind but I’ve never seen it commented upon elsewhere, so thanks for the details.
I doubt Voyager’s clocks would be that much out of sync (especially once contact was re-established with the Federation, as that would reduce any offset to minutes or hours at most), so I usually put down that degree of inaccuracy to the writing (I seriously doubt the writers did anything other than just tried to evenly progress the dates between the start and end of the season).
For sure, I seriously doubt it was at all intentional, but the fact that the offset matches up as well as it between the two examples is very lucky for any of us foolish enough to try to take these things seriously. I definitely think about these things too much.