Star Trek Is Not In Chronological Order
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A casual Star Trek watcher may not have noticed this, but the episodes are not actually in chronological order. Gene Roddenberry came up with an explanation for fans, saying that the time is adjusted relatively depending on the Enterprise’s speed and space warp capability.
“It has little relationship to Earth’s time as we know it,” Roddenberry said, “Therefore stardate would be one thing at one point int he galaxy and something else again at another point in the galaxy. I’m not quite sure what I meant by that explanation, but a lot of people have indicated it makes sense. If so, I’ve been lucky again.”
