From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: Stardates--from the horse's mouth
Date: 6 Sep 92 18:26:14 GMT
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In article <1992Sep4.131716.3854@bnlux1.bnl.gov> schroede@bnlux1.bnl.gov (gary l. schroeder) writes:
<In article <1992Sep2.061437.2751@nntp.uoregon.edu> eisimps@cie.uoregon.edu (Eileen Simpson) writes:
<>In article <1992Sep1.144724.8956@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
<
<>>If the 4 in the stardates stands for 24th century, tehn what happens
<>>when ST:TNG gets to Season 10? (If that happens), and if not ST:TNG,
<>>ST:Ds9 then.
<
<
<>Actually, the staff writers from Paramount cut off questions about
<>Stardates at the seminar.  They expressly told us not to worry about the
<>technical stuff and to spend our time on plot and dialogue.  They seemed
<>quite bored by the questions even though the audience was curious.
<
<Of course they were bored.  I would've been bored by this kind of
<extraneous nonsense as well.  Who gives a flying Denebian Slime Devil?
<It's like asking "why did Geordi punch the key sequence
<yellow-yellow-green-blue at Engineering One in episode X, instead of the
<more technically consistant yellow-yellow-green-_red_?  Why?  Why?
<Huh?  I can't sleep at night until I find out!"
<
<When you're in a position to avail yourself of the opportunities that
<are presented by being in a Q and A forum with the show's producers, why
<would you focus on such trivialities?  Why not ask about the characters,
<the plots, new ideas?  Stardates and warp coil wrapping designs are mere
<window dressing.  They don't enhance the watchability of the show.  They
<don't contribute to the dramatic content.  They don't enhance the
<characters.
<
<I'm starting to think that it's meetings like this that give the
<production staff the idea that the audience actually wants to hear
<LaForge and Data go on and on and on about the hyperdynamic
<superheterodyne megaplastic field inverter inducer amplifier field
<strength modulator.  Now it all begins to make sense.  If they think the
<Trek audience demands explanations of stardate consistancy, then it's no
<wonder.
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