something i don't get about star trek?

Question

in the first season of st
they can travel the entire galaxy in like 3 days
and in TNG
it takes WAY over 200 years to do that
annnd
pretty much they just jumped two hundred years in the past for no reason
went from stardate 1530 somrthing
to 1312

Answer 1

maybe it works the same as our 'b.c.' years. They went backwards, too.

Answer 2

If you pay attention you will notice that they never traveled the whole galaxy in the original Star Trek. They traveled through what part of the galaxy that they had mapped. In TNG they had more of the galaxy mapped, but still not all of it.

As far as Stardates go, they are fairly straight forward. You take the Gregorian calendar and take one number for each day of the year. The end of year One on the Gregorian calendar would be Stardate 365. If you'll notice in TNG the stardates have more numbers in them so more days have passed by since the original. I don't have the episodes in front of me so I can't quote exact numbers, but the Original series would have a stardate like 8643.2 and TNG would have a stardate like 97468.2. The decimal points were like a replacement for time zones. The day was divided up into ten time periods so you wouldn't have an Eastern time zone or Central time zone. The whole Earth would be in the same decimal period to save confusion.

Answer 3

Stardates aren' t yrs.

Stardates are a means of specifying absolute dates in the fictional Star Trek universe. They are decimal numbers, usually rounded to a single decimal place, which replace absolute Gregorian calendar dates. The in-universe behavior of stardates is much less transparent than that of any known calendar because out-of-universe writers chose the numbers more or less at random, depending on the era of Star Trek in question. One of the stated out-of-universe reasons for stardates was the need to establish the events in the series as taking place far into the future without tying the episodes down to a particular date.[1]

Few explanations have seriously tried to justify stardates or attempt to remain consistent with all the evidence from the shows. Most of those explanations are mere creative inventions that give little reason to be universally accepted. For example, Franz Joseph, the author of The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Star Trek Blueprints, adopted the convention of writing a Gregorian calendar date in the superficial form of a stardate, so that, for example, "stardate 9802.13" represents February 13, 1998.[2]

Answer 4

You'll find all of the Star Trek series are full of errors like the one you pointed out. Half the fun is spotting the mistakes, and half baked scientific concepts.

Answer 5

Simple, the galaxy is EXPANDING so it would take longer for travel. EVERYTHING takes longer, getting on an airplane, doing your taxes. Just like it takes longer to learn history because there is SO much more of it than there use to be!

Answer 6

As for speed, they use a ficntional idea called warp speed, which is faster than light.