Are they doing something intentionally here?

Violence. Against me. Personally.

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.

A lot of the people who’ve made Star Trek over the years did not care about continuity from one episode to the next, let alone between series.

Personally I find long running media franchises with ongoing continuity fascinating. It’s like the Winchester Mystery House; a beautiful maze like construct with sudden dead ends, doors to no where, abandoned additions, inconsistent design, and occasional Shakespeare quotes. Except instead of one mourning woman directing all the construction, it’s been 56 years of countless writers, directors, production designers, and showrunners all contributing to Trek continuity.

It’s fun to see how everything fits together, and those spots where it does not. That’s just my take, anyway.

That’s right! Thanks for the correction.

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.

Nurse Chapel confirmed Doctor M’Benga’s story. You don’t think she would lie, do you?

It’s been a busy week, but I finally got a chance to read Defiant. There’s a lot crammed into the book, and most of it is fun.

• Personally I’m tired of Sisko and Worf’s bickering at this point. Their fallout seemed pretty flimsy when it happened, and here Worf’s dragging up a bunch of old problems from their time together on DS9 did not work for me.

• Similarly Tom and B’Elanna’s bickering didn’t really move the needle.

• I did like Sela, Doctor Crusher, and the Defiant’s unnamed Orion drug dealer/medic rushing to save Martok that’s good stuff.

• The highlight of the issue is definitely the Data Lore interactions. I especially liked their conversation as they run through the streets of Qo’noS incapacitating Red Path followers without even pausing. Data’s always had the potential to be so much scarier than he is, and it worked really well here.

Right? We all know that the best tool for blending in is squeaky black pleather fascist cosplay.

Yeah. Some of them are a lot of fun, too.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Second time. He was in the episode with the aliens trying to communicate with Uhura telepathically, causing her to hallucinate zombie Hemmer.