Digital Nightfall on 5/12/2007 at 08:13
Like how in Star Trek The Next Generation was actually something like 100 years in the future, making it about 5 generations later ... but I guess Star Trek the Fifth Generation was a confusing title.
Bugs on 5/12/2007 at 11:42
Eh, isn't TNG meant to mean the generation after the original series? Was that really 100 years after?
Digital Nightfall on 5/12/2007 at 11:49
It's not! I don't know the exact number (not a HUGE trek nerd, just a big one) but it's four enterprises later. It's not even enterprise #2!
So "generation" is pretty much meaningless as far as our culture is concerned anyway.
Matthew on 5/12/2007 at 12:30
Well, 'Bones' McCoy is featured in TNG's opening episode and he's over one hundred years old by that point.
Scots Taffer on 5/12/2007 at 13:02
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
It's not! I don't know the exact number (not a HUGE trek nerd, just a big one) but it's
four enterprises later. It's not even enterprise #2!
That's just the iterations of the ship itself though, not an indication of timelines or anything else. Picard et al went through NC-1701D and E. All it takes is a left instead of a right too close to a star...
Papy on 5/12/2007 at 14:53
The first enterprise was commissioned in 2245, but Kirk wasn't its first captain (Robert April, then Pike, then Kirk). It was destroyed in 2285.
The second (NCC-1701-A) was commissioned in 2286 (although it was first named Yorktown) and assigned to Kirk (I guess we all know the circumstances so I don't have to explain).
I don't have a date for the third. Guess I fail my nerd exam...
The fourth was commissioned in 2344.
As for the fifth (NCC-1701-D) it was commissioned in 2363.
BTW, sorry if I used English, but my Klingon is kind of rusty.
henke on 5/12/2007 at 18:26
As if a discussion about the engine of a game that's not to be released for years to come isn't nerdy enough; you people manage to derail it into something even nerdier.
SubJeff on 5/12/2007 at 18:50
Quote Posted by Papy
Guess I fail my nerd exam...
No, I don't suppose you really did.
failure2comply on 5/12/2007 at 21:43
Quote Posted by henke
As if a discussion about the engine of a game that's not to be released for years to come isn't nerdy enough; you people manage to derail it into something even nerdier.
:)
Scots Taffer on 5/12/2007 at 23:20
Quote Posted by Papy
The first enterprise was commissioned in 2245, but Kirk wasn't its first captain (Robert April, then Pike, then Kirk). It was destroyed in 2285.
The second (NCC-1701-A) was commissioned in 2286 (although it was first named Yorktown) and assigned to Kirk (I guess we all know the circumstances so I don't have to explain).
I don't have a date for the third. Guess I fail my nerd exam...
The fourth was commissioned in 2344.
As for the fifth (NCC-1701-D) it was commissioned in 2363.
BTW, sorry if I used English, but my Klingon is kind of rusty.
Did you wipe the dust off your Star Trek encyclopedia for that one (that you most likely got for free when signing up to a sci-fi and fantasy book club when you were 15) or were those dates already memorised, along with the majority of Klingon diction?
In any case, didn't Kirk trash an Enterprise in Wrath of Khan?
