Category:Stardates

Stardates were orignally created as a fictional "modern calandar" on the Original Series so the captain can give a realistic sounding date. The original stardates had no rhyme or reason to them. When Star Trek: The Next Generation took to the air, the initial Stardate of 40759.5, in the Year 2363, was given for the launching of the Enterprise-D from Mars orbit. Each year, 1000 units were added to the past Stardate of January, so that January 2364 would be Stardate 41000.0.

The captain's log was an official record of a Federation Starship's journeys, recorded in the voice of the ship's commanding officer, usually her captain. These logs were regularly transmitted to Starfleet Command, in San Francisco, on Earth, along with the Ship's Log, Departmental Logs, and the personal logs (or diaries) of the ship's crew. Eventually, the recordings of logs made their way to Memory Alpha on Pluto, where they were stored for all time. (It is presumed that other libraries exist; Memory Beta was presumably on Vulcan, and Memory Gamma on Andoria.  Thus, duplicates of all the Federations records, literature, and music, were copied and kept in various locations, in order to preserve them for future generations.)  These libraries were able to be accessed via subspace radio; as the years went by, and a starship's logs were declassified, the records became available to all Federation citizens.

