tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri May 17 11:17:27 2002
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Re: What does the numbers in the stardate stand for?
The Star Trek Encyclopedia CD-ROM defines "stardate" thusly:
"Timekeeping system used to provide a standard galactic temporal reference,
compensating for relativistic time dilation, warp-speed displacement, and
other peculiarities of interstellar space travel. (To those interested in
the minutiae of stardate computation ... we shamelessly refer you to
Appendix I in the 1996 edition of our book, _Star Trek Chronology: The
History of the Future_, by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda.)"
Krankor:
> > cha'SaD wejvatlh SochmaH cha'. As for how to do the .8, I'm not sure
> > we know for sure (someone please correct me if I've missed something
> > on this topic).
Use {vI'} "decimal point [KGT]" when reading out stardates, warp factors,
measurements, etc., and {DoD} "mark" for navigation coordinates.
SuStel:
>I believe we've seen exactly that in one of Okrand's Skybox card
>translations of a Stardate! See below for an example of how it is done. I
>don't know if this applies to regular numbers. (You don't say "Stardate two
>thousand, three hundred seventy-two point eight," you say "Stardate
>twenty-three seventy-two point eight" or "Stardate two three seven two point
>eight." The Klingon seems to do the same thing, at least in Okrand's
>example.)
The example is from SkyBox card S33 ("Cloaking Device") discussing Gen.
Chang's experimental Bird of Prey in ST6, destroyed at Khitomer:
HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'
[This ship was demonstrated on Stardate 9521.6 but it was destroyed.]
Here the numbers are read out individually: "stardate nine five two one
point six".
[FYI: The last sentence of the English translation was omitted when the
card was printed, so I've supplied my own rough version.]
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons