“2373”: S.D. 500a0 to 509d9
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VOY “Basics” (Parts 1 & 2)

Wednesday 20th to Wednesday 27th June, 2373: S.D. 500a6 to 500b3

Estimated duration: 8 days
Chronology: I think there’s a stardate for the seventh day, S.D. 50032.7.
The tape box dates are S.D. 49700.0 for part one and S.D. 50032.7 for part two.
Continuity: When time splits in VOY “Shattered,” part of the ship experiences this time.

DS9 “Apocalypse Rising”

Twoday 5th to Oneday 11th Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd June, 2373: S.D. 500a3 to 500a9

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There’s a tape box S.D. 50013.9; I was able to use it in placing the story.
Continuity: The Federation agrees a temporary ceasefire with the Klingons.

Oneday 18th Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; Saturday 30th June, 2373: S.D. 500b6

According to my calculations, it’s Ha’mara. Once again, I’ve tried to make sure we don’t see it.

July 2373: S.D. 500b7 to 501x7

There has been no unusual activity in the Romulan Neutral Zone for nine months before “Star Trek: First Contact” (April 2374, “2373”), so it must start around now.

DS9 “The Ship”

Threeday 20th to Twoday 26th Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; Tuesday 3rd to Monday 9th July, 2373: S.D. 500b9 to 500c5

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50049.3.
The tape box date matches it.
Continuity: The Federation manages to capture a Dominion ship, and it’s the year before DS9 “A Time to Stand” (August 2374).

VOY “Sacred Ground”

Saturday 7th to Wednesday 11th July, 2373: S.D. 500c3 to 500c7

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50063.2.
The tape box date is identical.

DS9 “Looking for Par’Mach in All the Wrong Places”

Sevenday 31st to Twoday 33rd Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; Sunday 15th to Tuesday 17th July, 2373; 20th to 22nd batlh, 998 Q.B.: S.D. 500d1 to 500d3

Estimated duration: 3 days
Chronology: I used the tape box S.D. 50061.2 to place this story.
Continuity: Quark’s ex Grilka (from DS9 “House of Quark”) drops by. Yoshi won’t be born for at least another month. I make it very considerably longer. Worf and Dax start seeing each other.

Around Twoday 33rd Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; About Tuesday 17th July, 2373: S.D. 500d3

Two weeks before DS9 “Trials and Tribble-ations”, the Cardassians offer to return an Orb.

VOY “False Profits”

Wednesday 18th to Thursday 19th July, 2373: S.D. 500d4 to 500d5

Estimated duration: 2 days
Chronology: There are stardates for the first day, S.D. 50074, with entries at 50074.3 and 50074.5.
The tape box date is S.D. 50074.3.
Continuity: By the most amazing chance, the two Ferengi who got stuck at the other end of the Barzan wormhole in TNG “The Price” seven years ago (October 2366 so six years and nine months, by my calculations), are encountered by Voyager.

Mid-July 2373

Jake Sisko and Doctor Bashir attend a conference, just before DS9 “Nor the Battle to the Strong”.

DS9 “Nor the Battle to the Strong”

Sixday 37th to Threeday 41st Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; Saturday 21st to Wednesday 25th July, 2373: S.D. 500d7 to 501x1

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: A comment by Ben Sisko suggests that day after the last day of the story would be a Thursday, so I’ve fixed the days of the week to apply.
There’s a tape box stardate S.D. 50098.7 that I had no hope of using.
Continuity: Jake’s 18, and gets a kick-start to his career in journalism. Bashir’s on his way back from a conference. He’s particularly interested in prions, and they become a research project of his.

VOY “Flashback”

Monday 30th to Tuesday 31st July, 2373: S.D. 501x6 to 501x7

Estimated duration: 2 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50126.4.
The tape box date is the same.
Continuity: It’s about eighty years since “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (June 2293, so I make it 80 years and a month). The events in the past are more “recovered memories” than anything else. Like real life, it is best to assume that however plausible they may seem, they aren’t 100% accurate.

DS9 “Trials and Tribble-ations”

Oneday 46th Fivemonth, 9400 B.E.; Tuesday 31st July, 2373: S.D. 501x7

Estimated duration: A day
Chronology: The stardate is dictated by making this fit where it’s meant to.
The tape box date, S.D. 4523.7 applies to the previous century.
Continuity: It’s 105 years, 1 month and 12 days after TOS “The Trouble with Tribbles”, and I made sure it was. Cleaning up all the tribbles on the station is likely to take a while, though. No wonder they all end up going on holiday to Risa.

August 2373: S.D. 501x8 to 502a8

Seven months before DS9 “Soldiers of the Empire” (March 2374, “2373”), Rotarran’s record becomes one of unrelieved defeat.

Dulmer and Lucsley’s report on Captain Sisko is due, a month after DS9 “Trials and Tribble-ations”, so it could be early September, also.

VOY “The Chute”

Tuesday 7th to Sunday 12th August, 2373: S.D. 501y4 to 501y9

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for what I think is the third day, S.D. 50156.2.
The tape box date is the same.

Threeday 55th Fivemonth, 9400 to Fourday 1st Leaponemonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 9th to Friday 10th August, 2373: S.D. 501y6 to 501y7

The Gratitude Festival, according to my calculations.

VOY “Remember”

Friday 24th to Wednesday 29th August, 2373: S.D. 502a1 to 502a6

Actual stardates: Friday 24th August to Monday 3rd September, 2373: S.D. 502a1 to 502b1

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: There are stardates for what I think is the third day, S.D. 50203.1, and the last day, S.D. 50211.4. Unfortunately, all the internal evidence is that the story ends on the sixth day, not the tenth, so I’ve ignored the second stardate.
The tape box date is S.D. 50203.1.

About August 2373

Around a month before DS9 “Let He Who is Without Sin”, Fullarton and his New Essentialists set up on Risa.

September 2373: S.D. 502a9 to 502d8

Six months before DS9 “Soldiers of the Empire” (March 2374), the last bloodwine on Rotarran is drunk.

Fourteen months before VOY “Message in a Bottle” (November 2374; the placement with adjacent stories is the problem rather than the stardate), Voyager is officially declared lost.

Threeday 21st Leaponemonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 1st September, 2373: S.D. 502a9

Five days before DS9 “The Assignment”, Keiko entrusts Molly and her bonsai trees to O’Brien and goes on a trip to Bajor, where she’s possessed by a pah-wraith.

DS9 “The Assignment”

Oneday 26th to Fourday 29th Leaponemonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th September, 2373: S.D. 502b4 to 502b7

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: By broadcast order, this story should come immediately before DS9 “Trials and Tribble-ations”. I’ve moved it to after because it puts the story in September, meaning that O’Brien’s birthday is in the month he says it is!
Not surprisingly, the tape box S.D. 50124.3 isn’t one I could use.
Continuity: The first day is Miles O’Brien’s birthday. He says himself his birthday’s in September in DS9 “Whispers”. Molly O’Brien’s going to school (my dates suggest she’s just past her fifth birthday, and Miles is 41), but Keiko doesn’t seem to be involved in teaching any more. Rom gets to go on the day shift.

VOY “The Swarm”

Friday 14th to Wednesday 19th September, 2373: S.D. 502c2 to 502c7

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50252.3. After that, the overall length is based on it taking four days to sneak across hostile space, starting on the second day.
The tape box date is the same.

DS9 “Let He Who is Without Sin…”

Fiveday 2nd to Twoday 6th Onemonth, 9401 B.E.; Tuesday 18th to Saturday 22nd September, 2373: S.D. 502c6 to 502d0

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: The tape box S.D. 50136.7 wasn’t any help to me in placing the story, I think it’s far too early.
Continuity: Bashir and Leeta split up. She’s been spending a lot of time with Rom.

October 2373: S.D. 502d9 to 503z9

The Maquis raid the Cardassian colony on Panora, two months before DS9 “For the Uniform” (December 2373).

Fiveday 16th Onemonth, 9401 B.E.; Wednesday 3rd October, 2373: S.D. 503x1

Three days before DS9 “Things Past”, Odo, Garak, Sisko and Dax go to a space conference.

Early October 2373

Just before VOY “Future’s End”, B’Elanna Torres arranges a tennis tournament. Kathryn Janeway takes part and plays for the first time in nineteen years. She’s beaten in straight sets in her first match.

VOY “Future’s End” (Parts 1 & 2)

Thursday 4th October, 2373: S.D. 503x2

Estimated duration: A day, in the present
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the exact time they first encounter Captain Braxton’s timeship, S.D. 50312.5.
The tape box dates are the year 1996 for part one, and S.D. 50312.5 for part two.
Continuity: The main action of the story takes place in 1996.

DS9 “Things Past”

Oneday 19th to Fourday 22nd Onemonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 6th to Tuesday 9th October, 2373: S.D. 503x4 to 503x7

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box stardate S.D. 50144.5. I wasn’t able to use it after “adjusting” the placing of DS9 “The Assignment”.
Continuity: The main action of the story is a weird recovered-memory-dream thing of Odo’s, apparently set seven years before. According to my calculations, that’s sometime in 2366.

VOY “Warlord”

Monday 8th to Thursday 25th October, 2373: S.D. 503x6 to 503z3

Estimated duration: 18 days
Chronology: There are stardates for what I think are the third day, S.D. 50348.1, the sixth day, S.D. 50351.4 and the sixteenth day, S.D. 50361.7.
The tape box stardate is S.D. 50348.1.
Continuity: Kes decides she doesn’t like Neelix that much, but she’s been possessed by the spirit of an alien warlord at the time.

DS9 “The Ascent”

Fiveday 23rd to Oneday 33rd Onemonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 11th to Sunday 21st October, 2373: S.D. 503x9 to 503y9

Estimated duration: 11 days
Chronology: The story lasts at least nine days. I’ve added an extra couple of days for recovering in Sickbay, too.
There’s S.D. 50245.2 from the tape box, but it’s far too early for my purposes.
Continuity: Nog returns to Deep Space 9, and moves in with Jake. (Perhaps I could have phrased that better, but somehow I don’t want to change it.)

Late October 2373

Just before DS9 “Rapture”, Starfleet introduces new standard uniforms.

DS9 “Rapture”

Oneday 40th to Sevenday 46th Onemonth, 9401 B.E.; Monday 29th October to Sunday 4th November, 2373: S.D. 503z7 to 504a3

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There’s a tape box S.D. 50378.9 I’ve sort of used in placing the story.
Continuity: It’s the year before DS9 “Far Beyond the Stars” (December 2374). Doctor Bashir remembers doing the operation, so it still has to be the real one at this point. It’s also about six months before DS9 “In the Cards” (I have that in May 2374, “2373”, which is right). Kasidy is released from space prison, roughly six months after DS9 “For the Cause”; I have that in April 2373, “2372”, so I’m just about on schedule. Bajor is offered Federation membership, but declines on the advice of Ben Sisko.

VOY “The Q and the Grey”

Monday 29th October to Saturday 10th November, 2373: S.D. 503z7 to 504a9

Actual stardates: Sunday 14th to Friday 26th October, 2373: S.D. 503y2 to 503z4

Estimated duration: 13 days
Chronology: There is a stardate for the third day, S.D. 50384.2. After that, things go wrong because VOY “Warlord” uses up a lot of dates. It has to be the third day for the first stardate, because the supernovas don’t work otherwise. Unfortunately, the internal evidence is that the next date is intended for the eleventh day, but S.D. 50392.7 doesn’t work at all, so I’ve ignored the stardates completely, just to fit everything in.
The tape box date is S.D. 50384.2.
Continuity: VOY “Q2” (February 2378, “2377”, with the stardate placing it a week later, in the same month) suggests that Janeway last saw Q Junior four years ago, yet this is the only encounter we see, and it’s a year early, by my calculations, although it does work in “stardate years.”

Before November 2373

Over a year before DS9 “The Magnificent Ferengi” (November 2374), syrup of squill becomes impossible to get. The shortage is artificial. Also over a year before DS9 “The Magnificent Ferengi”, Ishka and the Nagus get together. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

November 2373: S.D. 504a0 to 504c9

Two months before DS9 “A Simple Investigation” (January 2374, “2373”), Felix has promised to send the holoprogram Queen’s Gambit to Bashir by now. What Changeling Bashir makes of it is anyone’s guess, although it might have arrived early enough for it still to be the real Bashir.

DS9 “The Darkness and the Light”

Sixday 52nd Onemonth to Fiveday 3rd Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Sunday 11th to Saturday 17th November, 2373: S.D. 504b0 to 504b6

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the last day, S.D. 50416.2.
The tape box stardate is the same.
Continuity: Kira says that Yoshi can’t be born in less than three weeks. She may well be fibbing a little, since I have his birth two weeks away. Once again, I’m pressed for time.

VOY “Macrocosm”

Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th November, 2373: S.D. 504b2 to 504b6

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: There’s a three-day trade mission to the Tak-Tak beforehand that we don’t see, making the stardate for the fourth day, S.D. 50425.1.
The tape box has the same stardate.
Continuity: In addition to his other duties, Neelix becomes Ship’s Ambassador. Part of the action in VOY “Shattered” is set at this time. Sometime between VOY “Macrocosm” and VOY “Alter Ego”, Voyager investigates an inversion nebula that’s referred to in both shows.

VOY “Fair Trade”

Sunday 18th to Wednesday 21st November, 2373: S.D. 504b7 to 504c0

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box S.D. 50437.8. I’ve used it to place the story.
Continuity: It’s a month before VOY “Unity” (January 2374, “2373”, but it’s a problem with the stardates in the story, not the overall placement), based on being at the edge of the Nekrit Expanse. I think it’s two, and don’t see how it could be less.

Oneday 6th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Tuesday 20th November, 2373: S.D. 504b9

According to my calculations, Doctor Julian Bashir is abducted from where he’s attending a burns conference on Meezan III, sent to a prison camp and replaced by a Changeling. There is a problem with his uniform being “old pattern,” suggesting he was kidnapped before DS9 “Rapture”, but my interpretation of the dates, and the fact that the real Bashir remembers what happened in that story, means that it must be later. My own theory is that he’s given the uniform by the Dominion prison, so the Changeling can take his entire luggage. He’ll wake up in the camp the next morning.

Around Threeday 8th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 22nd November, 2373: S.D. 504c1

Michael Eddington and Rebecca Sullivan get married, two weeks before his capture in DS9 “For the Uniform”, according to DS9 “Blaze of Glory”.

DS9 “The Begotten”

Fiveday 10th to Fiveday 17th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Sunday 25th November to Sunday 2nd December, 2373: S.D. 504c4 to 504d1

Estimated duration: 8 days
Chronology: Odo has been looking after the baby Changeling for a week, so the story must be slightly longer.
There’s a tape box S.D. 50430.1. I had to ignore it, because I’m really tightly constrained by DS9 “The Darkness and the Light”, Bashir’s abduction and DS9 “For the Uniform”.
Continuity: It’s less than a month before DS9 “In Purgatory’s Shadow” (December 2373), which I’ve managed. Unfortunately, it’s also supposed to be fourteen months before DS9 “Time’s Orphan” (April 2375, “2374”). I make it sixteen months, and don’t see how it could be two months less, either. Yoshi is born and the Changeling dies late on the seventh day, Around 24:00 on Fourday 16th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; the afternoon of Saturday 1st December, 2373: S.D. 50430.6. Odo regains his ability to change shape.

VOY “Alter Ego”

Thursday 29th November to Wednesday 12th December, 2373: S.D. 504c8 to 505x1

Actual stardates: Monday 19th November to Sunday 2nd December, 2373: S.D. 504b8 to 504d1

Estimated duration: 14 days
Chronology: There are stardates for what I think are the third day, S.D. 50460.3 and the fourteenth day, S.D. 50471.3. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make this story fit the stardates. I ran out of them!
The tape box date is S.D. 50460.3.
Continuity: Mister Vorik begins dropping hints that he’d like to mate with B’Elanna.

DS9 “For the Uniform”

Twoday 21st to Oneday 27th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 6th to Wednesday 12th December, 2373: S.D. 504d5 to 505x1

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There are stardates for the first day, S.D. 50485.2 and the fourth day, S.D. 50488.2.
The tape box date is S.D. 50485.2.
Continuity: It’s eight months since DS9 “For the Cause” (April 2373, “2372”, so I’m right, this time). Eddington is recaptured.

Sunday 16th December, 2373: S.D. 505x5

The night before VOY “Coda” is Amateur Night. Harry Kim plays his clarinet, Tuvok recites Vulcan poetry and Captain Janeway dances “the dying swan.”

VOY “Coda”

Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th December, 2373: S.D. 505x6 to 505x8

Estimated duration: 3 days
Chronology: The exact duration of this story is open to doubt, since a lot of it happens in Janeway’s head. There’s a stardate for the last day, S.D. 50518.6.
The tape box date is the same.

DS9 “In Purgatory’s Shadow”

Sevenday 33rd to Fourday 37th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Wednesday 19th to Sunday 23rd December, 2373: S.D. 505x8 to 505y2

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box S.D. 50560.1. I’ve not really used it, because it implies a much shorter story than I’ve guessed at.
Continuity: Yoshi is less than a month old. There’s a suggestion that Kira carried him for seven months. A Bajoran pregnancy is supposed to last five; but seven is just about what my calculations give as the gap between DS9 “Body Parts” (May 2373, “2372”) and DS9 “The Begotten” (very early December 2373). Sisko makes a reference to “a recent Borg attack”. This is usually taken as a reference to “Star Trek: First Contact”, but my stardate-based calculations means that the film won’t be happening for another four months (April 2374, “2373”). So your guess is as good as mine about what it was.

DS9 “By Inferno’s Light”

Fiveday 38th to Threeday 43rd Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Monday 24th to Saturday 29th December, 2373: S.D. 505y3 to 505y8

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: The story picks up directly from DS9 “In Purgatory’s Shadow”. There’s a stardate for the what I think is the second day, S.D. 50564.2. I think it’s the fourth day when the prisoners make their escape, and that must be the 37th day of Bashir’s imprisonment.
The tape box stardate matches the one in the show.
Continuity: The Cardassians become part of the Dominion. The Khitomer Accords are reinstated, and Klingons are permanently assigned to the station. The Changeling Julian Bashir is exposed.

VOY “Blood Fever”

Friday 28th December, 2373 to Monday 1st January, 2374, “2373”; 21st to 25th T’keKhuti, 8993 V.E.: S.D. 505y7 to 505z1

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: There are stardates for the first day, S.D. 50537.2 and the fifth day, S.D. 50541.6.
The tape box has S.D. 50537.2.
Continuity: It’s Ensign Vorik’s first pon farr. Mister Tuvok has an artificial elbow. Voyager has been in the Delta Quadrant for two years. I make it two years and two months. Right at the end of the story, they find a dead Borg.

DS9 “Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”

Fourday 44th to Twoday 49th Twomonth, 9401 B.E.; Monday 31st December, 2373 to Saturday 5th January, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 505z0 to 505z5

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box stardate S.D. 50590.1 that I’ve used to place the story.
Continuity: Bashir is working on his prion project. Since he doesn’t work on it for five months before DS9 “In the Cards” (May 2374, “2373”), this must be the last chance he gets before then; although it’s a short five months by my calculations. Doctor Zimmerman says he’s not left Jupiter Station for four years in VOY “Life Line” (May 2377, “2376”). This must be the time, although I (as seems to be usual) make it a short four years; three years and four months to be exact. It also doesn’t really jibe with Haley’s suggestion that he cancelled a lecture on Vulcan on S.D. 53292: Tuesday 28th September, 2376, since she says he was off Jupiter Station then, too. Rather strangely, it’s only 200 years since the Eugenics Wars, but that reference appears to be a mistake. I make it a good 300 years, whether you accept my manipulation of the dates or not. Julian Bashir’s father goes to prison for two years. Leeta’s going off to be Doctor Zimmerman’s own personal dabo girl, until Rom finally gets up the courage to ask her to stay. O’Brien says Bashir will have to stand further back when they play darts from now on.

Around December 2373

About a year before DS9 “Honor Among Thieves” (December 2374), a Starfleet officer working in weather control on Risa begins working for the Orion Syndicate, too.

January 2374, “2373”: S.D. 505z1 to 506c1

Just before VOY “Unity”, Chakotay and Ensign Kaplan conduct a scouting mission in the Nekrit Expanse.

DS9 “A Simple Investigation”

Fiveday 11th to Oneday 14th Threemonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th January, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506b4 to 506b7

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: One day is a Saturday. I think it’s the third day of the story. There’s a genuinely “out of nowhere” S.D. 50606.6 that I’ve effectively ignored because it doesn’t fit with the days of the week at all. I also don’t know where on earth it’s from.
The tape box date is S.D. 50626.6.
Continuity: Julian has a new holoprogram The Queen’s Gambit. It was promised to him two months ago, but it’s not clear whether it’s just arrived, or was sent while Changeling Bashir was on the station. Odo has sex with a solid for the first time.

VOY “Unity”

Wednesday 30th January to Sunday 3rd February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506c0 to 506c4

Actual stardates: Thursday 24th January to Sunday 3rd February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506b4 to 506c4

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: There is a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50614.2. Unfortunately, that’s followed by a stardate for what should be the third day, since the next day will be three days since the shuttle crash that opens the show, making that the fourth. S.D. 50622.4 is the date I’ve used, and ignored the earlier one.
The tape box date is S.D. 50614.2.
Continuity: Voyager will be in the Nekrit Expanse for a month.

DS9 “Business as Usual”

Oneday 21st to Sixday 33rd Threemonth, 9401 B.E.; Monday 4th to Saturday 16th February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506c5 to 506d6

Estimated duration: 13 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box stardate S.D. 50675.5 that I’ve used to help place the story.

Mid-February 2374, “2373”

Just before VOY “Darkling”, Voyager visits an outpost of the Mikhal Travellers.

VOY “Darkling”

Tuesday 12th to Friday 15th February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506d3 to 506d6

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50693.2.
The tape box date is the same.
Continuity: Kes is three. I’m right, but I suspect not for any of the right reasons. Kes has dumped Neelix, and found herself a new boyfriend, at least temporarily.

Around Friday 15th February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506d6

About three weeks before VOY “Rise”, the asteroid bombardment starts.

Sunday 17th February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 506d8

On S.D. 50698, Harry Kim is infected with a Tiresian retrovirus on an away mission, the vorilium-collecting mission suggested in VOY “Darkling”. We find out about the infection in VOY “Favorite Son”.

DS9 “Ties of Blood and Water”

Oneday 35th to Sevenday 41st Threemonth, 9401 B.E.; Tuesday 19th to Monday 25th February, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507x0 to 507x6

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There’s a stardate for what I think is the third day, S.D. 50712.5.
The tape box has the rather mystifying S.D. 50689.7.
Continuity: Tekeny Ghemor dies. Dax has known Kira for five years. I make it a rather short five years.

Threeday 44th Threemonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 28th February 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507x9

Two days before DS9 “Ferengi Love Songs”, Quark’s bar is closed due to an infestation of Cardassian voles.

DS9 “Ferengi Love Songs”

Fiveday 46th to Fourday 52nd Threemonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 2nd to Friday 8th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507y1 to 507y7

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: I’ve ignored the tape box S.D. 50701.2, because it would move the story out of sequence with DS9 “Ties of Blood and Water”.
Continuity: Rom and Leeta announce their engagement, and Quark gets his licence back.

VOY “Rise”

Friday 8th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507y7

Estimated duration: A day
Chronology: The tape box S.D. 50567.4 had to be ignored, since it seems to be out of sequence.

49th a’qeylIS, 999 Q.B.; Fourday 52nd Threemonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 9th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507y8

Three days before DS9 “Soldiers of the Empire”, B’Moth starts a cruise along the Cardassian border.

Sunday 10th March 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507y9

Launch of Prometheus on S.D. 50749.5, according to VOY “Message in a Bottle”.

DS9 “Soldiers of the Empire”

1st to 6th jo’voS, 999 Q.B.; Sevenday 1st to Fiveday 6th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Tuesday 12th to Sunday 17th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507z1 to 507z6

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: I think the fourth day is the 53rd day of the Year of Kahless 999, 4th jo’voS, 999 Q.B.; Threeday 4th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Friday 15th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 50744. Not entirely by chance, it is.
There’s a tape box date S.D. 50839.1. I’ve ignored it, because not only does it not fit with my ideas, it doesn’t match up with the stardated stories either.
Continuity: Doctor Bashir is acting as the intelligence officer on the station. Worf joins the House of Martok.

VOY “Favorite Son”

Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 507z1 to 507z3

Estimated duration: 3 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for what I think is the second day, S.D. 50732.4.
The tape box date is S.D. 50589.1, although why it’s different I can’t say.

VOY “Before and After”

Around Thursday 21st March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508a0

Estimated duration: One day in the present, 9 years and 1 week altogether
Chronology and Continuity: Defy any explanation I can give. I’ve put all the stuff about Kes and the Krenim in a separate article. I can’t make sense of any of it.
The tape box date is S.D. 50601.9

Sevenday 15th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Wednesday 27th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508a6

A week before DS9 “Children of Time”, Kira and Shakaar visit the Kenda Shrine on Bajor. It turns out to be a bad move on Shakaar’s part, because Kira says the Prophets tell them to split up, and they do.

Oneday 16th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 28th March, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508a7

Also a week before DS9 “Children of Time”, Defiant begins a seven-day mission into the Gamma Quadrant.

Around March 2374, “2373”

About two months before DS9 “In the Cards” (May 2374, “2373”), Kandra Vilk leaves Deep Space 9 to settle on a safer, neutral planet near Coridan.

DS9 “Children of Time”

Oneday 23rd to Threeday 25th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508b4 to 508b6

Estimated duration: 3 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50814.2.
The tape box date is the same.
Continuity: It’s over a year before DS9 “His Way”(March 2375, “2374”), so I missed that. It’s also supposed to be a month before DS9 “A Call to Arms”. I have that in May 2374, “2373”, so I’ve managed it. O’Brien is making Molly a doll’s house, because it’s “nearly her birthday.” Once again, that’s an unmitigated disaster. Molly’s fifth birthday was on Sunday 26th August, 2373: S.D. 50253 by my calculations. So her sixth won’t be for another four months. Since I’ve never had any success in making the O’Brien children’s ages make any sense at all (whatever I’ve tried) I’m just looking the other way. Or maybe Miles thinks the doll’s house is going to take several months to build.

DS9 “Blaze of Glory”

Oneday 30th to Sixday 35th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Friday 12th to Wednesday 17th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508c2 to 508c7

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box stardate S.D. 50862.3 that I’ve sort of used to place the story.
Continuity: Michael Eddington dies, and that’s the end of the Maquis. It’s also difficult to see how Thanksgiving in 2372 could be “last year,” unless I rely on “stardate years.”

Twoday 31st Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 13th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508c3

The first Dominion convoy passes through the Wormhole. I’ve made them Bajoran weeks, not least because the Earth weeks are a lot easier to work out, if you want to use them instead.

Twoday 38th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 20th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508d0

The second Dominion convoy passes through the Wormhole.

“Star Trek: First Contact”

Tuesday 23rd to Wednesday 24th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508d3 to 508d4

Estimated duration: 2 days in the present
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50893.5.
Continuity: It’s supposed to be nearly six years since TNG “The Best of Both Worlds” (June 2367, “2366” to “2367”). My calculations make it nearly seven. Most of the main action in this story takes place in 2063. USS Defiant is heavily damaged, but salvageable.

VOY “Real Life”

Tuesday 23rd to Friday 26th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508d3 to 508d6

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50863.2. The second day is supposed to be a Wednesday, and as blind chance would have it, it is.
The tape box date is S.D. 50634.2.

Twoday 45th Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Sunday 28th April, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508d8

The third Dominion convoy passes through the Wormhole, as determined by DS9 “Call to Arms”.

VOY “Distant Origin”

Monday 29th April to Thursday 2nd May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 508d9 to 509a2

Estimated duration: 4 days
Chronology: I used the tape box S.D. 50899.1 to place the story.

DS9 “Empok Nor”

Fiveday 48th to Twoday 52nd Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Wednesday 1st to Sunday 5th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509a1 to 509a5

Estimated duration: 5 days
Chronology: There’s a tape box stardate for this story, S.D. 50901.7, which has helped me to place it.
Continuity: It’s the year before DS9 “Rocks and Shoals” when Garak captures Nog. I have cheated mercilessly, and made it Bajoran years and “stardate years,” because I think that story is in August this year.

Twoday 52nd Fourmonth, 9401 B.E.; Sunday 5th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509a5

The fourth Dominion convoy passes through the Wormhole.

DS9 “In the Cards”

Fourday 54th to Fourmonth to Sixday 1st Fivemonth, 9401, 9401 B.E.; Tuesday 7th to Thursday 9th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509a7 to 509a9

Estimated duration: 3 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for what I think is the third day, S.D. 50929.4.
The tape box date matches it.
Continuity: Morn buys the picture of a bullfight that’s part of the plot in DS9 “Who Mourns for Morn?” It’s supposed to be five months since Bashir last worked on his prion project, but I think that was in early January, so it’s only four. Nog retrieves Kukalaka the teddy for Bashir, from Leeta. It’s six months since DS9 “The Rapture” (November 2373), which I managed, somehow.

Sevenday 2nd Fivemonth, 9401 B.E.; Saturday 11th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509b1

Keiko, Molly and Yoshi O’Brien go back to Earth, two days before DS9 “Call to Arms” starts.

VOY “Displaced”

Sunday 12th to Sunday 19th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509b2 to 509b9

Estimated duration: 8 days
Chronology: The first disappearance is at 11:32, there’s a stardate for 12 hours later, S.D. 50912.4. My theories suggest that this is wrong, and that the stardate at 23:32 would be 50912.9. There’s also a stardate for the eighth day, S.D. 50929.6. Strictly speaking, it might be the eighteenth day, but the story doesn’t seem that long.
The tape box date is S.D. 50912.4.

DS9 “Call to Arms”

Twoday 4th to Sevenday 9th Fivemonth, 9401 B.E.; Monday 13th to Saturday 18th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509b3 to 509b8

Estimated duration: 6 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for what I think is the third day, S.D. 50975.2. The next Dominion convoy is due in five days, so the gap between them is exactly a week long.
The tape box date is S.D. 50941.2.
Continuity: The fifth Dominion convoy passes through the Wormhole on the first day, and it’s the fifth in as many weeks. It’s a month since DS9 “Children of Time” (April 2374, “2373”), which I managed. It’s supposed to be “weeks” since DS9 “In the Cards”, but I ran out of time, so it’s a few days. Rom and Leeta get married. Dax agrees to marry Worf. The station is handed over to the Dominion. It’s three months before DS9 “A Time to Stand” (August 2374), and you’ll see I’ve struggled to manage that.

Monday 20th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509c0

Captain Janeway’s birthday, as stated very clearly in VOY “Year of Hell”. You can see that it falls in a very unlikely place in relation to it. I’ve just had to accept that this story is the one that can’t possibly work if stardates are the way I say they are.

VOY “Worst Case Scenario”

Tuesday 21st to Monday 27th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509c1 to 509c7

Estimated duration: A week
Chronology: There’s a stardate for what I think is the third day, S.D. 50953.4.
The tape box date is S.D. 50971.5.
Continuity: It’s over a year since Seska died in VOY “Basics” (June 2373). I haven’t managed that, by a good month.

Twoday 18th Fivemonth, 9401 B.E.; Tuesday 28th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509c8

According to my calculations, it will be Ha’mara. As usual, I’ve tried to make it sometime we don’t see.

VOY “Latent Image”

Wednesday 29th to Thursday 30th May, 2374, “2373”: S.D. 509c9 to 509d0

Estimated duration: 2 days
Chronology: There’s a stardate for the first day, S.D. 50979.
Continuity: Doesn’t work terribly well in these flashback sequences. I’ve placed this by stardate. We don’t find out anything about Ensign Ahni Jetal until the main part of VOY “Latent Image” in November 2375.

Around May 2374, “2373”

Kellin the Remura begins hunting a runaway, almost a year before VOY “Unforgettable” (April 2375, “2374”).

VOY “Scorpion” (Parts 1 & 2)

Sunday 2nd to Wednesday 12th June, 2374, “2373” to “2374”: S.D. 509d3 to 510a3

Estimated duration: 11 days
Chronology: There are stardates for what I think is the second day, S.D. 50984.3 and the eleventh day by my guess, S.D. 51003.7. Strictly speaking, it could be the twentieth day, but that would be stretching the story by quite a lot.
There’s a tape box date for part one, S.D. 51001.2, and it’s the last one. The box design changed for both “Star Trek: Voyager” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and the stardates weren’t on them.
Continuity: It’s supposed to be three months since VOY “Unity” (February 2374, “2373”, although the problems are with the internal stardates, not the placement). I make it four months. 7of9 joins the crew.


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by StrauchiusStrauchius on 06 Oct 2010 19:01, last updated on 02 Feb 2022 09:09