Earth to Malcor III

[Lucky]

It seems like The Best Of Both Worlds to First Contact would be a goot way to judge the disyences a Federation ship travels, and how fast.

RIKER: And Earth Station McKinley has advised they're ready to begin refitting the Enterprise.

At the end of TBOBW the Enterprise-D is in the Sol System being repaired.

Captain's Log, stardate 44002.3. Repairs are complete, and the Enterprise is warping to rendezvous with Starfleet at Wolf three five nine. Communications from the site of battle have been cut off, possibly by Borg interference.

The latest Stardate mentioned in TBOBW is 44002.3

TROI: We come from a federation of planets. Captain Picard is from a planet called Earth, which is over two thousand light years from here. I'm from another planet called Betazed.

The Stardate of which First Contact takes place is unknown, but events took took place between stardates 44502.7 and 44614.8

There are about 14 missions carried out by the Enterprise-D 4X01 and 4X15

Here is the problems I am having:

1) Stardates don't make much sense to me. I can't quite figure out how much time the dates represent?

2) I'm not sure how to determine how far the Enterprise-D traveled? The Enterprise-D seems to have stayed in Federation space for the most part.

Help?

[Mike DiCenso]

Simple solution; don't go by stardates, go by airdates. The writers and production staff were making a more or less one season equals one year of time, unless stated otherwise in the episode(s).

If you do a search for "Malcor III" here, you'll find that it's already been worked out that it took 5 months time to get from Earth at the end of "Family" to the events of "First Contact", which means a minimum of 4,800 c. And that assumes that the E-D did nothing since leaving Earth except hard travel in a straight line to Malcor III. Given all the adventures and starbase layovers, etc that occurred between then, the E-D would have had much faster FTL velocities.
-Mike

[Lucky]

Simple solution; don't go by stardates, go by airdates. The writers and production staff were making a more or less one season equals one year of time, unless stated otherwise in the episode(s).

If you do a search for "Malcor III" here, you'll find that it's already been worked out that it took 5 months time to get from Earth at the end of "Family" to the events of "First Contact", which means a minimum of 4,800 c. And that assumes that the E-D did nothing since leaving Earth except hard travel in a straight line to Malcor III. Given all the adventures and starbase layovers, etc that occurred between then, the E-D would have had much faster FTL velocities.
-Mike

Would it be too much to ask for a link?

[sonofccn]

This appeares to be the earliest and most indepth treaty on the subject. I hope this helps.

Many thanks to Mike of course for doing the work in the first place.