When Does "Star Trek: Short Treks: The Trouble With Edward" (2019) Take Place?
"Short Treks: The Trouble With Edward" is a science fiction comedy short film written by Graham Wagner that released October 10th, 2019. So when is "The Trouble With Edward" set?
It takes place on the fictional Star Trek timeline roughly in the year:
We know this because the line spoken by Admiral Quinn at the very end that Tribbles "made their way into Klingon space" strongly implies it happens before "Star Trek" season two episode thirteen "The Trouble With Tribbles" (1967), which takes place in 2267 AD.
~2250s AD
We know this because the line spoken by Admiral Quinn at the very end that Tribbles "made their way into Klingon space" strongly implies it happens before "Star Trek" season two episode thirteen "The Trouble With Tribbles" (1967), which takes place in 2267 AD.
More specifically, Captain Christopher Pike appears as captain of .
Although the famous "stardate XXXX.X" captain's records that open most episodes and some films were mistaken for years on the Gregorian calendar, there is no one-to-one relationship between them. As identified in the biography "Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek": "They marked off sections on a pictorial depiction of the known universe and extrapolated how much earth time would elapse when traveling between given points, taking into account that the Enterprise's warp engines would be violating Einstein's theory that nothing could exceed the speed of light. They concluded that the 'time continuum' would therefore vary from place to place, and that earth time may actually be lost in travel. 'So the stardate on Earth would be one thing, but the stardate on Alpha Centauri would be different,' Peeples says." so they are relative to long distance travel and not an absolute calendar. HOWEVER, actual years on the Gregorian calendar began to be used later.
It is an early chronological short film in the Star Trek universe and can be watched at its timeline point or as an extended flashback before the TV series "Star Trek: The Original Series" (1966).
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