When Does "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989) Take Place?

"Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is a science fiction film written by William Shatner with Harve Bennett and David Loughery that released June 9th, 1989. So when is "The Final Frontier" set? 


It takes place on the fictional Star Trek timeline in the year: 

2287? AD

We know this because early in the movie a Romulan ambassador? specifically says to a Klingon and United Federation of Planets ambassador?, "20 years ago our three governments agreed to develop this planet together." It seems most likely that refers to "Star Trek" season one episode twenty-seven? "Errand of Mercy" (1967), which takes place in 2267? AD. During this episode a temporary peace between the Klingon Empire and the United Federation of Planets was established. 

2,267? + 20 = 2 287?. 

Furthermore, in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" season three episode one "Evolution" (1989), which takes place in 2366? AD, Lieutenant Commander Data declares, there "has not been a systems-wide technological failure on a starship in seventy-nine years." Star Trek fans believe this refers to the moment . 

2,366? - 79 = 2,287?. 

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 the sixth chronological film in the Star Trek universe and can be watched at its timeline point. 

It was adapted to prose in early 1989, as a comic-book in the same year, and as a video game in later 1989. 

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