When Does "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season One (2022) Take Place?

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season one is a science fiction television series showrun by Akiva Goldsman with Henry Alonso Myers that released May 5th, 2022. So when is "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 1 set? 


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

2259? AD 


We know this because Spock says to Captain Christopher Pike, ..."I confess each time I return to space, the weight I carry for the loss of my sister feels heavier.", certainly referring to the disappearance of First Officer Michael Burnham at the end of "Star Trek: Discovery" season two (2019), which takes place in late 2257 AD. So it must be after late 2257 AD. 

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 third chronological TV series in the Star Trek universe and can be watched at its timeline point. 


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