It took a whole season before one of the non-timey-whimey Prodigy episode logs wound up with a little stardate error.
I used Trekguide and Hillschmidt.de's calculators for this because I know some folks like both. (Trekguide bases its calculations off of a long list of canon calendar-to-stardate calculations. Hillschmidt just assumes that xx000=Jan 1 and xx999 = Dec 31, which I prefer because it makes star dates more predictable.)
Back to the point. Up until the final one, there really hasn't been anything off in the Admirals logs, which are my main source of how much time is passing in Prodigy. Dal only bothers to give a captains log with a star date in a handful of episodes and the one time HJ gives one that I recall is during the temporal nonsense in Time Amok, where we can assume the computer is a bit confused.
By both calculators: We can assume about a month passes between the kids escape into the Neutral Zone, ship repairs, and KJ's Mindwalk/Supernova part 1 log.
Things get fuzzy after that. Supernova part 2 says that there is 1 month between the battle and the kids arrival on Earth, which should mean that the post-Supernova part 2 log, 1 week after their arrival needs to be 5 weeks after the battle...
By both calculators... the time between the admirals logs it's barely 2 days. 😂
I computed some more accurate dates for the kids arrival and the admirals log. You can pop them into your preferred calculator to determine the correct stardates.
A while back I asked folks what their favorite stardate calculators were bc #1, I wanted to see how different they were from each other, and #2 - I wanted to create calendars for each of events in the Voyager series (mostly for me so I can keep track for my fics, but posting in case other people like this too.)
For the first draft, I’ve made a calendar for events in 2371, based on my preferred stardate converter site (which makes the assumption that each SD xx000 = a January 1 and each xx999 = a December 31). Use this converter if: 1, you prefer the assumption that an earth-based organization would use an earth-centric date system, 2. You like the idea that Cmdr. Chakotay is a Leo or 3. You enjoy headcanoning that Endgame happens right before Christmas. Don’t use this converter if you care about a fixed annual Earth date for First Contact Day.
I’m going to make one of these for each year in the series using the hillschmidt SD converter, but I’ve got the dates for and would make calendars for the other 2 converters I looked at (R56 and TrekGuide) if there’s interest. Just let me know.
Click below the cut for 2371 calendar, legend, and episode dates.
How to Read.
Pink Borders - Birthdays
Green Days - Definite days that episode takes place (based on logs and definitive context clues such as whether we see multiple alpha shifts or post-shift / nighttime scenes).
Yellow Days - Potential days within episode timeframe (based on vaguer context clues such as "significant detours", estimated warp travel times, and whether it feels like the amount of stuff happening in the episode should take a while.)
Gray Days - Alternate Timelines where we have no firm stardate
Brown Days - Canon Dates but it's dubious.
What Happens in 2371
April:
The Maquis ship Val Jean is potentially lost in the Delta Quadrant as early as April 9th, accounting for how much time Capt. Janeway would need to collect Tom Paris from New Zealand and embark from DS9. Voyager gets pulled into the Delta Quadrant on April 24th and destroys the array on April 25th.
May:
Kathryn Janeway's 36th Birthday (cuz I had her birth year in 2335 and then the bloomington statue fucked it up... so fuck you statue, I like my 2335 date XD) - May 20th, approaching the first month anniversary being stranded.
June:
Parallax - June 9th-11th
Time and Again - Alternate timeline with no definitive stardate associations. If we accept that episode order determines placement, this could take place anywhere from June 12th to July 13th. For the purposes of this calendar I've assigned the alternate timeline to June 23rd-26th
July & August:
Phage - July 14th-15th
The Cloud July 19th-20th
Eye of the Needle - July 31st to potentially August 4th depending on how long we think it was before they realized the wormhole would take 3 days to degrade.
Chakotay's Birthday - This is estimated based on context clues given in Bliss and will vary depending on your SD calculator of preference. He's probably turning 41 or 42 in 2371.
Ex Post Facto - No definitive dates, but needs to happen between Aug. 5th and Aug. 15th. Lasts at least a few days. I've assigned it Aug. 10th to Aug. 13th
Emanations - Aug 16th-17th
Prime Factors - Aug. 21-25th (depends how long you think they took to travel to and then how long they enjoy Sikaris)
State of Flux - Aug. 29th
September:
Heros and Demons - Sep. 9th-11th
Cathexis - Sep. 25th-26th
October & November:
Faces & Tuvok's ~107th Birthday: Yup, Tuvok’s big day in 2371 overlaps with the first day of Faces based on this SD conversion... so we can assume he definitely delayed any celebrations that year. Faces lasts from Oct 14th- abt. Oct. 16th
Jetrel - The trip to Talaxia is deemed a "sigificant" detour so I've clocked this one in at roughly a week from picking up Jetrel to the end of the episode. Oct. 28th - Nov. 3rd.
Learning Curve - Nov. 5th-10th
Projections - Doc's holodeck log puts this on Nov. 22nd however there's some reason to doubt this - in addition to the log being recorded entirely on a malfunctioning holodeck, Doc. claims to have memories of "the last six months" but by the time of that stardate (on this calculator), he's been activated for nearly 7.
December:
Elogium - Dec. 3rd-4th
The 37s - abt Dec. 20th to 23rd depending on how long you think they toured the 37s’ cities and presuming they did not stay planet side for Christmas
