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Continuity
By TrekGuy 001

It's always amazing when people start talking about "what is established" as if past writers actually put any thought into the continuity.

Depending on what episode you look at, TOS was set either 200 years, or about 800 years into the future. "Space Seed" was one of those episodes that set it at 200. In TMP, the setting was finally placed in the 23rd century by Decker who said that Voyager 6 was launched "over 300 years ago." ST2 re-affirms this fact by the opening text, and by McCoy's wine bottle to Kirk ("2283") which means that the date was at least then.

So, according to the oh-so-established Canon of the series, the 1990s was either in the 26th century, the 21st Century, or, um, the 20th century. Then "15 years later" (a number that also doesn't fit with "canon"), the 1990s was 200 years prior to some time after 2283. Hmm.

Then, finally, and even more perplexing, "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" which takes place over 100 years after "Space Seed," establishes that the 1990s took place sometime in the 22nd century, or about 200 years before that episode.

So much for established continuity. If Coto says that the Eugenics Wars happened "in the past," he is doing continuity a favor, which is more than any past writer ever did with this subject.

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