January 8, 2005

Canonical history

All the hip kids are criticizing Wikipedia for its potential to be unreliable. After all, what could everybody in the entire world know?

It turns out, not much. You would think a geeky encyclopedia would at least get stuff about Star Trek right, but no!

The Federation was founded in Y4 (Y1 being first contact between Humans and the Vulcans, whom had already been in contact with other races....

Y40-Y46 First Federation-Romulan War: The Federation first encounters the Romulans who are seeking to retake their home planet of Vulcan...

Y71 The Federation forms Star Fleet.

You can debunk this nonsense just from the plot synopses on startrek.com. The movie Star Trek: First Contact establishes that Y1 is 2063. When the series Enterprise starts in 2151 (Y89, by Wikipedia's notation), the Federation doesn't exist. What's worse, Starfleet does exist!

UPDATE: Whoops.. my bad. Apparently this was all in reference to the "Star Fleet Universe", invented by some game company -- not the Star Trek universe.

Posted by Jeffrey at January 8, 2005 11:19 PM
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