From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxk!crd55611
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Title: Re:  Star Trek dating
Article-I.D.: ihuxk.259
Posted: Mon Dec 27 15:27:20 1982
Received: Tue Dec 28 01:44:50 1982

It seems to me that I read many moons ago in "The Making of Star Trek"
or something that the year of departure from Earth (to begin their five-
year-mission) was 2273.  I can't back this up, but I've had this 
impression for awhile--before I even heard about the Romulan ale.
All this in spite of what was said in "Space Seed"--"You've been asleep
for two centuries."  Assuming the SS Botany Bay left Earth in 1992,
this would approximate Trek's date sometime in the late 22nd Century.

                                        Live long and prosper,
                                        Chuck Dobrovolny
                                        BTL IX
                                        ihuxk!crd55611