Editing Stardate (section)

== Revised stardate ==
Subsequent ''Star Trek'' series followed a new numerical convention. ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' (''TNG'') revised the stardate system in the 1987 ''Star Trek: The Next Generation Writer's/Director's Guide'', to five digits and one decimal place. According to the guide, the first digit "4" should represent the 24th century, with the second digit representing the [[TV season|television season]]. The remaining digits can progress unevenly, with the decimal representing the  time as fractional days. Stardates of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' began with 46379.1, corresponding to the sixth season of ''TNG'' which was also set in the year 2369. ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' began with stardate 48315.6 (2371), one season after ''TNG'' had finished its seventh and final season. As in ''TNG'', the second digit would increase by one every season, while the initial two digits eventually rolled over from 49 to 50, despite the year 2373 still being in the 24th century. ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' was set around stardate 56844.9. ''Star Trek: Discovery'' traveled to the year 3188, giving a stardate of 865211.3, corresponding to that year in this system of stardates.

On March 9, 2023, ''[[Star Trek: Picard]]'' gave a stardate of 78183.10. This indicates a continuity with ''TNG''. Each stardate increment represents one milliyear, with 78 years in 2401, counted from 2323. The decimal represents a fractional day. Thus, stardates are a composition of two  types of [[decimal time]].  In the twenty-first century, this would indicate 78 years from 1945.