Mapping the Enterprise's Route in TOS Season 1

#startrek #tos #enterprise

During James T. Kirk's time as captain of the starship Enterprise, the crew visited strange new worlds, sought out new life and new civilizations, and boldly went where no human had gone before. Except...where in the galaxy DID they go?

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00:00 Intro
01:16 Background
02:31 Kirk's Trek in TOS Season 1
16:24 Outro

[netgnostic]

Nice job! About stardates, I remember reading that Gene Roddenberry forsaw questions about the chronological order of the episodes, so he told people that the episodes are definitely not necessarily in order of time. He told people that stardates have a spatial aspect to them, because space and time are not independent from each other, according to Einstein. Therefore, events may not occur in numerical order according to the stardate, if the Enterprise has traveled some distance. He later admitted he was BSing, and just wanted to baffle the smartasses, and to generally make people more curious about science.

[beezelbuzzel]

Jeeze. Imagine zigzagging across town like that to do all your shopping. Great job with the map. The effort is appreciated!

[christopherstephenjenksbsg]

Wow! Well done! Truth be told, you obviously put a lot more thought into this than the original writers, who were pretty much just making it up as they went along. It's amazing you were able to work out a coherent map of the Enterprise's travel.

For what it's worth, I watched the original series when it was first broadcast, as I was already really taken with science fiction. "The Man Trap" was the first episode broadcast, and that salt vampire scared the crap out of me! It was *so* much better than "Lost in Space."

[gregcampwriter]

There's a logistics officer in San Francisco looking at that map and screeching over how much fuel is being used

Tomorrow's memo: How building more ships and hiring more crews would actually save Star Fleet a lot of money.

[JacobyJ]

This is the kind of content I love to see on YouTube.

[while.coyote]

Lol, I bet that ngc321 was indeed supposed to be in that distant galaxy because back then they probably just read the cool number in an astronomy magazine, and not one of them could ever possibly imagine decades later there would be crazy people carefully rebuilding the exact star charts of the enterprises' entire voyage. This was awesome and I hope you're doing it for every season in every series.

[RyuuKageDesu]

A fascinating topic. I wouldn't mind this map showing all of the original series and Next Generation.

[corwinberry]

Dude thank you for all your lore dives.

Never ever lose the network gag. Please.

[QalOrt]

This is very interesting, glad you mapped it out. I would like to see a video on the Rigel System

[MatthewCaunsfield]

Fab project.
I'm impressed that most of the locations even exist on maps!

[baraka]

We all appreciate your hard work researching for this video.

[edwardbloecher]

My God the work and attention to detail here is very impressive!

[megacide]

Wouldn't it be something if Kirk's Enterprise passed through what used to be the Delphic Expanse? Partially following Captain Archer's path during the Xindi Crisis. Flying by locations such as Calindra, remnants of old Xindi homeworld, and Azati Prime.

[DanielSolis]

WOW, you really could make this a whole panel event at a Trek convention.

[sparkus]

An incredible effort! I have the star Trek maps and used to spend more time than I should have looking at them

[johndaley]

Man this journey is mind blowing. I still have some of the original maps. But as all things they need updates 🖖

[christianebersold]

Tyler, you're an outstanding narrator ! I enjoyed your previous shows very much

[carterh]

I think a video on the Rigel systems would be great.

[joshuaunderwood]

I can’t believe I’ve never thought about Star Trek’s universe map before.

[AlexMoffat-ghlq]

Hell f'n yeah. Dude, please more of these episodes when you can fit them in. I just linked my own dad to your channel finally because this vid is so legit even he can't ignore it (he's a boomer, he needs help with YT). Always a fan, keep it up please!