For the last several years, I've been dismayed at the revised Star Trek Calendar as I'm just not used to it.
After years of playing and getting very attached to ones Star Trek characters, knowing them inside out AND the universe they inhabit, it is slightly annoying to find that the "date" that you oriented yourself in that universe has been revised as an afterthought by Paramount . You feel - however slightly and naively- like you were playing the fool or were "had."
I - and am sure many old FASA gamers and people who used to read the old "Best of Trek" books in the 1980s- still would like to use the pre-TNG calendar dating system in our minds. (I'm not talking about the FASA method of stardating, but the equivalent stardates in our Gregorian calendar.)
I know this is an old old argument, and I'm resigned to the new calendar, but I would like to make a "last stand" for all the old timers who are still not used to the new trek dating (an overall + 60 to 70 odd year jump).
For instance, TOS now is supposed to have taken place in the 2260s, rather than in 2200s. (and STII took place in the early 2280s instead of the early 2220s.)
I know trek is contradictory on this topic, and I understand the counter-arguments. However, I always in the back of my mind used "Space Seed" as the anchor as we actually have a specific date mentioned in that TOS episode (1996).
TOS "5 year mission" --->1996+200 years = 2196 a.d + or - (20 to 30 years).
Unless you assume Khan can't count, something is not right. Khan in STII tells Terrell that his people have sworn to live or die at his command 200 years before Terrell's birth. Now, Terrell is about 50 is in that movie, so if we assume Khan's followers were with him 10 years before the Eugenics Wars, then:
200+(50 -10)+ 1996 = 2236 a.d, which is close to the FASA/80s fandom dating of STII in the 2220s, NOT the newly revised 2280s.
Now, I know that in the very same movie, a bottle of Romulan Ale had a vintage of 2283, so it can be argued either way.
So, yes, I know the vintage reference supports the new dating, but conversely, Khan's remarks support the old dating method.
(I won't even bother to argue that it doesn't make sense for the Romulans to bottle their ale with Earth dates, or UFP smugglers would bother dating illegal hooch.)
So, even though the old dating method has surrendered in the face of Paramount-approved judgement calls on the date, the old dating methodology still has its fans.
It's gone but not forgotten.