How confident are we in the release dates we have listed? I've noticed some discrepancies between Memory Alpha and other sources.
https://synbible.cbstvd.com/index_series
This is an official document produced by CBS for stations looking to broadcast series in syndication, including the Star Trek series up to Enterprise. I checked the TOS and TAS airdates against ours. There were discrepancies in the dates for "The Cage" and four episodes of TAS ("The Time Trap", "The Slaver Weapon", "The Terratin Incident", and "The Eye of the Beholder"), plus the DS9 dates are out too. Now, I have started a discussion on "The Cage" talk page about using the home media release date instead of the airdate, but the TAS episodes are odd. I checked Wikipedia and it agrees with MA on three of them, but for "The Slaver Weapon" it uses the same date as the syndication bible. And there's still DS9, which also differs slightly on Wikipedia in places.
My point is, I'm curious where we sourced all our dates from. I trust the dates for the modern series because MA was around when they were released, and they shouldn't be too hard to check anyway, being released in the modern internet age. I assume the release dates for the films will be easy to verify too, since film releases are advertised more than an individual episode's first airing. So that leaves the airdates for each episode of the first six series. I can't seem to find any online source that isn't unofficial/user-contributed like MA, Wikipedia, or IMDB. I even got out my copy of the Encyclopedia to see if it had any insight, but it only lists the year of broadcast. The most official source is this syndication bible, but I don't know how trustworthy it is. Is there some master list somewhere we drew on to get these dates? I just don't know why there are discrepancies between different sources. SheridanSinclair (talk) 23:03, 19 August 2025 (UTC)