Not sure of the exact year, but it's set in the mid to late 1980s.

From what you're saying.... Young Sheldon is 10 in the year 2000 and by the time Big Bang begins in 2007 that would make adult Sheldon 17.

But here is the actual years..... Young Sheldon is 9 when the show started and the year is 1989.... so by 2007 when Big Bang started adult Sheldon was now 27... which sound more believable ...... and when it ended in 2019... adult Sheldon was 39.

And for Charles in Charge and Star Trek.... there's always the re-runs on TV.... Star Trek has been on re-runs forever... it's never taken off.

I suppose that makes sense. Thanks

@Burt_ said:

And for Charles in Charge and Star Trek.... there's always the re-runs on TV.... Star Trek has been on re-runs forever... it's never taken off.

Yep. I first watched most of Star Trek in the '70s.

I just googled and Star Trek began in 1966 and it ran for only 3 years.... and it's never been taken off TV it has always been in re-runs.... I've never been interested in Star Trek... I've only seen one episode accidentally and it was back in 2016... the episode was good but still it didn't interest me to watch the rest of the episodes..... the old shows I have watched in re-runs have been.... Police Woman... Charlie's Angels..... The Brady Bunch... I Dream of Jeannie.... and Bewitched.... oh, and I Love Lucy..... Now TV works differently.... they rarely have re-runs anymore.... unless they are old TV shows from the 50's 60's 70's 80's..... but for newer shows from the 2000's I guess there's the Streaming Services ... which very well act as re-runs.... except you choose what to play and what time to play it.

I have a belief that everybody should watch Star Trek. Not because it's great (it isn't) but for all of the cultural references that stem from it. You miss a lot of BBT jokes for not having seen it.

@Tim-Buktu said:

I've only watched a few of these shows. But in one show Georgie is watching Charles in Charge and in another Sheldon discovers Star Trek (TOS) as a brand new thing. They also are proud of the fact that they get all three network stations.

Now on TBBT Sheldon is roughly 30 years old and on YS he's about 10. So, by rights the show should take place in the year 2000.

Any thoughts?

First of all, the show is titled "Star Trek" that original series garbage was added in the last few years because the morons we graduate from our educational system are too stupid to figure what show we are talking about without it.

Second, Star Trek previewed in the fall of 1966, so they would likely be watching reruns which were all the place on TV for decades after the show was cancelled. Here in Miami, we had Star Trek reruns on two separate broadcast channels at the same time in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

I only called it Star Trek (TOS) because that's how it's referred to now. It's all part of the revolving door of correct terminology.

And, yes, I have heard of reruns. I assumed Sheldon had also and that somewhere in his 9 years of existence as a science nerd he would have come across at least a mention of Star Trek.

Sheldon Cooper is supposed to have been born in February 1980, in Galveston.

Sheldon was 27 at the start of The Big Bang Theory in 2007.

Sheldon was 9 at the start of Young Sheldon which means Season 1 took place in 1989.

The timeline of the show does not correspond to the timeline of the seasons, in other words, each successive season is not set a year later than the previous season.

Sheldon went off to college at age 11, where is now, so he is 11 and the year is 1991.

I would like to add that the writing on this show is really crappy compared to The Big Bang Theory and the portrayal of Sheldon in Young Sheldon drifts far from what we would expect from narratives about his early life. Beyond that, the writers seem to forget that the show takes place from 1989 to 1991 (so far), so they commit all kinds of anachronistic errors. They use modern PC language like personal pronoun errors common to the morons of the PC culture today, such as using they, them, and their, instead of he/she, him/her, and him/her. They use Star Trek: The Original Series which is a modern convention needed because of the basic stupidity of the modern generation, who need to be told that London is in England, Paris is in France, or Los Angeles is in California. Back in 1991, people were still educated and needed no such conventions, which the writers are not intelligent enough to realize.

He is not nearly smart enough nor obnoxious enough, which I can understand because no one would want to watch a show where the star is a massive prick. Georgie and Missy were described by Mary as total idiots, yet Georgie shows business acumen far beyond his years, while Missy, is a nice average young girl with a talent for sports. He supposedly lived in an aluminum house propped up on cinder blocks, but we see a nice home in a suburban neighborhood.

Sheldon is supposed to catch his father cheating on his mother in a couple of years (age 13) and die not too long after that, so I wonder if the show will be cancelled before all that happens, or maybe they will slow the passage of time so that it does not progress more than two years for the rest of the series.

The only way I have been able to enjoy the series is accepting the fact that the writers are basically stupid (an affliction common to almost all Hollywood writers), and that the series must be viewed as a standalone series with only a few ties to its parent series.

I've, so far, only seen a few episodes of this show and I remember him mentioning Star Trek next gen and mentioning a comparison of Spock & Data. I've seen his brother watching "Who's the Boss" and hearing the Dad reference that show. The sister seems to enjoy "Duck Tales" at least early on in the series.

The regular broadcast networks/stations don't need to show a lot of repeats, especially of really old shows. That's why networks - including broadcast stations - such as Me TV, Antenna TV, Retro TV, and H&I (Heroes & Icons) exist. H&I still shows all the Trek series-es 6 days a week. Me TV only shows TOS on Saturdays, last time I checked, but Me TV also cuts things like you wouldn't believe, to run commercials, since shows like TOS were maybe 51 minutes back in the day, but today an "hour" show might be 40 minutes or less.

@WYAdams said:

...the writers seem to forget that the show takes place from 1989 to 1991 (so far), so they commit all kinds of anachronistic errors.

This is incidentally true but your corrections require some correction:

They use modern PC (political correctness) language like personal pronoun errors common to the morons of the PC culture today, such as using they, them, and their, instead of he/she, him/her, and him/her.

This is absolutely wrong which you would know if you learned English grammar in school during that era. They/them/their, referring to a nonspecific or hypothetical 3rd person, has been in use for centuries. The fact that you think this is unique to what you call "PC culture" is laughable in the context of your pedantic attitude and suggests your understanding might've been influenced by reactionary dogma.

They use Star Trek: The Original Series which is a modern convention needed because of the basic stupidity of the modern generation, who need to be told that London is in England, Paris is in France, or Los Angeles is in California. Back in 1991, people were still educated and needed no such conventions, which the writers are not intelligent enough to realize.

A chip on your shoulder is no excuse for passing off speculation for the truth. Star Trek: The Next Generation first aired in 1987 and The Animated Series was already nearly 15 years old by that time. It's almost certain that they were already referring to Star Trek: The Original Series as such by then, not out of stupidity but to differentiate it from the others. Likewise specifying London, England or Paris, France is useful because there are multiple cities in the world that share those names. The convention has nothing to do with lack of education.

...Sheldon is supposed to catch his father cheating on his mother in a couple of years (age 13) and die not too long after that...

Unless you're actually expecting Sheldon to die, that's a syntax error. It might help us if you specify which of the two is the case. I came to this forum to point out cultural/historical anachronisms that I spotted and to see if there were some I missed, or was wrong about. Take it from a fellow pedant: self-doubt is useful for avoiding embarrassment.

Language is a “living thing”.

New words are added….Old words go the way of the dodo….Meanings/usages are altered/changed…..Words from different languages are blended.

Kinda sure that if the Internet and its minions were around way-back-when folks would have been lamenting “the disrespect” shown such words as: "thou" "thee" "ye" “thy” “thine” shalt, etc….

Bottomline: There is no reason to expect language to stay stationary…never has…never will.

As for: anachronistic errors: It’s not something I try to “track”: (1) Because seems to be no way to (accurately) measure the timeline within the series; and (2) What for; and (3) With their gazillions of $$$ and giant staff…if they cared about avoiding any—they would. After all, they are not writing in a vacuum.

As for: Sheldon is supposed to catch his father cheating on his mother in a couple of years (age 13) and die not too long after that. (I have much love for that line—wish I had written it myself—probably will end up (as a cautionary tale) in a course somewhere.)

Forgot one...

Don't have a problem with Mom calling Georgie and Missy "...as dumb as soup."

Reasonably sure she meant academically. Yes, Georgie has a head for business. Yes, Missy is wise-beyond-her-years when it comes to navigating the bumpy road of adult-world issues. But, from the first, the show has shown both as academic lightweights; with Georgie dropping out of school at (what) 16?...17?. Plus, Georgie has been known to drop in some Earth-to-Georgie comments from time to time ...and he didn't get any better with age.

Conversely, “dumb as soup” could also apply to Sheldon if the discussion was about, maybe, “a head for business” or “correctly interpreting the responses/behavior of others.

Sheldon is intellectually gifted; neither of his two sibs comes close to him in that department. So mom calling Georgie and Missy dumb-as-soup in that context is understandable.

IT’S BEEN A MINUTE: But, I think the 'backdrop' of that scene on TBBT is that she had one kid who was driving her crazy/was difficult to deal with because he is a genius; so thank goodness she’d never have to worry about that same kind of bother from the other two.