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Originally Posted by Flyndaran
Trelane was overtly a confused child. Why must his words on Earth history that we know is askew be taken at face value?
He could easily have mixed up all sorts of periods making any single statement about his aesthetic incomplete at best.
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Jaeger pointed out that Gothos was 900 light years from Earth, and that Trelane was essentially looking through a powerful telescope. Kirk says that Trelane was looking at events 900 years past. They're the ones who establish the date, not Trelane.
The issue is simply that the producers hadn't established exactly when
Star Trek took place, so various writers sometimes slipped in their own ideas. Consistent world-building was not a point of the original
Star Trek series; the Federation, Starfleet, and Earth of the future were just a scaffolding on which to hang various plots and ideas.