Timeline of Star Trek
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The below is an abridged timeline of events established in the group of television shows and feature films set in the fictional Star Trek universe. More exhaustive timelines are available in both Star Trek reference works and in various fan websites.
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[edit] History of the chronology
There have been several efforts over the years to develop a chronology for the events depicted by the Star Trek television series and its spin-offs. This matter has been complicated by the continued additions to the Star Trek canon, and the scarcity of Gregorian calendar dates given in the show (stardates instead being used).
[edit] Internal evidence in original series
There are few references setting the original series in an exact timeframe, and those that exist are largely contradictory :
- In the episode, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", a 1960's military officer says that he's going to lock Captain Kirk up "for two hundred years", to which a bemused Kirk says, "That ought to be just about right".
- In the episode "Space Seed", it is said that Khan is from "two centuries" ago (1996), placing the episode in the late 22nd century
- In the episode "Miri", it is said that 1960 was around 300 years ago
- The episode "The Squire of Gothos" implies that the light cone of 19th century Earth has expanded to 800 light years, setting the episode in the 27th century.
- The episode "Metamorphosis" establishes that Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive, went missing around 150 years ago, at the age of 87.
The Writer's Guide, as noted in the book The Making of Star Trek, noted that the Enterprise was around 40 years old.
[edit] Early chronologies
The Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology and FASA, a publisher of the first licensed Star Trek role-playing game, chose to take the Space Seed figure, adding a few years to make sure the events of the original series were in the 23rd century. This dating system is followed by other spin-off works in the 1980s, including Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. This timeline system gives the following dates <ref>Goldstein, Stanley and Fred (1980). Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology. ISBN 0671790897.</ref><ref>Johnson, Shane (1987). Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. Titan Books. ISBN 1852860286.</ref>
- the sub-warp ship the UNSS Icarus makes first contact with Alpha Centauri in 2048, and there meets Zephram Cochrane, who has invented warp drive
- the first contact with Vulcans is in 2068
- the Federation is formed in 2087
- the Romulan War occurs in the 2100s
- the first Constitution-class starship is launched in 2188
- the USS Enterprise's five year mission under Captain Kirk lasts from 2207 to 2212
- the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture occur in 2217
- the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan occur around 2222 (dialog in the film says it is set "fifteen years" after season one episode "Space Seed")
- the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home occur on September 21, 2222
The Star Fleet Battles game was published in 1979, with a license only covering the original series. It has since diverged into an entirely separate fictional universe, new additions to which continue to be published. It does not tie into the Gregorian calendar, instead using a "Year 1" of the invention of Warp on earth. Its version of the original series backstory is
- Y1 - warp drive is developed on Earth
- Y4 - Federation is formed by Earth, Vulcan, Andoria, Alpha Centauri
- Y40-Y46 - Romulan war
- Y71 - Starfleet is formed
- Y126 - the Constitution-class is launched (an upgrade from the Republic-class)
- Y154-159 - the events of the original series
See Star Fleet Universe timeline.
[edit] TNG era and Okuda
Press materials for TNG suggested it was set around eighty years after the existing Star Trek, and that it was set in the 24th century. A couple of datapoints from first season episodes contradict the Spaceflight Chronology timeline:
- In "The Neutral Zone", the year is stated by Data to be 2364.
- In "Encounter at Farpoint", the original series character Leonard McCoy makes a cameo appearance. His age is given at 137.
Put together, these datapoints imply that McCoy was born around 2227, ruling out the Spaceflight Chronology's dating of the original series.
A Star Trek Chronology was published in 1993, written by production staff members Denise Okuda and Mike Okuda.<ref name=okuda_1ed>Okuda, Mike, Okuda, Denise (1993). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. Pocket Books. ISBN 0671796119.</ref> A second edition was issued in 1996.<ref name=okuda>Okuda, Mike, Okuda, Denise (1996). Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future. Pocket Books. ISBN 0671536109.</ref> Okuda originally drew up a timeline for internal use by writers, based on his own research and assumptions provided by Richard Arnold. It gives the following dates:
- Zephram Cochrane invents warp drive around 2061 (in order that the SS Valiant can be constructed and go missing two hundred years before "Where No Man Has Gone Before", dated to 2265; the first edition gives 2061, the second edition moves this to 2063 per Star Trek: First Contact)
- the Romulan War takes place in the 2150s (approximately a hundred years before "Balance of Terror")
- the Federation is formed in 2161, after the Romulan War, on the basis that "Balance of Terror" says that it was an Earth-Romulan war, not a Federation-Romulan War
- the first Constitution class starship is launched in 2244, followed by the Enterprise in 2245
- Kirk's five year mission lasts from 2264 to 2269, based on the assumption that the original series is set exactly 300 years after its original broadcast.
- aired live-action Star Trek episodes are dated from 2266 to 2269. The chronology does not include the events of Star Trek: The Animated Series
- the events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture take place in in 2271 (Kirk has been Chief of Starfleet Operations for two-and-a-half years, according to dialog from Kirk and Decker)
- a second five-year mission takes place from 2271 to 2276 (speculation)
- the events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and III take place in 2285
- the events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home take place in 2286
- the events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier take place in 2287
- the events Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country take place in 2293, based on McCoy's statement that he had served on the Enterprise for 27 years, and his absence in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
- Star Trek: Generations is set "78 years" before 2371, thus is set in 2293 and soon after Star Trek VI
There was a gap of 10 years between the broadcast of the last episode of TOS and the release of The Motion Picture, which is supposed to represent 2.5 years: the gap between the release of TMP and the next film was 3 years, but by this chronology the characters have aged 14 years.
Within the TNG era, episodes are easier to date. Stardates correspond exactly with seasons, with the first two digits of the stardate representing the season number. Okuda assumes the start of a season is January 1 and the end of the season is December 31.<ref name=okuda /> The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager televison series and movies have roughly followed "real time", and are set around 377 years after their release.
Since the Chronology was published, it has been generally adhered to by the producers of the show. The Voyager episode "Q2" establishes 2270 as the end of Kirk's five year mission.
The film Star Trek: First Contact and prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise both revisit the early era.
In First Contact, Zephram Cochrane is confirmed as having invented warp drive on Earth, but the date is moved forward slightly to 2063, and it is revealed that Earth's official first contact with an alien species: the Vulcans took place immediately afterwards as a result of this.
Enterprise is set in the 2150s, and ties into the Cochrane backstory. The show uses the Gregorian calendar extensively, making dating easier. Its pilot, "Broken Bow", depicts first contact with the Klingons occurring much earlier than the Okuda chronology anticipated (it suggested a date of 2218, based on a line in "Day of the Dove", noting that dialog in First Contact makes this problematic). It shows the opening of the Romulan war and the start of a coalition between Earth, Vulcans, Andor and Tellar in the 2150s. The final episode, "These Are The Voyages...", finally confirms 2161 as the founding year for the Federation.
[edit] Eugenics Wars and World War III
When the original series of Star Trek was produced, the 1990s was the future, and so various elements of the backstory to Star Trek are set in that era, particularly the Eugenics Wars. The references to the Eugenics Wars and to a nuclear war in the 21st century are somewhat contradictory.
The episode "Space Seed" establishes the Eugenics Wars, and has them last from 1992 to 1996. Spock calls them the "last of your so-called World Wars". In the episode "Bread and Circuses" Spock gives a death toll for World War III of 37 million. The episode "The Savage Curtain" features a Colonel Green, who led a genocidal war in the 21st century. The TNG episode "Encounter at Farpoint" further establishes a "postatomic horror" on Earth in 2079.
The Star Trek Concordance identifies the "Bread and Circuses" figure as the death toll for a nuclear World War III, in the mid-21st century. Star Trek: First Contact firmly establishes World War III ended in a nuclear exchange in 2053, but with a body count of 600 million. The figure of Colonel Green is elaborated on in Star Trek: Enterprise.
Although the back-story of Star Trek contains numerous minor elements that did not occur in history, the Eugenics Wars marked a substantial deviation. The Voyager episode "Future's End" saw the Voyager crew time-travel to Los Angeles in 1996, which, as the Encyclopedia notes, seems entirely unaffected by the Eugenics Wars, which ended that year. The episode acknowledges the issue only by featuring a model of Khan's DY-100-class ship on a 1996 desk. <ref name=encyclopedia>Okuda, Mike, Denise, Okuda with Mirek, Debbie (1999). The Star Trek Encyclopedia. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53609-5.</ref> Khan's spaceship is another anomaly for the timeline, which has a variety of long-lost spaceships being launched between 1980 and 2100, with inconsistent levels of technology (caused by the increasing real life time and also decreased optimism about the pace of space exploration).
A reference in the Deep Space Nine episode "Doctor Bashir, I Presume?" suggests that the Eugenics Wars instead took place in the 22nd century. This was apparently not an attempt at a retcon, but a mistake, as confirmed by Star Trek: Enterprise episodes.
Greg Cox's non-canon two-book series The Eugenics Wars explains the Eugenics Wars in the context of real-life history by representing it as a secret history, and that the truth behind the various civil wars and conflicts in the 1990s was not generally known.
[edit] Cochrane
In the episode "Metamorphosis", it is stated that Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, the inventor of warp drive disappeared 150 years ago, at the age of 87. Given Okuda's date of 2267 for that episode, this puts Cochrane's disappearance in 2117 and birth in 2030. 1980s spin-off material such as the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology posit that Cochrane was from Alpha Centauri originally, and that a sub-warp ship the UNSS Icarus arrived at Alpha Centauri in 2048 to discover he had discovered the theory behind warp drive. The Icarus then relayed its findings back to Earth, the first prototype warp ship was launched in 2055.
The Star Trek Chronology does not hold with this theory, and asserts that Cochrane was an Earth native, who moved to Alpha Centauri later in life. The first edition Chronology notes that Cochrane's invention of warp drive must have been at least 200 years before "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and posits a date of 2061, noting that Cochrane would be 31 that year.
The movie Star Trek: First Contact prominently features Cochrane's first warp attempt. The film is set in 2063, two years after the Chronology suggestions, and therefore by the timeline Cochrane is 33. The actor who played Cochrane in that movie, James Cromwell, was 56 at the time of the film's release. The Encyclopedia notes the age issue, and claims that the Cromwell Cochrane had suffered from radiation poisoning, causing his aged appearance. Enterprise pins down Cochrane's disapperance to 2119, making Cochrane instead 31 at the time of First Contact.
[edit] Ordering of episodes
The production order of original series episodes differered greatly from the original broadcast order. The Chronology assumes the correct chronological order is production order. Episodes of the original series tend to be largely standalone and rarely make references to other episodes.<ref name=okuda />
For later series, the Chronology follows this model, except for obvious exceptions, such as "Symbiosis", an episode shot after Tasha Yar's death in "Skin of Evil" had been filmed, but featuring her. After the debut of DS9, the Chronology instead adopts ordering by airdates.
[edit] Series and movie settings
This table shows each TV series and movie, its year of release or broadcast, and the year it was set in.
| Year | Enterprises | Deep Space Nine | Voyager |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2151 | Enterprise season 1 (2001-2002) | ||
| 2152 | Enterprise season 2 (2002-2003) | ||
| 2153 | Enterprise season 3 (2003-2004) | ||
| 2154 | Enterprise season 4 (2004-2005) | ||
| 2254 | "The Cage" (1964) | ||
| 2265 | "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1965) | ||
| 2266-2267 | Star Trek season 1 (1966-1967) | ||
| 2267-2268 | Star Trek season 2 (1966-1967) | ||
| 2268-2269 | Star Trek season 3 (1966-1967) | ||
| 2271 | The Motion Picture (1979) | ||
| 2285 | II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) III: The Search for Spock (1984) | ||
| 2286 | IV: The Voyage Home (1986) | ||
| 2287 | V: The Final Frontier (1989) | ||
| 2293 | VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Generations (1994) | ||
| 2364 | The Next Generation season 1 (1987-1988) | ||
| 2365 | The Next Generation season 2 (1988-1989) | ||
| 2366 | The Next Generation season 3 (1989-1990) | ||
| 2367 | The Next Generation season 4 (1990-1991) | ||
| 2368 | The Next Generation season 5 (1991-1992) | ||
| 2369 | The Next Generation season 6 (1992-1993) | Deep Space Nine season 1 (1993) | |
| 2370 | The Next Generation season 7 (1993-1994) | Deep Space Nine season 2 (1993-1994) | |
| 2371 | Generations (1994) | Deep Space Nine season 3 (1994-1995) | Voyager season 1 (1995) |
| 2372 | Deep Space Nine season 4 (1995-1996) | Voyager season 2 (1995-1996) | |
| 2373 | First Contact (1996) | Deep Space Nine season 5 (1996-1997) | Voyager season 3 (1996-1997) |
| 2374 | Deep Space Nine season 6 (1997-1998) | Voyager season 4 (1997-1998) | |
| 2375 | Insurrection (1998) | Deep Space Nine season 7 (1998-1999) | Voyager season 5 (1998-1999) |
| 2376 | Voyager season 6 (1999-2000) | ||
| 2377 | Voyager season 7 (2000-2001) | ||
| 2378 | |||
| 2379 | Nemesis (2002) |
[edit] Timeline
This timeline is based on the Star Trek Chronology model described above.<ref name=okuda />
Note: Many of these dates are rounded-off approximations, as the dialog from which they are derived often includes qualifiers such as "over," "more than," or "less than."
[edit] Billions of years ago
- The Guardian of Forever is created. (The Guardian claims in the first-season TOS episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" to have been built before the formation of Earth's solar system, so it is at least 5 billion years old.)
- A humanoid civilization seeds the oceans of many planets, which gives rise to many races, including humans, Klingons, Vulcans, and Cardassians. (This was revealed in the sixth-season TNG episode "The Chase")
[edit] 65 million years ago
- c. 65,000,000 years ago
- One of Earth's dinosaur species, eventually known as the Voth, begin their mass exodus taking them to the Delta Quadrant after Earth is devastated by an asteroid. (Voyager, "Distant Origin")
[edit] 1st millennium
- c. 4th century
- The Vulcan Time of Awakening. In the midst of horrific wars on Vulcan, the philosopher Surak leads his people, teaching them to embrace logic and suppress all emotion. Those who do not embrace this philosophy leave Vulcan and found the Romulan Star Empire. (The seventh-season TNG episode "Gambit Part II" established the Time of Awakening as 2,000 years prior.)
- The ancient Debrune, an offshoot of the Romulans, established an outpost on Barradas III. Other planets settled by Romulans or other Romulan offshoots included Calder II, Yadalla Prime, and Draken IV. (This was described in "Gambit part II".)
- The Dominion is founded in the Gamma Quadrant by the shapeshifting race known as the Changelings. (Weyoun described the age of the Dominion as 2,000 years old in the fourth-season DS9 episode "To the Death.")
- c. 9th century
- Kahless the Unforgettable unites the Klingons by defeating the tyrant Molor and the Fekâlhri in battle, and provides his people with teachings based on a philosophy of honor. (The sixth-season TNG episode "Rightful Heir" said this event was 1,500 years prior.)
[edit] Pre-20th century
- c. 1570
- The ancient Bajorans use solar sail ships to explore their solar system, and at least one even reaches Cardassia. (This was described as 800 years prior to the third-season DS9 "Explorers".)
- 18th century
- A group of interstellar anthropologists called the Preservers visit Earth and fearing the Native Americans to be in danger of extinction, transplant a small group of Lenape, Navajo and Mohicans to a distant planet near an asteroid belt, and provide a powerful obelisk-shaped deflector beam generator to protect them. The natives referred to these aliens as the Wise Ones. (This was described in the early third season TOS episode "The Paradise Syndrome." The date, according to The Star Trek Chronology, is derived by the Native American culture seen in the episode.)
- c. 1871
- The Cardassian Union is established. (Gul Dukat mentioned this in the third-season DS9 episode "Defiant.")
[edit] 20th century
- 1930
- "The City on the Edge of Forever" (TOS)
- 1947
- "Little Green Men" (DS9)
- 1957
- A Vulcan scout ship visits Earth. "Carbon Creek" (Enterprise)
- 1968
- "Assignment: Earth" (TOS)
- 1969
- "Tomorrow is Yesterday" (TOS)
- Apollo 11 lands on the moon
- 1986
- 1992-1996
- the Eugenics Wars (recounted in "Space Seed" (TOS))
- "Future's End" (VOY)
[edit] 21st century
- 2002
- The interstellar probe Nomad is launched. ("The Changeling")
- 2004
- The past events of "Carpenter Street"
- 2009
- The first successful Earth-Saturn spaceprobe mission takes place. ("Tomorrow is Yesterday")
- 2012
- The world's first self-sustaining civic environment Millenium Gate which became the model for the first habitat on Mars, completed in Portage Creek, Indiana. ("11:59", Voy)
- 2024
- The past events of ("Past Tense")
- 2026 to 2053
- World War III begins in the year 2026 (this was revealed on a computer readout screen in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly"). Colonel Phillip Green (seen in The Savage Curtain) was one of the key players in this war; he is ultimately responsible for the deaths of over 37 million people (a figure quoted by Mr. Spock in the TOS episode Bread and Circuses). The war ended in the year 2053 (this was mentioned by Data in Star Trek: First Contact).
- 2032
- Ares-IV the first manned mission to Mars is launched. ("One Small Step")
- 2033 to 2079
- According to Commander William Riker, the Flag of the United States during this time period had 52 stars in the blue field (from the TNG episode The Royale).
- 2053
- World War III finally ends and the Earth is devastated by the nuclear carnage of it. Scientific advancement continues, however.
- 2063
- The past events of Star Trek: First Contact. Zefram Cochrane makes the first human warp flight with the Phoenix. This attracts the Vulcans and they make first contact with humans.
- 2079
- Earth begins to recover from its nuclear war. (date from "Encounter at Farpoint")
- 2088
- Future Enterprise chief science officer T'Pol is born on Vulcan.
[edit] 22nd century
- The professor of history named Berlingoff Rasmussen (who had claimed to come from "the 26th century") in the Next Generation episode A Matter of Time was actually an unsuccessful inventor from "the 22nd century" (the exact date was unspecified).
- 2111
- Jonathan Archer is born in upstate New York on Earth.
- 2113
- As stated in Star Trek: First Contact, war, disease and famine are "gone" on Earth by around this time.
- 2119
- Zephram Cochrane who now is residing on Alpha Centauri sets off for parts unknown and disappears. Some thought he was testing a new engine. After an exhaustive search, it is believed that Cochrane has died. He becomes one of the most famous missing people in history
- 2151
- April 15. A Klingon named Klaang crashed in a corn field in Broken Bow, Oklahoma on Earth, and is shot by a farmer named Moore, establishing First Contact between humans and Klingons.
- April 16. New warp-5 starship Enterprise (NX-01) is launched under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer.
- 2151-2155
- The events of Star Trek: Enterprise take place.
- 2154
- The starship USS Columbia, NX-02, under the command of Capt Erika Hernandez, is launched.
- 2156-2160
- The Earth-Romulan War is fought between the United Earth and its allies, and the Romulan Star Empire, at the end of which the Romulans are defeated at the Battle of Cheron. The Romulan Neutral Zone is established.
- 2161
- The United Federation of Planets is founded by Earth, Tellar, Andoria, and Vulcan. ("These Are the Voyages...")
- The Enterprise NX-01 is decommissioned.
- The United Federation of Planets is founded by Earth, Tellar, Andoria, and Vulcan. ("These Are the Voyages...")
- 2165
- Sarek, Federation diplomat and father of Spock, is born on Vulcan.
[edit] 23rd century
- 2222
- Montgomery Scott is born in Scotland.
- 2227
- Leonard McCoy is born in Georgia on Earth.
- 2230
- Spock, the son of Sarek and the human Amanda Grayson, is born on Vulcan.
- 2233
- James T. Kirk is born in Riverside, Iowa, on Earth.
- 2237
- Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco.
- 2239
- Uhura is born in the United States of Africa.
- 2244
- The pathfinder of the Constitution class, USS Constitution (NCC-1700), is launched.
- 2245
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), a Constitution class vessel is launched under the command of Robert April.
- Pavel Chekov is born to Ukrainian parents.
- 2250-2251
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) completes it first five-year mission and enters refit. Around this time, Christopher Pike assumes command of the starship and begins his own five-year mission as captain.
- 2254
- The events of "The Cage".
- 2256
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) completes its first five-year mission under Christopher Pike and enters refit. Within a year the ship and captain embark on another five-year mission.
- 2263
- Boothby, groundskeeper and counselor at Starfleet Academy, is born.
- 2261-2264
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) completes its second five-year mission under Christopher Pike and enters refit. Within this time the ship's population is substantially enlarged, rising from 200 to 430. Also during this time Christopher Pike is promoted to fleet captain and James T. Kirk is promoted to Captain of the Enterprise and begins an historic five-year mission of deep space exploration.
- 2265
- The events of "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
- 2267-2269
- The events of the original Star Trek. The Enterprise's five-year mission under Capt Kirk becomes the most famous of space exploration in the Federation's history. The ship and its crew become legendary.
- 2267
- Spock discovers that Captain Pike has suffered a freak accident which left Pike deformed and totally paralyzed. (As seen in "The Menagerie")
- The events of "Space Seed".
- 2269
- The events of Star Trek: The Animated Series
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) returns from its five-year mission under the command of Captain James T. Kirk and enters major refit while Kirk is promoted to Admiral at Starfleet Command.
- 2271
- The events of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
- 2271-2276
- The upgraded USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) embarks on a five-year mission under the command of Admiral James T. Kirk. (conjectured)
- 2277
- Around this time the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is relegated to a secondary role as a training vessel in orbit of Earth. (conjectured)
- 2285
- The events of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
- The events of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is destroyed.
- 2286
- The events of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) is launched.
- 2287
- The events of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
- 2293
- The events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) is decommissioned.
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) is launched (Star Trek: Generations)
[edit] 24th century
- 2305
- Jean-Luc Picard is born in LaBarre, France on Earth.
- 2311
- The Tomed Incident. Following the Treaty of Algeron the Romulan Star Empire goes into a period of isolationism until 2364. According to David R. George III in the novel Serpent Among the Ruins the Enterprise-B plays an important role in this event.
- 2324
- Beverly Howard is born in Copernicus City, Luna
- 2332
- Benjamin L. Sisko is born in New Orleans on Earth.
- The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C), an Ambassador class starship is launched.
- 2335
- Geordi LaForge is born in the African Federation, Earth
- William T. Riker is born in Valdez, Alaska on Earth.
- 2336
- Deanna Troi is born on Betazed.
- Kathryn Janeway is born in Indiana on Earth.
- 2337
- Natasha Yar is born in a failed federation colony on Turkana-IV. After the death of her parents, she takes care of her younger sister Ishara, who later joins in the planet's civil war. Tasha is able to leave at age 15, & eventually joins Star Fleet.
- 2340
- Worf, son of Mogh is born on the Klingon Empire homeworld, Qo'noS.
- 2343
- The Galaxy class development project is officially given the greenlight by Starfleet Command. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manuall)"
- 2344
- The Enterprise-C, under the command of Capt Rachel Garrett, is destroyed defending a Klingon settlement on Narendra III under attack from Romulans. ("Yesterday's Enterprise")
- Due to the Enterprise-C 's sacrifice, a new era of more-open communication begins between the Federation & the Klingon Empire.
- 2346
- 2355
- Annika Hansen is assimilated by the Borg.
- 2357
- Worf is the first Klingon to enter the Starfleet Academy.
- USS Galaxy (NX-70637), the prototype Galaxy class is launched.
- 2363
- USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), the third Galaxy class starship (Following the Galaxy and Yamato) is launched from Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit of Mars, and becomes the Federation's new flagship.
- 2364-2370
- The events of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- 2364
- The events of "Encounter at Farpoint". Jean-Luc Picard assumes command of the Enterprise-D and begins an ongoing mission of deep space exploration. First encounter with the Q.
- Enterprise security chief Natasha Yar is killed during a mission. ("Skin of Evil")
- 2365
- First official encounter with the Borg. ("Q-Who?")
- Galaxy-class sister ship USS Yamato suffers a fatal warp-core breach. ("Contagion")
- 2366-2367
- The events of "The Best of Both Worlds". The Borg assimilate Jean-Luc Picard and nearly conquer Earth.
- 2368
- Spock goes undercover on Romulus, working towards a reconciliation of the Vulcans and Romulans. ("Unification")
- 2369-2375
- The events of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The Cardassians end their occupation of the planet Bajor; the Federation discover a wormhole that leads to the opposite quadrant of the galaxy. Deep Space Nine becomes a focal point of galactic trade and activity.
- 2370
- First contact with the Dominion: Galaxy-class starship USS Odyssey NCC-71832, under the command of Capt Declan Keogh, is destoyed by a Jem'Hadar fighter. ("The Jem-Hadar")
- 2371
- The events of Star Trek: Generations. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is destroyed.
- The events of the Voyager pilot ""Caretaker" : USS Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
- 2371-2377
- The events of Star Trek: Voyager.
- 2372
- Sovereign-class USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) launched.
- 2373
- The events of Star Trek: First Contact.
- The Dominion War (2373-2375) begins in late 2373 with the Battle of Deep Space Nine and the station's capture by the Dominion. (DS9 "A Call to Arms")
- 2374
- The Federation Alliance recaptures Deep Space Nine during Operation Return in the Battle of Bajor. (DS9 "Favor the Bold" and "Sacrifice of Angels")
- 2375
- The First Battle of Chin'toka is fought and won by the Federation Alliance. (DS9 "Tears of the Prophets")
- The Second Battle of Chin'toka is fought and the system is recaptured by the Dominion with the help of their new allies, the Breen. (DS9 "The Changing Face of Evil")
- The Dominion War ends in late 2375 with the Battle of Cardassia and a Federation Alliance victory. The treaty ending the war is signed on Deep Space Nine. (DS9 "What You Leave Behind; Parts I & II")
- The events of Star Trek: Insurrection. There are some statements made about negotiations with the Dominion in Star Trek: Insurrection that indicates the movie takes place just days after the end of the Dominion War.
- 2377
- With the help of a future Admiral Janeway, the U.S.S. Voyager returns to the Alpha Quadrant. ("Endgame")
- 2379
- The events of Star Trek: Nemesis, resulting in the presumed death of Lt. Cmdr. Data.
- USS Titan [1]; a Luna Class Starship launches with William Riker as her Captain. Its first mission is that of helping to broker the power strugle on Romulus and to help forge peace finally between Romulus and the Federation.
[edit] References
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