From: tallman%ailanth.uucp@wang.com (Robert Oliver)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech
Subject: STAR TREK TIMELINE - PART 1
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 22:43:59 EDT
Organization: Ailanthus Project

The following Star Trek Timeline represents a work in progress. Their are 
plenty of omissions and probably more than a few mistakes/typos. I would 
appreciate any comments (negative or positive), suggestions, additions, 
etc. My goal is for this to be a completely accurate timeline based on 
"official" sources. I have incorporated the timeline (7 pages) into The 
Star Trek Encyclopedia, which is currently an 118-page PageMaker 4 
document which, with externally linked graphics, is about 30 megabytes in 
size! The Encyclopedia , like the timeline, is based almost entirely on 
"official" sources and is an ongoing project. I should be done with this 
little project in about 20 years or so :).
 
SOURCES:
ST:TOS* - Star Trek: The Original Series (* = season)
ST:TMP - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
ST:TMPN - Star Trek: The Motion Picture Novelization
ST:TWOK Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan
ST:TSFS - Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
ST:TVH - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
ST:TFF - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
ST:TUC - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
ST:TNG* - Star Trek The Next Generation (* = season)
NGTM* - Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual (*=page number)
ST:DS9* - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (* = season)
SPEC - Speculation
 
597,630 BC
Circa, The Age of Makto.  The Tkon Empire is destroyed when its central 
star goes supernova. The only known remnant of the empire is Portal 63 in 
the Delphi Ardu System.  ST:TNG1 "The Last Outpost"
 
47,725 BC
Bele begins his hunt for Lokai. ST:TOS3 "Let That Be Your Last 
Battlefield".
 
7728 BC
The Yonadan asteroid is launched. ST:TOS3 "For the World is Hollow and I 
Have Touched the Sky".
 
3834 BC
Birth date of the "immortal" Flint on Earth (Mesopotamia). Flint existed 
on Earth as Leonardo da Vinci, Johannes Brahms and other 
artists/intellects before travelling to Holberg 917-G, where he intends 
to die (circa 2270.)  ST:TOS3 "Requiem For Methuselah."
 
0301-400  4th Century
0360        Circa - The Kaelonians adopt their ritual suicide The 
Resolution, dictating that every member of their race commits suicide at 
age 60. ST:TNG4 "Half a Life"
 
0701-0800  8th Century
 
0765
Circa - The start of the Solari Wars on Solais 5. In 2365 the warring 
factions on Solais ask for Federation help in transporting the mediator 
Riva to their planet to negotiate for peace.  ST:TNG2 "Loud as a 
Whisper".
 
1301-1400  14th Century
 
1367
The mythological "Contract of Arda" is made on Ventax 2. Arda guarantees 
1000 years of peace in exchange for the soul of every lifeform on the 
planet when the contract expires.  ST:TNG4 "Devils Due".
 
1370 
Circa - The Kataan sun goes supernova. The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, 
makes      contact with a probe from Kataan in 2368. ST:TNG5 "The Inner 
Light".
        
1801-1900  19th Century
 
1868
Circa - An unidentified alien race from the Uxmal Star System imprisons 
the consciousness of several hundred prisoners from their world on the 
moon of Mabu 6. ST:TNG5 "Power Play".
 
1893
August 12. Data arrives in San Francisco (from 2369) after being 
inadvertantly caught in a time dialation. ST:TNG5 "Times Arrow, Part 1".
 
1901-2000 20th Century
 
1930
Circa - Using the Guardian of Forever, Leonard McCoy accidentally travels 
(from 2270) back in time to the 1930s and alters history. James Kirk and 
Spock follow and are able to correct the alteration and return to their 
own time. ST:TOS1 "The City On The Edge Of Forever".
 
1939
Approximate birth date of Frank Oppenhouse on Earth. ST:TNG1 "The Neutral 
Zone".
 
1959
Approximate birth date of Claire Raymond on Earth. ST:TNG1 "The Neutral 
Zone".
 
1967
An encounter with a black star sends the Enterprise back in time to Earth 
(from 2270.) After removing evidence of their appearance, the Enterprise 
is able to return to its own time. ST:TOS1 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday".
 
1968 
The Enterprise travels back in time to study how the Earth avoided an 
atomic war during the 1960s (from 2271.) ST:TOS2 "Assignment: Earth".
 
1976
September 6 - Voyager 2 lands on the Mars plain Utopia Planitia, the 
future site of Starfleets Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards.
 
1978
Circa(-) - The Voyager 6 probe is launched from Earth. The probe 
disappeared into a "black hole" and was presumably found by an alien 
intelligence that modified the probe and sent it back to look for its 
creator on Earth. ST:TMP.
 
1986
The renegade James Kirk and crew time travel to Earth (from 2286) to 
capture a pair of Humpback whales needed to answer the call of an 
orbiting probe that is threatening to sterilize the planet. ST:TVH.
 
1992
"Chicago Mobs of the Twenties" is published. ST:TOS2 "A Piece of the 
Action". Khan Singh comes into power on  Earth. ST:TOS1 "Space Seed".
 
1994
Approximate date of death for Claire Raymond, Ralph Oppenhouse and L.Q. 
Sonny Bonds. ST:TNG1 "The Neutral Zone."
 
1995
Circa - The Eugenic Wars on Earth. ST:TOS1 "Space Seed", ST:TWOK.
 
1996
The SS Botany Bay , carrying Khan Singh and his followers in cryogenic 
freeze, is launched from Earth. ST:TWOK.
 
2001-2100  21st Century
 
2001
Circa(+) - Humpback whales are hunted into extinction on Earth. ST:TVH.
 
2020
The Nomad space probe is launched from Earth, its mission to seek out 
alien life forms. The probe would eventually meet and combine with an 
alien probe named Tan-Ru. This malign combination would be discovered and 
destroyed by the Enterprise in 2271. ST:TOS2 "The Changeling".
 
2024
The Irish Unification. ST:TNG3 "The High Ground".
 
2030
Circa - Birth date of Zefram Cochrane on Earth. ST:TOS2 "Metamorphosis".
 
2036
The New United Nations declares: "No Earth citizen can be made to answer 
for the crimes of their race or forbears". ST:TNG1 "Encounter At 
Farpoint, Part 1".
 
2040
Circa - Television begins its decline as a popular entertainment medium 
on Earth. ST:TNG1 "The Neutral Zone."
 
2043-2047
The Mind Control Revolts on Earth. ST:TMPN
 
2050
Circa - The process of cryogenics falls out of favor on Earth. ST:TNG1 
"The Neutral Zone."
 
2061
Zefram Cochranes engineering team develops a prototype CDP (continuum 
distortion principle) engine capable of light         speed travel. 
NGTM-54.
 
2065
Approximate date Zefram Cochrane relocates to Alpha Centauri colony. 
NGTM-54.
 
2070
Circa - The galactic survey vessel Valiant is destroyed while attempting 
to leave the galaxy. ST:TOSP "Where No Man Has Gone Before". 
 
2079
The New United Nations has been abolished by this time. ST:TNG1 
"Encounter At Farpoint, Part 1".
 
2101-2200  22nd Century
 
2120
Circa - Zefram Cochrane (87) disappears from Alpha Centauri. ST:TOS2 
"Metamorphosis".